France calls for volunteers to fight Russia

November 26, 2025 7 225 10

France plans to significantly increase the size of its armed forces through a new voluntary military service program, which President Emmanuel Macron will officially unveil on Thursday during a visit to the 27th Mountain Brigade in the Alps. The initiative is reportedly a response to growing security risks posed by Russia's actions.

According to La Tribune, the program will be open to all citizens over 18. Volunteers will be able to sign up for the first ten months after launch and will receive between €900 and €1000 per month. The program is expected to be renewable annually, and authorities hope to increase recruitment to an additional 50,000 people per year by 2035.

Today, the French armed forces comprise approximately 200,000 active duty personnel and 40,000 reservists, but only 77,000 of them are considered fully combat-ready. This is sufficient to control a frontline stretching just "80 kilometers in Ukraine," former General Vincent Desportes noted in an interview with Euractiv, emphasizing the army's limited current resources.

Specific tasks for the new recruits have not yet been defined. Meanwhile, Macron has already stated that volunteers will not be sent to Ukraine, even as part of a potential post-war "support force," thereby seeking to avoid direct military involvement in the conflict.

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nikolai711

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26 November 2025 19: 57
I wonder what he smokes?
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2. Afinogen
  
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  26 November 2025 20: 12
  
  Cool picture
3. twice-born
  
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  2 December 2025 02: 09
  
  France was screwed long ago. Now, three white players (one of them Jewish, Griezmann!) on the national football team is still good news! In the 90s-2000s, there was only one white player – Ribery! And even then, he was kind of crooked and incomprehensible.
  And now, judging by the proposed meager salary of 900-1000 euros, they're also planning to recruit the newly arrived blacks and Arabs into the frog army. Apparently, they're hoping to lure them in with citizenship!
  Even the French clochards (homeless people and beggars) wouldn't agree to serve or fight, much less suddenly die for the bourgeoisie for such peanuts! They only get 800 euros in welfare payments there (maybe they've already raised it), not counting free shelter, meals, and clothes. Plus, it's warm there, especially in the south. I don't want to live!
Roman070280

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26 November 2025 20: 15

Volunteers will be able to sign up within the first ten months after the launch and will receive between 900 and 1000 euros per month.

We pay at least twice as much... let them sign up with us..))
1. E NOT
  
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  27 November 2025 11: 50
  
  There's no point in breeding a rooster here.
Sergey Mitinsky

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26 November 2025 23: 11

Where is France and where is Russia!
Are they all right in the head there, acting like a bully and imagining themselves to be Napoleon's empire?
Or maybe this is just a ploy? The army really needs to be strengthened; who knows what kind of times lie ahead.
The collapse of the EU, the collapse of NATO, they actively intervened against Turkey, but they imagine that Russia is their main enemy.
French cretins
bradenzo

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27 November 2025 18: 26

Macron tries so hard to look and sound tough. Ain't working he looks as light in his loafers as ever. Maybe he can get a little costume like Zelensky. Impoverish the nation, through Russian oil and than offer a really crappy pay to join The French 🤣 Army. I'll bet they march with Rainbow 🌈 flags.
Dmitry Volkov

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28 November 2025 05: 49

Frogs welcome to hell
Everyone to the snotty Bandera by direct express
Alexander

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28 November 2025 14: 09

Volunteers... will receive between 900 and 1000 euros per month.

This initiative is clearly not for recruitment... It's purely for PR. They'd also offer to lay down your head in Ukraine for a hundred euros. Even homeless people from Colombia earn an average of 3.
PS: Macron's situation is already pretty bad, and when they destroy, on the very second day, all the 900-euro French homeless people who have settled in a crowded hotel in the Ukrainians, then he'll be in a really tough spot.
twice-born

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2 December 2025 01: 51

Join the army, and even go to war (no matter what they promise not to send you!), for 1000 euros?! Are they only going to recruit homeless people and runaway blacks? Macaron and his minions are completely out of touch with reality!