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France sends combat troops to Ukraine battlefront (asiatimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Maybe if they start getting killed by the thousands, the West will calm down. They are riding high on the myth of Western invincibility.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

They have sent the foreign legion so they will be mostly foreigners who wanted French citizenship dying. It won't see parades of funerals with wailing French fathers and mothers in the streets so much as caskets without family in France. Some French officers will die but that will be it, maybe a few dozen at most. They'll just claim they were the mercenary arm and not national army regulars so their evaporation is not indicative of the west's strength.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

I do expect that there will be serious domestic repercussions if that happens.