Above: French Foreign Legion troops in Afghanistan
Stephen Bryen – Asia Times May 4, 2024
France has sent its first troops officially to Ukraine. They have been deployed in support of the Ukrainian 54th Independent Mechanized Brigade in Slavyansk. The French soldiers are drawn from France’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, which is one of the main elements of France’s Foreign Legion (Légion étrangère).
In 2022 France had a number of Ukrainians and Russians in the Foreign Legion. They were allowed to leave the Legion and, in the case of the Ukrainians, return to Ukraine to join Ukrainian forces. It isn’t clear if the Russians returned home.
The Legion today is run by French officers but the rank and file are all foreigners. Under the curren anonymat (being anonymous) a volunteer who joins the Legion can decide whether to keep his given name or adopt a new one. Legionnaires serve for three year terms, after which they can ask for French citizenship. If a legionnaire is wounded, he is entitled to gain French citizenship without any waiting period. There are no women in the Foreign Legion.
The initial group of French troops numbers around 100. This is just the first tranche of around 1,500 French Foreign Legion soldiers scheduled to arrive in Ukraine.
These troops are being posted directly in a hot combat area and are intended to help the Ukrainians resist Russian advances in Donbas. The first 100 are artillery and surveillance specialists.
For months French President Emanuel Macron has been threatening to send French troops to Ukraine. He has found little or no support from NATO countries outside of support from Poland and the Baltic States. Allegedly the US opposes sending NATO soldiers to Ukraine (other than as advisors).
One of the questions to immediately arise from France’s decision to send soldiers from its 3rd Infantry Regiment is whether this crosses the Russian red line on NATO involvement in Ukraine? Will the Russians see this as initiating a wider war beyond Ukraine’s borders?
There’s an article on here about Russian forced taking over part of a US air base in Niger. The French were kicked out earlier, and Wagner moved in.
This is what is pissing Macron off. He sees the Russians as a threat to the French Imperialist economy, such as cheap uranium from Niger, & elsewhere.
Of course the FFL are NATO forces, because they are bankrolled by a NATO member, and as the article points out, FFL forces have the right to become French citizens.
I expect the Russian to bust a nut and kill these French forces ASAP.
Macron expects more NATO members will follow the French lead.
100, to 1500, to 2000, these are political numbers, a fuse if you like.
This is the cowardice of Macron. Probably didn’t want to do it, probably forced into it by the cowardly US or WEF. It implies France is moving in when the Foreign Legion could be anybody but Frenchmen. If he wanted France in for real he would move the French in.
In response Russia should target every last French asset in Ukraine.
If that trifecta of posing French Faggots is anything to go by….
I’d think Vlad would be more terrified if Macron’s “wife” – Mdm Tranny Granny – landed in Ukraine!
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The French foreign legion
in france you are offered a choics
all major criminals can go to prison or join the forehgn legion
they commit horrendous crimes like our own SAS did in germany at the wars end
Lot of Putintards on this site Rixon.
Rothschild Jewry refuses to give up on Ukraine and has ordered one of its vassal nations to send troops. LOL! Just goes to show once again the insanity & delusion of Jewry.
Russia ought to send a Nuke into the City of London! These big Banking Jews need to be neutered.
Russia has been nice guys so far. Time to take the gloves off and grab a spiked club.
Seems to me that if the Jew-west has resorted to sending their troops to Ukraine, they may eventually use Nukes, even though that would be suicidal. Again; Jewry is insane & delusional, which makes it very dangerous. The west may need to be put down for good.
Soon it will be raining dismembered frog parts. They are as good as dead and don’t even know it.
Macron:
I think we can handle Russia. I sent two units, they’re taking her down now.
Agent Smith:
No FrogPM, your men are already dead.
After the Poles…French are next stoopidist nation.
Get a load of the 3 Stooges in the photo at the top….one low-brow mongrel degenerate and the 2 white guys, who clearly have a look of mental retardation, with the one on the end obviously trying to compensate, unsuccessfully, for his laughably lacking endowment. Those pinheads, clearly stunted in just about every way and looking like children playing dress-up in costumes left behind by their deadbeat dads who left for a pack of smokes and a pint of gin and never went back, don’t look capable of working at a f*cking car wash or digging a ditch in a competent manner, yet someone thought it a good idea to issue them high-powered weapons….
If I saw those short-bus rejects across a battlefield, I’d be laughing too hard to be able to dispense accurate fire for a while. Macron the sawed-off faggot sodomite sure has been itching for France to take yet another beating.
Can we really have any sympathy for these idiots. More stupid goy offering themselves up for sacrifice for the god of ZOG. The MI5 trolls will tell you its Putin’s fault but like the simpletons who begged for the kill shot these morons will march to their death.
good to see others are starting to term them Putintards too. they’re similar to the brainless Trumptards in America.
olivia hall–no, Nico, it’s just you