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France sends combat troops to Ukraine battlefront
Asia TImes ^ | 04 May 2024 | Stephen Bryen

Posted on 05/05/2024 8:29:22 AM PDT by Drew68

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To: Drew68

May the cluster munitions of the Russians be upon them.


81 posted on 05/05/2024 10:33:42 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: DownInFlames

Vietnam invites France to remember Dien Bien Phu defeat after 70 years

https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20240504-vietnam-asks-france-to-join-remembrance-of-battle-of-dien-bien-phu-defeat-after-70-years


82 posted on 05/05/2024 10:34:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PIF
the highly precise French gliding bombs AASM-250 Hammer.

You need an air force for those.

83 posted on 05/05/2024 10:36:20 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: DesertRhino

DeGaulle may very well have saved France from Bolshevism in 1945.

A lot of people are not aware that right after the liberation of Paris, the Communists were trying to eliminate their rivals through bogus show trials, and trying to label their enemies as German collaborators. DeGaulle put a right stop to that.


84 posted on 05/05/2024 10:36:51 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: All

FFL is 9000 people and only 20% are French. They won’t face domestic pressure from funerals.


85 posted on 05/05/2024 10:43:10 AM PDT by Owen (.)
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To: DesertRhino

France surrendered to Hitler early in WW2.


86 posted on 05/05/2024 10:43:59 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: DownInFlames

The French were slaughtered at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam.


87 posted on 05/05/2024 10:46:42 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: Drew68

Get rid of that idiot Macron and put Marine LePen in there. That would solve a host of problems in France including the Muslim one.


88 posted on 05/05/2024 11:00:03 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: kiryandil

You need an air force for those.

They are using MiG-19s now and the newly-arrived F-16s will be pitching in, if they have not already.

Then, slowly but surely, your best friends will be pushed back.


89 posted on 05/05/2024 11:12:40 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Drew68

The FFL is exceptional light infantry. The problem is, they are light infantry.


90 posted on 05/05/2024 11:31:33 AM PDT by Salvavida
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To: politicket

I don’t believe you can cite a single instance of the FFL “dropping their rifles” and running from any fight. They may all die in battle, but I wouldn’t anticipate anyone running from the Foreign Legion except its enemies.


91 posted on 05/05/2024 11:47:03 AM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king (Just a Texas Playboy at heart)
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To: dforest

yes and yes NATO was already involved, so yes.


92 posted on 05/05/2024 11:49:01 AM PDT by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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To: PIF
The F-16s of your Joe Biden had best be stationed in NATurd countries.

Even so, the NATurd pilots flying the "Ukrainian" F-16s will come up on the "training accident" death lists quite often...

93 posted on 05/05/2024 11:49:07 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: SaxxonWoods

“The US worked hard for years to achieve war between Russia and Ukraine...”

Russia invaded Chechnya, Georgia, Crimea, and Ukraine but it’s the US’s fault?

FYSA:

I don’t entertain KGB/GRU trolls or their gullible Forum dupes. Slaves and demoralized sycophants are no compatriots of mine.

Putin isn’t invading Biden’s space, he’s invading Ukraine. None of Biden’s ppl or houses have been destroyed. Millions of Ukrainians’ have.

You got tricked out of your morality with a simple confidence trick KGB’s been using on territories and peoples for over a century! Get lost. You are a weak minded, psychologically damaged person. You are a man without morals or a country.


94 posted on 05/05/2024 11:59:05 AM PDT by Justa
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To: dvan

Just what does Macron have to gain by this?
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The little man Macron is upset over Russia pushing France out of Africa. Much written about this on French news…..little coverage in the US MSN ( another Russian WIN).

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-africa-russia-emmanuel-macron-vladimir-putin-mali-central-african-republic-burkina-faso/

“ How Moscow chased France out of Africa….PARIS — The French flag was lowered for the last time in the Bila Zagré military camp in Burkina Faso on Sunday, marking the end of 13 years of a presence by French armed forces in the West African country.

France’s withdrawal from Burkina Faso comes at a time when you’re less likely to see the French tricolore in the capital Ouagadougou than the Russian red, white and blue, marking a rapid and stunning loss of influence for the former colonial power…..

The withdrawal from Burkina Faso * is the third setback for French President Emmanuel Macron* who promised a new approach to Africa when he came to power in 2017, one based on a “partnership of equals.”

In recent months, France has also had to leave Mali and Central African Republic, raising fears of a domino effect across the continent as Macron winds down his country’s decade-long Barkhane operation to fight against jihadists in the Sahel…..”

France and the US is angry African nations are aligning with Russia and China.


95 posted on 05/05/2024 12:32:13 PM PDT by delta7
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To: delta7

More: another Russia win.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/03/13/putin-says-france-resents-russia-for-stepping-on-its-tail-in-africa_6614492_4.html

“Putin says France resents Russia for ‘stepping on its tail’ in Africa
Vladimir Putin said Emmanuel Macron’s vocal opposition to the war in Ukraine was an ‘emotional’ reaction because of certain French-speaking African countries increasingly turning toward Russia…”

US and western hegemony is dying….China/ Russia is turning the tables through TRADE, not war, are you listening Joe.


96 posted on 05/05/2024 12:36:47 PM PDT by delta7
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To: delta7

By the way, the US just handed over it’s base to the Russians in Niger…..

https://theduran.locals.com/index.php

…..the US war cheerleaders aren’t liking this….losing western Africa’s huge uranium and resources markets to Russia…..wake up folks….senile Joe is destroying the US with his sanctions and wars.

Almost comical…..except for the fact the US is heading into “ irrelevance”.


97 posted on 05/05/2024 12:43:31 PM PDT by delta7
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To: DesertRhino

“but French soldiers are damn good.”

Yes, but they aren’t sending French soldiers.

“Probably the best in Europe by far.”

Almost every European nation, even Italy, could make this claim.

And this: “The British fled the battlefield.”

What would you have had them do? Stay in the trap and surrender?


98 posted on 05/05/2024 12:47:35 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: delta7

Francophone Africa is in the process of becoming less Francophone or completely NOT Francophone. The French are very proud of their language and are humiliated when its influence withers away.


99 posted on 05/05/2024 12:59:47 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: House Atreides

The French withdrawal ( expulsion) is secondary, the US being expelled from Niger and Chad is noteworthy. Ironic, you can pull up pictures of RUSSIAN soldiers now inhabiting the US built base in Niger….another mini Afghanistan debacle….

…of course little is being reported by western MSM about another senile Joe failure.


100 posted on 05/05/2024 1:05:39 PM PDT by delta7
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