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2025-10-24 Europe

Le Figaro: France needs to prepare for war with Russia in three to four years

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Posted by badanov 2025-10-24 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1884 views ] Top

1 "imaginary "Russian threat"

The daily (real) threats from Russia are "imaginary"? Just like the invasion of Ukraine, I guess.

Posted by European Conservative 2025-10-24 05:46|| 2025-10-24 05:46|| Front Page Top

2
Real or imaginary.
The comment/idea will likely be used by politicians to spend $$$$$$$ in certain favored places.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-10-24 05:51|| 2025-10-24 05:51|| Front Page Top

3 France has been "preparing for war with Russia" since the end of WWII.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-10-24 06:28|| 2025-10-24 06:28|| Front Page Top

4 ...FWIW, I have served alongside French forces on two occasions. They were cocky little bastards, but they also had the skills to back it up, as long as their political masters don't screw it up.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-10-24 06:32|| 2025-10-24 06:32|| Front Page Top

5 They can't/unwilling to protect the French from Muslim colonists, but they want to fight Russia?

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-10-24 06:54|| 2025-10-24 06:54|| Front Page Top

6 Nobody wants to fight Russia. Defending ourselves against Russian aggression is a different matter.

Posted by European Conservative 2025-10-24 07:03|| 2025-10-24 07:03|| Front Page Top

7 ^Maybe, just maybe, EU/Nato shouldn't been expanding eastward since Soviet U. fell

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-10-24 07:13|| 2025-10-24 07:13|| Front Page Top

8 Maybe this was up to Poland and the Baltic countries to decide for themselves? And why did Finland and Sweden join?

Posted by European Conservative 2025-10-24 07:19|| 2025-10-24 07:19|| Front Page Top

9 ^Yes, yes, of course you're right - just remember what happened to you last time!

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-10-24 07:32|| 2025-10-24 07:32|| Front Page Top

10 Sure. Poland remembers all too well what happened on September 17, 1939.

Posted by European Conservative 2025-10-24 07:57|| 2025-10-24 07:57|| Front Page Top

11 ^How's Poland stands on the subject of Muslim Immigration?

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-10-24 08:05|| 2025-10-24 08:05|| Front Page Top

12 They certainly don't like that Russia and Belarus facilitate it.

Posted by European Conservative 2025-10-24 08:09|| 2025-10-24 08:09|| Front Page Top

13 He has an answer for everything - except that the EU has to offer to the rest of the World.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-10-24 08:27|| 2025-10-24 08:27|| Front Page Top

14 He's not wrong

Posted by Frank G 2025-10-24 09:17|| 2025-10-24 09:17|| Front Page Top

15 ^Just omitting some relevant facts.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-10-24 09:20|| 2025-10-24 09:20|| Front Page Top

16 Well how do you think migrants from the Middle East make it to Poland? Russia and Belarus give them visa, let them fly in and send them straight to the border, if necessary quite forcefully. That's why Poland is building fences and Finland has closed all border crossings with Russia.

Posted by European Conservative 2025-10-24 09:34|| 2025-10-24 09:34|| Front Page Top

17 I know it's old hat, but surely that hag and Minsk Agreement signatory Angela Merkel had nothing to do with all this.

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-10-24 10:04|| 2025-10-24 10:04|| Front Page Top

18 @Grom

Maybe don't be so hard on EC. He's probably tired after tending to Stepan Bandera's grave site on the west side of Munich this morning.

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-10-24 10:05|| 2025-10-24 10:05|| Front Page Top

19 how do you think migrants from the Middle East make it to Poland?

Funny, I thought Poland doesn't have any illegal migrants.
"You Will Be KILLED!" - Dominik Tarczyński WARNS Migrants: Poland Will SHOOT Illegal Immigrants

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-10-24 10:06|| 2025-10-24 10:06|| Front Page Top

20 #18 😰

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-10-24 10:08|| 2025-10-24 10:08|| Front Page Top

21 "Funny, I thought Poland doesn't have any illegal migrants."

Because Poland sends those who make it to the German border.

Posted by European Conservative 2025-10-24 10:20|| 2025-10-24 10:20|| Front Page Top

22 Western Europe is about as ready for war as GenZ is for adulthood.

Posted by DarthVader 2025-10-24 11:27|| 2025-10-24 11:27|| Front Page Top

23 Didn't they try this before? Unlike the Germans, they at least made it to Moscow.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-10-24 12:44|| 2025-10-24 12:44|| Front Page Top

24 If you could just step back from the war hysteria being promoted by guys like Fabien Mando, you might see that Russian aggression against Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014 was triggered by NATO threats to expand into those countries.

Putin has warned NATO leaders that their expansion to Russia's borders constitutes an existential threat to Russia. That kind of language means war is on the table and yet NATO continues it push to the east.

What? You expect Putin to believe your assurances that you won't use those countries as staging areas for aggression against Russia itself? You expected him to believe Joe Biden's assurances that Tomahawk missiles in Ukraine would not be fitted with nuclear warheads? Why, after the trashing of the Minsk agreements and the Maidan Coup, would he believe that?

Leave those countries alone and you just might find the Russians to be a bit more agreeable. Otherwise, you are liable to end up like Napoleon in the graphic there, humiliated and retreating in the snow with your tail between your legs.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-10-24 12:45|| 2025-10-24 12:45|| Front Page Top

25 you might see that Russian aggression against Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014 was triggered by NATO threats to expand into those countries

Oh and Chechnya was? Maybe Kazakhstan? Crimea? Oooo oooo Syria was!

Give me a fucking break. Russia is aggressive and expansive. Always has been to protect the flat and very hoard/tank friendly heartland. They always push out to the defensive areas.

Posted by DarthVader 2025-10-24 16:50|| 2025-10-24 16:50|| Front Page Top

26 ^^ All the more reason to address their security requirements.

Posted by badanov 2025-10-24 17:29|| 2025-10-24 17:29|| Front Page Top

27 ^ Like placating an abusive spouse.

Posted by Frank G 2025-10-24 17:48|| 2025-10-24 17:48|| Front Page Top

28 Russia has nukes. It's safe.
What about the security requirements of the Baltic States or Poland?

Posted by European Conservative 2025-10-24 18:33|| 2025-10-24 18:33|| Front Page Top

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