France sends combat troops to Ukraine battlefront
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France sends combat troops to Ukraine battlefront
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That's literally declaration of war.
I wonder what will Russia say about it. I think the most proper response would be to just kalibrate them without even acknowledging their presence.
They're going to salami slice their way into the war. The goal being that no piece of salami they cut is large enough to warrant sending nukes.
Before you know it they've normalised open warfare and bypassed the MAD deterrent.
They could’ve given that salami to a cat instead, but no
Or since France hasn't declared war they can decide the French troops fall outside of Geneva protections like America does with literally everyone it drone strikes
They're not even French. They're Foreign Legion, mercenary assassins and enforcers for the French colonial regime. |
Edit: Tunnelvision is right. As a matter of international law the FFL are not considered mercenaries. I was wrong.
The French foreign legion are not mercenaries, they are soldiers fully in support of the French colonial project (many of them unfortunately are subjects of French colonialism as well) who are looking to gain French citizenship through military service. This is important because if they were simply mercenaries then Russia could attack them without thinking about it. That is not the case here, these are French troops wearing the French flag engaging in offensive operations under direction of the French president. This is a big step even though it’s a small number of troops. They are being sent to Ukraine because these troops were pushed out of Africa which is where France gets most of their uranium for their energy security. That is partially the reason France outspoken about sending troops.
Oh even better if they're PMC it never applied to them to begin with
They are not PMCs they are French troops.
No, they're the French Foreign Legion, which is much worse.
I expect that's the most likely scenario.
It would be funny if they saturation bombed the whole area then hit every single thing coming in or out for the next month to make a point.