AUTHOR: TYLER DURDEN
Kremlin claims NATO-owned France rapidly becomes "direct" associate in the war in Ukraine, which threatens to drastically exacerbate tensions and further escalate conflict, possibly outside Ukraine.
French president Emmanuel Macron committed on Friday to Transfer of Mirage fighters to Kiev, and to make a French training program for Ukrainian pilots. He said this erstwhile Zelenski and Biden were in France, commemorating and participating in events on D-Day's 80th anniversary. Macron even went to the point that he repeated his appeal to Western countries to be willing to send troops straight to Ukraine.
Spokesperson for the Kremlin Dmitri Doggykov reaction as follows:: "Macron demonstrates absolute support for the Kiev government and declares ready for a direct thighFrance In the armed conflict.
"We consider these statements to be very, very provocative, fueling tensions on the continent and not conducive to anything positive," said Pieskov on Friday at the margins of the global economical Forum in St. Petersburg.
Macron pushed forward unharmed, despite repeated Moscow warnings, asnotedThe Washington Post:
The comment made at a press conference with the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenski is the latest signal that France and another allies may now be inclined to deploy NATO troops on Ukrainian dirt – an thought that any allies, including the United States, have long considered as possibly escalating.
Macro calledon Friday, Ukraine's request for training in the country "justified"And he said a fewer partners had already agreed.
"We intend to usage the next fewer days to finalize the coalition as wide as possible" -He said.
Some reports say that president Biden has talked Macron distant from sending western shoes to Ukraine; however, Biden's message seems to be simply that specified action cannot be taken without consensus in NATO.
Indeed, specified a plan would entail the hazard of launching a treaty on NATO's common defence with Article 5 and would lead to an armed confrontation between Russia and the Western alliance.
Macron stated that Russia cannot "win" the war; but, like all another NATO leaders, He never defined what he meant by that.. possibly he wants to fight Russia to a halt and then a compromise peace. However, in private talks, French officials simply repeat the U.S. line that only Ukrainians can make peace – and Ukrainians conditions Peace requires not an impasse, but a complete military defeat of Russia.
Europe's request for self-defense should beOf course.When they fell into Biden's administration, European governments woke up very late and realized that the next president might be Donald Trumpand that US engagement in Europe can drastically reduce. Indeed, given the problems of the US in the country and in the mediate East, as well as the increasing tension with China, this commitment is likely to decrease in the future, whether Trump is elected or not.
However, Macro's hope that Russia's alleged threat will prompt Europe to unite militarily behind French leadership greatly exaggerates both the French military force and the European readiness to follow in the footsteps of France. After yearsCutBudgetThe French army is besides weak to intervene in Ukraine without full US support. erstwhile French president Nicolas Sarkozy tried to embraceleadershipin "humanitarian intervention" in Libya, in just a fewer weeksHe begged reluctant president Obama toacquisitionNATO operations, in fear of humiliating English-French defeat.
As regards recourse to another European countries, hawks Macron's position on Ukraine is aimed at partners from east Europe. However, these governments arecountries with the most profoundly rooted determination to resist European strategical autonomy and keep to the very end the closest possible alliance with the United States.
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source:https://www.zerohedge.com/
