At a meeting with a range of political parties, the President of France floated a scenario that could potentially lead to French troops deployed in Ukraine.

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.

    • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2410·
      8 months ago

      That could be called balls if he would take the rifle himself.

      Otherwise, it’s political play - maybe a necessary one, but it has nothing to do with “balls”.

      • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        It 100% is a political play but you must remeber thats what the armed forces of france signed up for they signed up to fight on behalf of the political power. Not one single other western country has even mentioned sending troops regardless of if he is the one holding a rifle (i suspect many of said troops being sent wont be doing such things they will most likly be engineers to support the western equipment) that is a ballsy political move and it should not be disregarded.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      Or at least talks the talk. No one has much faith in him to actually follow through though.

      • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Hes broken the seal on saying it hopefully a slightly more anti russian country (caugh caugh poland) will step up and let the people rape and kill their way across russia as they have wanted to for almost 100 years.