France Wants To Fight Russia In Ukraine, by Moon of Alabama

Macron resurrects Napoleon. From Moon of Alabama at moonofalabama.org:

The little French rascal is leaning over his skis a bit:

Sending Western troops to Ukraine “cannot be ruled out,” French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday after hosting a conference in Paris where European leaders discussed the prospect.

There was “no agreement this evening to officially send troops onto the ground but we cannot exclude anything,” he told reporters.
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“We will do anything we can to prevent Russia from winning this war,” Macron said. “And I say this with determination, but also with a collective humility that we need to have, in the light of the last two years.”

After two years of following a losing U.S. strategy against Russia one would expect a little more humility than that.

None of Macron’s colleagues agreed with him:

Germany, Britain and other European countries said on Tuesday they had no plans to send ground troops to Ukraine, after France hinted at the possibility, and the Kremlin warned that any such move would inevitably lead to conflict between Russia and Nato

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