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Macron ‘panicked’ over leaked Ukraine reports – Marianne
The Press United ^ | March 13, 2024

Posted on 03/13/2024 12:05:58 PM PDT by Kazan

A series of classified documents has debunked Western narratives about Kiev’s battlefield prospects

French President Emmanuel Macron’s talk about maybe sending troops to aid Kiev may have been spurred by three assessments produced by the French military that painted a dire picture of the Ukraine conflict, according to the magazine Marianne.

The reports, which have somehow found their way into the weekly’s possession, argued that Ukraine wrecked its Western-trained force in the failed 2023 offensive, has run out of men to mobilize, and that its recent loss in Avdeevka shows it can’t even hold the line against Russia.

“Ukraine cannot win this war militarily,” concludes the first report, written in the fall of 2023, following Kiev’s disastrous ground offensive. It praises the Russian forces as the new “tactical and technical” standard of how to run defensive operations and debunks the media myth of “meat assaults.”

For the West to continue pursuing a military solution in Ukraine would be “the most serious error of analysis and judgment,” the classified document said, according to Marianne.

Sending French troops to Ukraine would be “unreasonable,” one senior officer wrote. “Make no mistake, up against the Russians we are an army of cheerleaders!” he added.

The second report, outlining the prospects for 2024, says that Kiev needs 35,000 men per month but is “recruiting less than half” of that number, while Russia enlists 30,000 volunteers monthly. Meanwhile, the 2023 offensive “tactically destroyed” half of Kiev’s 12 combat brigades.

“The West can provide 3D printers to manufacture drones or loitering munitions, but will never be able to print men,” the report said.

One solution it advised was sending Western troops to Ukraine to carry out support tasks in the rear, freeing the Ukrainians for frontline duty.

The second report also acknowledged the Western special forces and “soldiers in civilian clothes” had a far greater presence in Ukraine than officially acknowledged, including “quite a few British,” as well as French naval commandos training the Ukrainians.

The third and latest report, which had the French observers “in cold sweat,” described the Battle of Avdeevka as a possible “rout” of Ukrainian forces. It described how Russia created “hell” for the Ukrainian troops by using massive glide bombs to inflict more than 1,000 casualties per day. The French document also described the Ukrainian retreat on February 17 as “sudden and unprepared.”

At the end of February, Macron made an argument to NATO members that all options for helping Ukraine should be “on the table,” implying the possibility of sending ground troops. The idea was publicly repudiated by most members of the US-led bloc, however.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: europe; france; globohomo; killkillkillforpeace; macron; micron; russia; ukraine
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To: wildcard_redneck

See, it’s the perfect time to bomb them all; when their asses are in the air.


41 posted on 03/13/2024 3:05:21 PM PDT by 5th MEB (1)
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To: BenLurkin

The Russian MIC (Military Industrial Complex) is very happy as well.


42 posted on 03/13/2024 3:12:17 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: TheBattman

Kind of reminds me of Stalingrad on or about 2 February 1943!

NAZI’s got their asses kicked by the RED’s


43 posted on 03/13/2024 3:14:34 PM PDT by 5th MEB (1)
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To: House Atreides; All

Fact 1:
There are 400.000 Russian combat troops invading and killing people in Ukraine, right now.

Fact:2:
There are ZERO French and Ukrainian combat troops invading Russia.

According to common sense justice the rapist it the one responsible for the rape, not the victim of the rape. Right?

We must force the Russian BORDER-rapists to stop raping the Ukrainian BORDER. Right?

Trump would support that policy. Why? Because he loves nations which dare to fight to protect their BORDERS. Trump likes BORDERS. Respected BORDERS.


44 posted on 03/13/2024 3:19:33 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: McGruff

“If you only get your news from western approved sources your are woefully uninformed. But go ahead, Ukraine is wining there.”

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I have another take on this : if you only get your news from Kremlin approved sources you are uniformed.


45 posted on 03/13/2024 3:33:50 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: Timber Rattler; House Atreides

“The loss of Ukrainian and Russian lives in that war needs to stop.”

- Putin can stop it right now by stopping all attacks against Ukraine and pulling all his troops back into Russia. -

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

And the Kremlin must pay war damages for all the villages, towns cities and the 1000’s of Ukrainian schools it has destroyed in Ukraine. And it must pay for all the civilian deaths it has caused.


