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Macron reaffirms possibility of sending troops to Ukraine
France 24 ^ | May 2, 2024

Posted on 05/02/2024 3:48:41 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed he did not rule out sending troops to Ukraine, saying the issue would "legitimately" arise if Russia broke through Ukrainian front lines and Kyiv made such a request, in an interview with the Economist published Thursday.

The Economist said Macron gave the interview after delivering a keynote speech last week where he declared that Europe is "mortal" and could "die" partly due to the threat posed by Russian aggression after its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

"I'm not ruling anything out, because we are facing someone who is not ruling anything out," said Macron when asked if he stood by comments earlier this year not excluding the sending of Western troops that sent shockwaves around Europe.

Some analysts believe that Russia could be on the verge of launching a major new offensive in Ukraine.

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: toolate; tothelastukrainian
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1 posted on 05/02/2024 3:48:41 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Macaroni is all mouth


2 posted on 05/02/2024 3:50:03 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: MinorityRepublican

He’s going to need a war to keep himself in power.


3 posted on 05/02/2024 3:53:18 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Macron is the leader of the free world.


4 posted on 05/02/2024 3:53:47 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: MinorityRepublican

That would be a declaration of war.


5 posted on 05/02/2024 3:55:34 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: MinorityRepublican

Oh that sounds like a really smart move. Right at the moment there are equatorial African colonies are breaking loose. Plug all your money and army into the worthless money pit of Ukraine that will do nothing to enrich France. And not have them available for critical French interest. Lol


6 posted on 05/02/2024 3:56:46 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Brilliant
Macron is the leader of the free world.

Macron is all we got.

7 posted on 05/02/2024 4:00:32 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Macron is all we got

Who is this 'we' you reference?

8 posted on 05/02/2024 4:06:41 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: NWFree

il aime écouter le son de sa propre voix


9 posted on 05/02/2024 4:08:53 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Euros are such parasitic @ssholes !

Their play is to provide a token force themselves, while the USA provides an actual capable military force, bears all the risk, covers all the costs

The USA in Ukraine would have the same problem as Ukraine itself: lack of air defence, lack of AD inventories and insufficient AD current production..


10 posted on 05/02/2024 4:09:35 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Does Macron know that because of drones the massing of troops is a bad idea? Will he mass what few troops he sends as a show of force and get most of them killed by a single missile strike?


11 posted on 05/02/2024 4:11:04 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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We’ve never been in that situation before. I doubt it’ll happen because Putin will threaten the use of nuclear weapons.


12 posted on 05/02/2024 4:14:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: thegagline

Just like Biden.


13 posted on 05/02/2024 4:20:55 PM PDT by Liberty Ship ("Lord, make me fast and accurate.")
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To: NWFree

The French landed troops in Ukraine in 1918-1919 during the Russian Civil war. It did not go well.


14 posted on 05/02/2024 4:40:44 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Annie Savoy : The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Loud words with no substance.


15 posted on 05/02/2024 4:54:15 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Guess France has too many breathing white males.

Enough of this bs killing off of white men. Thats all the puppetmaster above want.


16 posted on 05/02/2024 5:00:32 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Better you than us, Frenchie.


17 posted on 05/02/2024 5:02:43 PM PDT by Allegra (Less propaganda would be appreciated. )
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To: bravo whiskey
Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War

The demographics were better back then for the Russian Empire.

18 posted on 05/02/2024 5:02:51 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Yeah, they’ll be right behind the Americans . . .


19 posted on 05/02/2024 5:24:21 PM PDT by MCSETots
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Macron should indeed send 100,000 French Surrender Monkeys to help
Ukraine.


20 posted on 05/02/2024 6:27:45 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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