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French President reaffirms possibility of sending troops to Ukraine (www.france24.com)

submitted 6 months ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/europe@feddit.de

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

Macron said "if Russia decided to go further, we will in any case all have to ask ourselves this question" of sending troops, describing his refusal to rule out such a move as a "strategic wake-up call for my counterparts".

He described Russia as "a power of regional destabilisation" and "a threat to Europeans' security".

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[–] XenGi@lemmy.chaos.berlin 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

He can't do that. If French soldiers march into the war officially, Putin would fight against a NATO state. Making it mandatory for every other NATO state to also jump in. Viola we have WW3.

[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That's literally not how it works, anything else is Russian fearmongering.

Also a bunch of countries fucking up a single country who can't even conquer their neighbor does not a world war make. If it did, the Gulf War would be called WW3 already.

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago

If French were to send soldiers to Ukraine those would be French soldiers, not NATO soldiers. Attack against them is not an attack against a NATO country. Countries like Turkey and USA have been involved in their own conflicts aswell where they have had their troops attacked and this haven't triggered article 5 either. That's not how it works.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 4 points 6 months ago

It's not that simplistic.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

It's a very very risky escalation not because of NATO, but because France is a nuclear power in its own right. And if nukes start flying around, NATO or no NATO, WW3 has already started.