“These dumb assholes don not have a clue.
It is a small group of chest thumpers on here to run off the rest of the people who use this place as a source for news links, that is if one can find a reliable source of news anymore.
You are right. War is coming to this country. And when it hits, they are going to have a real problem to address in their little comfy quarters. Society will break down and they will find themselves on the front lines in their own little comfy homes.”
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The pathetic refrain from the “NATO could destroy Russia in three days” crowd would be amusing if it weren’t for the fact that we Americans would suffer the consequences if such abject stupidity was ever acted upon.
Yes, Russia could nuke NATO; but why would they want to when they are so able to defeat NATO with conventional weapons.
🌐💥🇫🇷 About the French military exercise ORION
In November 2022, France announced the largest military exercise since the end of the Cold War, codenamed ORION, which will take place in spring 2023.
The Macron administration is presenting them as a response to geopolitical challenges, stating that France is ready for global warfare.
❗️The Rybar team managed to speak to French generals who shared their assessment of such bravura statements.
🔻 What is the essence of the exercise?
The manoeuvres will take place from late February to early May 2023 in several phases.
▪️First, a sea and air landing will take place over three weeks in southern France, attempting to establish a beachhead in a fictional country called “Arnland”.
There, the notional militia, supported by a hostile state called Mercury, will destabilise the situation.
For this operation, 7,000 soldiers will be mobilised. The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, two amphibious helicopter carriers and some 20 surface ships and submarines will also be involved.
▪️The second phase will simulate the invasion of the Mercury at Arnland.
The manoeuvre scenario is not known in detail, but it is assumed that part of the national territory will be occupied by a foreign power.
Russia or Turkey are seen as hypothetical adversaries. And the French army is to retake this territory, fighting local guerrillas loyal to the foreign power.
▪️ One division will be involved in the manoeuvres - 10,000-12,000 men, which is half the French army.
By comparison, every year France organizes exercises at the company level - 120 men, sometimes at the regiment level - 600 men, and much more rarely at the brigade level - about 3,000 men.
The objectives of the current exercise are to prepare the French army for:
➖ high-intensity combat operations, given the experience of the conflict in Ukraine
➖ information warfare
➖ anti-guerrilla warfare on French territory.
🔻 The exercise has not yet started but has already been the subject of strong criticism within the French army for two reasons:
➖The scenario of the exercise implies that the army will be used against the French population.
➖Organising manoeuvres on this scale and achieving the stated objectives is knowingly impossible, and the generals are aware of this.
▪️ The French army is no longer able to manoeuvre large units because it does not have the necessary equipment: Tigers helicopters and Leclerc tanks are faulty due to lack of spare parts and CAESAR guns have been transferred to Ukraine.
▪️In the opinion of the top officers, the only objective of the exercise was to occupy the French army.
With the end of the Barkhan mission and the downsizing of operations in the Sahel, the French army, one of the most interventionist in the world, has been left virtually idle.
The Elysee Palace believes the army must not be allowed to get bored or there will be a risk of a coup d’état.
▪️ Nevertheless, the media have already begun to prepare the ground for a positive image of the exercise, which is sure to be declared a success when it is over.
The French Chief of Staff, General Thierry Burkhardt, was quoted in a parliamentary hearing and was immediately picked up by the media.
He said that “if the French army has to fight a high-intensity war, we are ready to do it right now”.
▪️A year ago he claimed exactly the opposite. Because Burkhardt, like most French generals, knows that the French army, by its design since the 1960s, is designed only to engage in local conflicts. Only Africa has been suitable for its use all these years.
In case of a full-scale invasion, the aim of the French army in Europe is to win 2-3 days to be able to use nuclear weapons. This is the basis of the whole French military doctrine called dissuasion.
🔻 The goal of the modern French army has never been to wage a classic high-intensity war. Watching the attempts to pass off wishful thinking and create ideal exercises at least in a picture will be very interesting.
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That is not true. Russia, historically can defend itself upon its own territory but, they can not fight and win a conventional war outside of its area of influence.
So that leaves the question..will the NATO countries risk a NON conventional war when Russia feels it is under grave threat. I feel that NATO will take that risk until...NATO dissolves.
The USA is NATO. Without our contributions, NATO ceases to exist. And right now, under this current administration and their ignorance, the march to complete unrestricted war is rapidly advancing.