In France, the military power of Russia was disdained

January 13 2022 15

The world media continue to comment not on the January events in Kazakhstan, where the crisis has actually ended, but also try to advance their own view of what happened, relying on the responses of the expert community.

In particular, many "discovered" for themselves the very fact of the existence of the military bloc of the Collective Security Treaty Organization - the CSTO, which celebrates its XNUMXth anniversary this year. Until now, the alliance has not been particularly noticeable in the global arena, and no one has shown significant interest in it.

Among the range of opinions, there are also quite emotional ones. The French newspaper Le Progrès, headquartered in Lyon, spoke in a rather dismissive manner about the military bloc with the participation of the Russian Federation.

Founded in 2002 (sic), just a few months after the start of the international intervention in Afghanistan led by the Americans, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) includes Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

- reminds the article, not being ashamed of a rough substitution of facts.

In 2009, the CSTO received a rapid reaction force of up to 20 people, and the UN recognized its peacekeeping force, which by that time numbered 000.

At the same time, the CSTO is viewed as "a form of Russia's opposition to the North Atlantic Alliance," where Moscow and its modern army have a noticeable influence on its allies, believes David Teurtrie, one of the researchers of Eurasia problems interviewed by the publication.

As the guarantor of security in Central Asia, the organization depends entirely on the ability of the Russian army to project power. Without Russians, the CSTO makes little sense

- he continues.

A similar opinion, but in an even more pejorative form, is shared by Pascal Ausseur, a former high-ranking officer of the French armed forces and now the CEO of the Mediterranean Foundation for Strategic Research (FMES). The Collective Security Treaty Organization, he said, is a "mini-NATO", "a remnant of the Warsaw Pact with Russia instead of the United States at its head."

But in reality, the retired military of the French Republic continues, the North Atlantic Alliance with its 70 years of experience is far ahead of the CSTO, because NATO manages to "coordinate military instruments" of all its 30 member states, while the CSTO is "very far from that." ...

According to the expert, "Russia's military weight" cannot be compared to "the American locomotive," even if Moscow manages to "build out of itself a great world power", while the Russian GDP is only "slightly higher than that of Spain." ...

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Dust

+6

13 January 2022 08: 46

This is the case when it is not the economy that decides in the war, but the one who has the best weapons and the training of the military. The Frenchman is well aware that Russia will not capture Europe. But, with its missiles, Europe will easily turn "minced meat". And the fact that at the moment Russia has the best missile forces in the world is an axiom.
Bulanov

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13 January 2022 09: 18

How long did the French hold out against the Germans in 1940? That's it!
If they think that even now the Cossacks will jump on them and demand - Bistro, bistro! - they are wrong. This time the Cossacks will sit at the rocket consoles at home.
Alsur

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13 January 2022 09: 25

Quote: Dust
This is the case when it is not the economy that decides in the war, but the one who has the best weapons and the training of the military. The Frenchman is well aware that Russia will not capture Europe. But, with its missiles, Europe will easily turn "minced meat". And the fact that at the moment Russia has the best missile forces in the world is an axiom.

You are wrong, the economy wins the war, which is why we won the Second World War.
1. S WITH
  
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  13 January 2022 16: 19
  
  Yes, without the Stalinist military economy and Soviet ideology, there was no Victory in 45g. capitalist backward Russia would surrender like France (despite the traditionally high morale of the Russian army) - you cannot fight without a strong rear and modern weapons, now the presence of nuclear weapons allows the capitalist Russian Federation to destroy NATO 20 times in a row, and for a war with the Papuans of the CIS, the presence of conventional types of weapons
2. Ksv
  
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  14 January 2022 01: 10
  
  In a non-nuclear war...
Navigator

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13 January 2022 09: 34

in the event that the war takes place without the use of nuclear weapons, we have no chance of winning, since the economy and human resources of Russia and the West are not comparable. The economy will decide everything!
1. alexey alexeyev_2
  
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  13 January 2022 21: 21
  
  But all-out propalism is not necessary. They use such a term as an unacceptable level of losses. They are unlikely to exchange their well-fed existence even for a lousy war game ..
2. Ksv
  
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  14 January 2022 01: 13
  
  The economy decides, I agree. But they may simply not be in time, And we can be in time.
S WITH

+6

13 January 2022 16: 09

it's always funny when Western clowns compare the GDP of the Russian Federation with the countries of the bankrupt of the West))
these clowns always do not agree that their GDP is a consequence of their debts, that is, the more debt, the more GDP, namely, the Western countries exist only thanks to the printing of junk currencies that they exchange for exports (china goods and resources), since they themselves produce little in Europe. and if the world refuses to sell its goods for their candy wrappers, the West will literally be left without pants, food, electronics, resources, etc.
1. Psychedelic Soldier
  
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  15 January 2022 04: 37
  
  That's right!
boriz

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13 January 2022 16: 37

And if after 3 - 4 months they start the same turmoil with their "mambets"? Who will they turn to for help? These will not be yellow vests, even the army is unlikely to cope. Do they have their own CSTO with the same promptness and efficiency? They will wash off with blood. Not for nothing in 2015. these crowds flooded the EU. So someone needed it ...
Will NATO help them or their wonderful GDP (not our V.V. Putin, of course)?
Mantrid Machine

+3

13 January 2022 16: 52

Yeah, let this General remember first Borodino, and then the Magenot line. Who put it in your pants?
Oh yes, I forgot, they also snatched from Suvorov in Switzerland
alexey alexeyev_2

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13 January 2022 21: 08

Whose cow would moo? We remember how you screwed up in 40. Like I.V. Stalin, out of mercy, let you sign the surrender of Germany. How did you screw up in Mali. How did you get kicked out of Vietnam.
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Psychedelic Soldier

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15 January 2022 05: 10

Quote: alexey alexeyev_2
Whose cow would moo? We remember how you screwed up in 40. Like I.V. Stalin, out of mercy, let you sign the surrender of Germany.

As they say, when Field Marshal Keitel came to sign the act of surrender of Germany and saw the French there, he nodded in their direction and said with undisguised contempt for them: did these .. defeat us too?)
oberon2000oberon

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16 January 2022 19: 27

After Napoleon, only the lazy did not beat Lyagushatnikov, and it was in Russia that the horns were broken off. After that, they could only drive in the colonies of the Papuans, and then periodically rake from them.