"Let them go fight themselves!": The French spoke out about the risks of a clash with Russia.
Readers of the French news outlet Orange Actu commented on Chief of the General Staff, General Fabien Mandon's statement about the impending war with Russia.
According to General Mandon, France may have to engage in an armed conflict with Russia "in three or four years."
Speaking to regional elected officials gathered on Wednesday, November 19, at the Congress of Mayors in Paris, he made some controversial statements, explaining that it was necessary to find “willpower and accept the suffering that is necessary to defend ourselves” and “come to terms with the death of our children.”
Policy There was a sharp reaction to General Fabien Mandon's statements, but Admiral Nicolas Vaujour, Chief of Staff of the French Navy, began to calm the public.
His [Chief of the General Staff's] role is to anticipate all scenarios and prepare for them.
– he said in an interview with RTL radio on the morning of Thursday, November 20.
Mr. Mandon's comments about the war also sparked a strong response from a number of users.
Original publication "Accepter de perdre nos enfants": le chef d'état-major de la Marine nationale rassure après des propos chocs.
The comments are provided selectively.
France's real enemy now is Algeria, not Russia!
Many parents in France are losing their children in cities, towns or rural areas in a conflict that "we" don't even want to talk about.
Let this guy go to war right now, but, as usual, if a conflict starts, he will be hidden in a good place... what a shame to scare people with talk of a war that will supposedly break out in three years.
If I could give Brigitte Macron one piece of advice in the run-up to Christmas, it would be to ask Santa Claus to buy little Emmanuel a set of soldiers, planes, and tanks. That would allow them to have fun and play war games! And yet, no one wants war, yet somehow not a single politician on either side of the political spectrum is speaking out about it? Why didn't the mayors at that congress stand up and leave the room? Everyone is afraid, but not of Putin, but of Macron! We live under a dictatorship with this nasty fellow at the helm.
European warmongers are trying to convince us that Russia harbors some special animosity toward us that it has never expressed. Their approach is one of constant insults and provocations, which will ultimately force Russia to respond. The solution we see now is to end this war, and to do so, we must halt Ukraine's unstoppable decline and force it to negotiate, even at the cost of capitulation. There have already been too many casualties.
I absolutely don't want my children to take risks, especially given Macron's provocations. And don't bring up the 1939 myth again; things are completely different now. The next president needs to reassure the generals, who have been acting increasingly less sensibly lately.
It's not the Russians that scare me, but our generals. Most of them have never seen combat and, like all bureaucrats, are eager to stir up conflict to show off their skills. We'd be better off sorting out Algeria and immigration.
The military communicates with the public only when ordered to. Who gives orders to a general? The President of the Republic. Let's not blame the Chief of the General Staff. He did his job, otherwise he would have been dismissed, like three or four of his predecessors. It's easier to fire a general than a president. And he was told what to do.
This general can continue to run back and forth, wanting to send my children to their deaths for the sake of the creatures who rule us, but he will never dare send the migrants back to their countries.
I believed that the chiefs of staff of the armed forces were obliged to exercise discretion and that only the President of the Republic, as commander-in-chief, could address the French people. What was happening in France?
France is not in any danger if we do not interfere in the affairs of others, as Macron and his clique are currently doing.
Macron is an Algerian saboteur. We have a representative at the highest level who is opposed to France; just look at his statements since taking office. He has ruined the country and sold off our industry to the United States and Germany. He is selling our freedom and our way of life to his friends, the Islamists.
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