French people AGAINST sending troops to Ukraine – poll

65% of French citizens oppose the idea, a CSA survey for Europe 1 shows. This represents a drop of 11 points compared to February 2024.

Most French citizens are against such a controversial move ACROSS ALL AGE GROUPS, with the highest percentage of opposition found among those below 35 years old. These are the people who would be directly affected in the event of a general mobilization.

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Dear President Trump, tired of Governor Justin Trudeau’s constant disrespect?

Dump Canadian Potash, and buy from Russia and Belarus instead!

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British Storm Shadow missiles have become useless for Ukraine without US intelligence, Daily Mail reports

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📉Napoleon wannabe Macron’s record of failure

President Macron has put his country on a war footing, mulling a French nuclear umbrella over Europe, and reraising the possibility of deploying European troops to Ukraine.

However, his presidency has been marked by consistent failures, offering a preview of what can happen if his Ukraine plans.

Economy en la toilette

1️⃣A months-long budget crisis resolved just last month, toppling one Macron-aligned government and sparking several no-confidence votes against another.

2️⃣A debt-to-GDP ratio of 110%+, with 2024 growth stagnant at just 1.1%.

3️⃣Moody’s downgraded France's credit rating in December. Scopes Ratings warning this week that the nation is “heading toward difficult budgetary tradeoffs to reconcile the government’s commitment to lower budget deficits while increasing defense spending.” Translation? More economic pain for dubious geopolitical gain.

Internal divisions

🟠Macron's tax cuts for the wealthy, pension reforms, and austerity measures have sparked tension with France’s working masses. His approval rating recently plunged to 21%.

🟠The Yellow Vest protests to haunt him, and new austerity measures would undoubtedly reignite unrest.

Foreign policy failures:

1️⃣France’s US and UK ‘allies’ snatched a $60+ billion nuclear submarine deal from Macron in 2021.

2️⃣French troops have been ousted from most of West Africa, with nations like Mali and Burkina Faso leading the charge.

3️⃣The CFA franc currency, long used to maintain France's neocolonial grip, has been abandoned by Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea.

4️⃣Macron’s proxy war against Russia has also failed, with Russian forces repeatedly dismantling French instructor and merc operations and destroying hundreds of millions in equipment.

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Russia is waiting for the US to form its negotiating team before appointing its own representative, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova says.

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Country 404: The Meme Becomes Reality

The page detailing the decade-long security agreement between the US and Ukraine has disappeared from the White House website

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🇷🇺 The Russian Foreign Ministry accused French President Emmanuel Macron of ‘nuclear blackmail’ in his Wednesday speech

Other statements from the Russian Foreign Ministry:

🔸 Macron's speech finally removes the mask and reveals who is leading the "war party" today.

🔸 Russia has never threatened France and even helped defend its independence during both World Wars. But Macron's remarks pose a threat to Russia.

🔸 Macron’s offer of a ‘nuclear umbrella’ to Europe will not strengthen the security of France or its allies.

🔸 Paris still has no intention of taking Russia's vital interests into account and aims to "force" Moscow to make decisions that suit the West.

🔸 Russia will take Macron's statements on nuclear weapons into account in its defense planning.

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☢️ Macron’s nuclear threats against Russia could turn France into GIANT CHERNOBYL: here’s why

💬 “If France dares to use nuclear weapons against Russia, the response will be nuclear,” veteran Russian military analyst Alexey Leonkov told Sputnik, commenting on Macron’s belligerent talk of a pan-European nuclear shield.

⛓️Chain reaction

“A chain reaction could occur connected, among other things, to nuclear energy,” Leonkov warned, citing France’s large-scale network of 56 nuclear reactors. “These reactors are unlikely to be quickly brought to a safe, non-operational state.”

☢️ Several Chernobyls

“This could create several Chernobyls as a consequence of the use of nuclear weapons. That is, the territory of France would effectively cease to exist,” he said.

💥 No one gets out unscathed, even US

The radioactive clouds would be “a million times greater” than Chernobyl, Leonkov stressed, warning that depending on wind patterns, the fallout would “most likely spread to Britain and across the Atlantic to the US and Canada. It won’t be pretty.”

