Posted on 03/27/2026 9:44:07 AM PDT by marshmallow
According to Catherine Vautrin, France is taking a "defensive" position, seeking a diplomatic solution, particularly regarding the Strait of Hormuz
PARIS, March 27. /TASS/. The United States launched its own military campaign against Iran without consulting allies and now demands that everyone join them, not exactly the best way to foster cooperation, French Armed Forces Minister Catherine Vautrin told Cnews.
"When the war began on March 1, the US did not see fit, for example, to call France to share their plans, <...> they acted alone, and today they are asking everyone to join them," she said. According to her, France is taking a "defensive" position, seeking a diplomatic solution, particularly regarding the Strait of Hormuz.
Meanwhile, Paris is looking after its defense interests, having deployed the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to the Eastern Mediterranean, reinforced its six Rafale jets in the UAE with an additional six, added air defense systems, and strengthened security at French military facilities, including the evacuation of family members of stationed personnel from the region.
The United States and Israel launched a military operation against Iran on February 28. Major Iranian cities, including Tehran, were struck. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced a retaliatory operation, targeting sites in Israel. US military bases in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were also hit. On March 11, Khatam al-Anbiya, the central headquarters of the Iranian army, said that Iran would not allow any oil cargo related to the United States and its allies to be transported through the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that accounts for a fifth of global oil exports.
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Let me guess, we should treat TASS as more reliable than the alphabet networks here, lol.
So maybe we shouldn’t have helped when the Nazis invaded your chickenshit arse. I guess what is evil is your domain?
France surrendered during the Syrian civil war that Obama started. They have given up everything to appease islam and have nothing left to give.
“Let me guess, we should treat TASS as more reliable than the alphabet networks here, lol.”
There are some here that do.
With allies like the f***ing French who needs enemies?
Parasitic Europe has a long hard road ahead of it as we start to cut off all of our Americans subsidies that have kept those ungrateful bastards afloat since the Communist President Wilson pulled us into the World War I.
I will enjoy the spectacle of the grifting, inbred, aristocratic pukes who rule the French struggle and be deposed by their own people.
My understanding is that they are being asked to assist in reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which is in France’s best interest. If they don’t want to help, then we should just start charging tolls/tariffs on oil flowing through the strait.
This site is going to hell.
FWIW, France, Great Britain and other NATO countries actively patrolled the Red Sea to keep the Suez Canal open during the Houthi attacks and they have troops stationed at the Suez
Popping off and then asking for help looks weak and unwise.
TASS = Putin.
It's in French so you won't understand a word but that's OK. This is simply to demonstrate that TASS did not fabricate this story and that your "shoot the messenger" shtick is as empty as your own heads.
Does anyone here think this TASS report isn’t accurate? They’re quoting a senior official in the government of France.
Whatever you say, Achmed.
Dear Earth:
The United States has taken on the hard part. We decided that now was the time to act (something you never would have done). We have done the heavy lifting. We aren’t demanding anything of you that you shouldn’t have been participating in from the get-go.
Despite that, you’re now being invited to participate in the ‘after-party’: the chance to help maintain a future that we have established. We have prepared the landscape, we have paved the road. We just want you to plant a few road signs and cut the grass occasionally.
If you just do those few things, then you can share in the spoils... which you’ll do anyway... but maybe these few chores will let you do so with a clean conscience and a small participation trophy.
Sincerely,
Your Daddy, the USofA
I guess France can defend Ukraine in its own.
OK. Tell ya what. Don’t help. That’s fine. You see, we have our own oil and don’t need the Persian Gulf oil at all. We’ll be fine if it gets blocked off for an extended period of time.
France is stuck with that vile wicked reprobate Macron until May 2027. Being just another installed tool of the WEF globalists, all having the spirit of anti-Christ empowering them.
Of course like Obama, this kind is greatly concerned with losing any nation on the world stage that works so hard to destroy Israel.
Since it's TASS, you could've said "Vatnik", "commie", "Putinist", or some other traditional Russian flavor instead of "Achmed". :p
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