French President Emmanuel Macron met with parliamentary parties on Thursday. During the meeting Macron said he was open to the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine, as announced by, according to French newspaper L’Independant.

Fabien Roussel, a representative of the French Communist Party, said after the meeting that “Macron referenced a scenario that could lead to intervention [of French troops]: the advancement of the front towards Odesa or Kyiv.”

He noted that the French President showed parliamentarians maps of the possible directions of strikes by Russian troops in Ukraine.

Following the meeting, Jordan Bardella of the far-right National Rally party noted that “there are no restrictions and no red lines” in Macron’s approach.

  • @wildbus8979
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    I see you don’t understand that many European citizens are conscripts.

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      Finland, Switzerland, Austria, and Greece. These are the European countries with conscription. On paper, Norway and Sweden have conscription, but in all actuality there’s basically no way you get conscripted involuntarily.

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          They said European, so I assumed they meant anyone in the whole of Europe, other than Ukraine & Russia/Belarus. Although I guess I forgot Latvia and Estonia. I also didn’t say Turkey but they have conscription too.

          • @[email protected]
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            Yeah it was pretty late yesterday and I misread that. That’s why I deleted the comment.

      • @wildbus8979
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        I see you, and pretty much everyone else, missed the point entieely

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          In that case your point either doesn’t make sense or was badly explained. Both are entirely your fault.

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      and you don’t understand the difference between a career soldier and a conscript. Let me enlighten you:

      As a conscript you will be drafted only in a defense situation, an actual war in your own country. Simply spoken when the Russians are at your doorstep.

      A career soldier can send to missions either an official NATO one or one approved by your country’s commanding officer of your army.

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        As a conscript you will be drafted only in a defense situation, an actual war in your own country. Simply spoken when the Russians are at your doorstep.

        I’m sure all those drafted/conscripts who went to Vietnam totally felt like they were defending their country from imminent attack!

          • @wildbus8979
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            You’re the one who talked about NATO, bud.

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                Booohooo sniff sniff oh noes. Keep your head in the sand, ultimately it will be your demise I guess, I’m too old to get conscripted at this point. But I do remember the past.

                Algerian War at its height, 57% of the army consisted of conscripts, mostly from metropolitan France.

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      These are not the guys they’ll send out in a war. Unlike Russia, Western nations don’t need cannon fodder.

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        You are right, I forgot, the west would never do that!

        Thinking the wealthy class won’t send you to war has got to but one of the smoothest brain takes I’ve heard all year.