46 posted on 03/13/2024 3:38:10 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: Kazan

Well, this certainly got the Zeepers panties in a bunch. Here they are flailing with their usual delusions and fantasies, and imagining they can “debunk” a report merely by acting prejudiced towards it. :-)


47 posted on 03/13/2024 4:11:39 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: USA-FRANCE

Sounds like another one of Aesop’s fables


48 posted on 03/13/2024 4:35:36 PM PDT by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: Kazan

Micron the homo Satanist may spell the destruction of France.


49 posted on 03/13/2024 4:44:53 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: grey_whiskers

LOL at “Quikkie Haley”

************

“None of these” Haley.


50 posted on 03/13/2024 4:48:37 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: EnderWiggin1970

😂


51 posted on 03/13/2024 5:11:31 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: USA-FRANCE
There are ZERO French and Ukrainian combat troops invading Russia.

You can get that right. Ukraine invaded Russia yesterday:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/12/anti-putin-paramilitaries-claim-incursion-into-russia-from-ukraine

Ukraine-based armed groups, made up of pro-Kyiv Russian volunteer fighters who oppose Russian President Vladimir Putin, said on Tuesday they had entered the Kursk and Belgorod regions.

52 posted on 03/13/2024 5:13:55 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: USA-FRANCE
Um, the Russians has been the side that consistently sought peace -- with the Minsk Accords, in 12/21 before the war began when they came to the Biden regime and in Turkey in March of 2022 when a peace deal was nearly reached and killed by Boris Johnson.

NATO has never sought peace once since the Maiden revolution.

You and Macron do nothing but lie.

53 posted on 03/13/2024 5:16:28 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

There are ZERO French and Ukrainian combat troops invading Russia.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I repeat : Zero French and Ukrainian combat troops are invading Russia.

Period.


54 posted on 03/13/2024 6:03:51 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: Kazan

“Ukraine-based armed groups, made up of pro-Kyiv Russian volunteer fighters who oppose Russian President Vladimir Putin, said on Tuesday they had entered the Kursk and Belgorod regions.”

Last I checked, militias and partisans are not combat troops.


55 posted on 03/13/2024 6:25:11 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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To: Kazan

Sending the Ukrainian Soldiers into the meat grinder the Russians had prepared for months was criminally stupid without achieving air superiority.
The Biden administration team are idiots to encourage it.
Of course, it fits their overall goals of DIE(Death to Indigenous Europeans) and reduction of CO2.


56 posted on 03/13/2024 7:33:17 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjamin Franklin.)
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To: Timber Rattler

https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?itc=dlp_domain_whois&domain=marianne.net

It’s a FRENCH MAGAZINE that RT.com picked up the English translation.

You are literally lying. You’re INTENTIONALLY lying. That’s the tactics of the leftists. You’re either a leftist or an idiot. Which is it?


57 posted on 03/14/2024 1:48:09 PM PDT by spacewarp (Want freedom? Reject Dems.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Press United and RT reported on an article from the French magazine Marianne.

https://www.marianne.net/

Stop trying to discredit the reporting by claiming it is a Russian news source. That’s a blatant lie.


58 posted on 03/14/2024 1:58:33 PM PDT by spacewarp (Want freedom? Reject Dems.)
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To: HamiltonJay

“The west should be ashamed of themselves for this entire mess as far as I’m concerned.”

No. The EU, NATO, Merkle, Obama and Biden should be ashamed. Literally, this was a proxy war to wash Biden’s and Obama’s and Kerry’s and Romney’s dirty money.

The biggest string puller in all this is the man who has made BILLIONS on this and that’s George Soros (his disgusting son, made of pure evil, Alex, is also involved).


59 posted on 03/14/2024 2:02:20 PM PDT by spacewarp (Want freedom? Reject Dems.)
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To: USA-FRANCE
Yes this is an example of Ukraine invading Russia:

Ukraine-based armed groups, made up of pro-Kyiv Russian volunteer fighters who oppose Russian President Vladimir Putin, said on Tuesday they had entered the Kursk and Belgorod regions.

And, of course, what those in question did had the full approval of the Zelensky regime.

60 posted on 03/14/2024 4:35:35 PM PDT by Kazan
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