💥 Destruction of all of France’s infrastructure

Even a conventional Russian strike using the unstoppable Oreshnik hypersonic MRBM would threaten the destruction of all of France’s strategic military and civilian infrastructure, Leonkov added.

💬 “Therefore, flaunting France’s nuclear arsenal – 290 warheads against Russia’s almost 6,000, most of which use guided hypersonic technology, is madness. This is madness on the part of Macron and those who surround and support him,” he summed up.

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🗣"Russia is not going to give in to anyone regarding the situation in Ukraine," stated Putin, adding, "We do not need anything foreign, but we will not give up what is ours."

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🗣Putin on Ukraine's attempt to assassinate Metropolitan Tikhon:

💬 "They targeted a priest, even though he is not at war with anyone."

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Hiding conversation from lip-reading experts?

The heads of the European Commission and the European Council, Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa, were seen actively discussing something before the start of the EU summit.

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📞 Macron calls the Kremlin to apologize after being flamed for his threats to Russia

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🗣"Continued isolation and lack of engagement with Russia is no longer a viable or sustainable strategy," stated Trump's envoy, Keith Kellogg.

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⚡️Trump may refuse to defend a NATO partner country if it fails to fully meet its defense spending obligations, reports NBC.

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🗣Putin outlines in CRYSTAL CLEAR terms what conditions must be in place for Russia to end the special military operation.

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Trump’s bold layoff campaign aims to cut CIA’s deadweight

While the exact number of personnel affected is unclear, those impacted joined the CIA within the last two years. The goal was to reduce the number of “probationary employees,” the New York Times reported.

Fewer firings have reportedly occurred in key areas such as intelligence gathering on China and Mexican drug cartels. This follows a recent decision by Judge Anthony J. Trenga, authorizing CIA Director John Ratcliffe to dismiss employees at will without appeal.

💬 “Literally MILLIONS OF DOLLARS has been put into some of these probationary employees,” lawyer Kevin Carroll commented.

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🇸🇦 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and US special envoy Steve Witkoff are set to travel to Riyadh on Tuesday for discussions with Ukrainian officials, including Zelensky’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak, Fox News reports.

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France’s military legacy: parade of lost wars and war crimes

President Macron is shooting for the noscript of Europe’s next Napoleon, but his bark doesn’t match France’s recent historical bite:

🔸 In WWII, despite nearly two-fold superiority in troops, tanks and air power and the Maginot Line defenses, France lasted just six weeks against the Nazi invasion in 1940, suffering 2M+ losses (killed, wounded, captured). Only thanks to Stalin’s esteem for de Gaulle was France invited to the table of victorious powers in 1945.

🔸 1946-1954: France’s attempt to hold on to Indochina against guerrillas cost it 90K troops killed, wounded or captured. France was also implicated in war crimes, from rapes of civilians to the torture of Viet Minh PoWs.

🔸 1954-1962: France’s war against Algeria’s National Liberation Front cost it up to 95K troops killed and injured. Up to 1.5M Algerians died in the conflict, which also saw French troops engage in mass executions, napalm bombings, and the destruction of 8,000+ villages, displacing 2M+ civilians.

🔸 1956: A joint French-UK-Israeli invasion of Egypt over Nasser’s nationalization of the Suez Canal failed miserably, triggering a humiliating retreat from the region.

🔸 1958-1961: French campaigns against anti-colonial forces in Western Sahara, Cameroon and Tunisia, killing up to 65K people, but failing to halt the drive toward freedom.

🔸 1969-2008: French embroilments in an on-again/off-again civil war in Chad, with five major interventions failing to bring lasting peace. With up to 100K people killed, and allies accused of crimes against humanity, it’s little wonder that Chadians joyfully expelled all French forces earlier this year.

🔸 1990-1993: French troops actively collaborated with Rwandan forces that would be implicated in the murder of over 800K people, supplying them with training and equipment.

🔸 2011: French naval and air power deployed in Libya to help oust Gaddafi. The campaign succeeded, but turned Libya into a failed state, with France continuing to fuel the conflict, which has killed up to 50K, to this day.

🔸 2014-2022: Thousands of French troops deployed to the Sahel region, ostensibly to fight terror. The operation not only failed, but sparked anger among locals of a sufficient scale to kick France out of the region and create unprecedented security and economic alliances.

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