Posted on 03/16/2024 2:57:57 PM PDT by delta7
The French paper Marianne has published excerpts by secret military documents that are causing an uproar in Europe and the world, for dealing with the situation on the ground in Ukraine without the disguise of propaganda that pervades almost all reports on the subject.
In the piece, the French journalists wanted to understand what happened to President Emmanuel Macron to make him consider sending troops to Ukraine?
These ‘confidential defense reports’ explain the ‘panic’ at the Élysée palace.
When it comes to the perspective of sending troops to fight the Russian forces, they were incredibly blunt in their assessment.
Several French soldiers, interviewed by Marianne, say they ‘fell out of the closet’. ‘We must make no mistake, facing the Russians, we are an army of cheerleaders!’, mocks a senior officer, convinced that ‘sending French troops’ to the Ukrainian front would simply be ‘not reasonable’.”
The greatest takeaway from the documents is that ‘a Ukrainian military victory now seems impossible’. The Russian forces are waging ‘a slow and long, high-intensity war based on the continued attrition of the Ukrainian army’.
The defense reports harshly criticize the ‘disastrous’ planning done by western military and Ukraine:
The planners believed that as soon as the first Russian lines of defense were crossed, the entire front would collapse […] These fundamental preliminary phases were carried out without taking into account the moral strength of the enemy on the defensive’.
[…] These Ukrainian ‘Year II soldiers’ were launched to attack ‘a Russian fortification line which proved to be impregnable’. Without any air support, with Western equipment that is disparate and less efficient than the old Soviet equipment (‘obsolete, easy to maintain, and capable of being used in degraded mode’), the Ukrainian troops had no hope of breaking through. Let us add ‘Russian arch-domination in the field of electronic jamming penalizing, on the Ukrainian side, the use of drones and command systems’.”
Once they analyzed the situation militarily, the French military stated that ‘the Russian army is today the tactical and technical’ reference for thinking about and implementing the defensive mode’.
The Russians also knew how to manage their reserve troops, to guarantee operational endurance.”
The documents paint a realistic picture of the deadly Russian forces. Long gone is the idea that the Russian army sends its troops to the slaughter without remorse.
The most serious error is to continue to seek ‘exclusively military solutions’ to stop hostilities.
The officers heard by Marianne know that it’s clear, given the forces present, that ‘Ukraine cannot win this war militarily’.
“Zelensky would need 35,000 men per month, he is not recruiting half of them, while Putin draws from a pool of 30.000 monthly volunteers.”
The failed 2023 offensive ‘tactically destroyed’ half of Kiev’s 12 combat brigades
Furthermore, the risk of Russian breakthrough of the Ukrainian defensive lines is very real.
“Kiev had to abandon the town of Avdeevka, in the northern suburbs of Donetsk, which until then had acted as a fortified bastion. ‘It was both the heart and the symbol of Ukrainian resistance in the Russian-speaking Donbas […] Despite the emergency dispatch of an ‘elite’ brigade – the 3rd Azov air assault brigade – Kiev is not capable of locally re-establishing a sector of the front which is collapsing.”
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Not only do the Western sources tend to ‘underestimate’ the Russians, but they are also followers of the practice of ‘Maskovkira’, ‘consisting of appearing weak when We are strong’.
Most importantly, the Ukie losses will be revealed, and they will be appalling.
Western media and governments had better “ come clean” on their failed narrative, the world has lost enough trust in them already.
The French are masters of military retreats so we should listen to them
IBONFRB [In Before Our Northern FR Banderite]
Ganeemeed, izzat you?
CC
Spirit de Corps is worth a thousand Germans, said the French in 1938.
Spirit de Corps is worth a thousand Germans, said the French in 1938.
The Gateway Pundit is a mouthpiece for Russian propaganda (or haven’t you noticed that?)
What is there in France’s history that would suggest that it has the skills or brainpower to make sound military predictions for any war, large or small?
Why did France plant all the trees along both sides of the Champs-Elysses?
So the conquering armies can march in the shade.
According to you, all non western MSM and any truth contrary to your Hopium is Russian propaganda, despite the dozens of geo-located video out there.
Time to come to the realization western MSM is lying, Ukraine is spent, done, finished…..no amount of western welfare arms or cash can save them. As the Ukie Nazis say, “ Kaput”.
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This war was lost before it ever began. When the Pentagon and the group think tanks went all in on the narrative of a paper Russian bear that would collapse after the first hard poke, Project Ukraine was doomed. I was stunned to see how pervasive that fantasy was, especially here.
“Newest US NATO member, Sweden, showing off their military might. Must be a requirement for all NATO nations, including France. Russia has nothing to worry about.”
Har har. They used to be called “The Hedgehog of the Baltic”. I guess not so much anymore.
Previously posted by Red Badger on 03/14/2024
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4224171/posts
” ‘a Ukrainian military victory now seems impossible’. “
We knew this before it started.
After billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives, and national destruction . . . NOW they say it.
The world’s leaders are stooges, thieves, and evil bastards
It’s The People vs The State.
Choose your side.
From the French point of view it’s impossible to win ANY war. They’re the only country to have a civil war where both sides managed to lose.
This article was posted already by a Kremlin-friendly Freeper two days ago.
It’s based on blatantly fake Kremlin “news”, coming directly from their disinformation factories.
Trump would call this : FAKE NEWS!
Agreed.
There are no French leaks! Totally invented delusion. Period.
The Marianne “news-link” to the so called article never mentions ANY “French leaks” at all. It talks about other general problems concerning Ukraine and Russia.
Again, NOTHING about any “leaks from France.
Secondly, the Gateway Pundit is a clownish source... to say the least...
You remember when the Gateway Pundit promised the “KRAKEN” that would make Trump sail through the election and win? They talked about the KRAKEN every day remember? What a joke. Pure disinformation. It was based on nothing.
Shutting down churches, halting elections, censoring the press, pushing abortion rights and that video exemplify what the Capitol District elites are fighting for in Ukraine. Meanwhile with all their warts the Russians at least are fighting to uphold family values to rebuild their culture, are having elections, and trying to retain the foundations of civilization. It’s not hard for real Americans to know which side to fight against if the Capitol District insists on going to war.
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