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'Speech Not Based on Anything': Former French Officer on Macron's Address to Nation
'Speech Not Based on Anything': Former French Officer on Macron's Address to Nation
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On March 5, French President Emmanuel Macron, in his address to the nation, spoke against a ceasefire in Ukraine, saying that peace cannot be "a capitulation... 07.03.2025, Sputnik Africa
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French President Emmanuel Macron "does not have the means to make such a speech," Dominique Delawarde, a former high-ranking officer in the French army, commented on Macron's address to the nation to Sputnik Africa.The French political elites do not dare to question the president's approach, the high-ranking officer lamented. He emphasized that less than a third of the French population supports the idea of sending the country's soldiers to Ukraine.If sent to Ukraine, many French soldiers "would not be eager to fight, but would rather be eager to surrender," the general said.According to him, the French army "is roughly equivalent to one or two weeks' consumption of the Russian army."French forces are incapable today of "holding more than a few dozen kilometers of front," Delawarde noted.Macron's address to the nation, Delawarde said, is "a gigantic comedy that is being played in Russia's face."According to Delawarde, it will take two decades for Paris to create "something worthy of the name of the French army." He added that the same can be said about the British army, which is in a poor state. With his bellicose speech towards Moscow, Emmanuel Macron is trying to boost his paltry popularity rating, the former officer concluded.
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'Speech Not Based on Anything': Former French Officer on Macron's Address to Nation
Ekaterina Shilova
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On March 5, French President Emmanuel Macron, in his address to the nation, spoke against a ceasefire in Ukraine, saying that peace cannot be "a capitulation of Ukraine" and proposing to use French nuclear weapons to protect all of Europe.
French President Emmanuel Macron "does not have the means to make such a speech,"
Dominique Delawarde, a former high-ranking officer in the French army, commented on Macron's address to the nation to
Sputnik Africa. "Even the United States would not have the means to do it alone," he added.
The French political elites do not dare to question the president's approach, the high-ranking officer lamented.
He emphasized that less than a third of the French population supports the idea of
sending the country's soldiers to Ukraine.
If sent to
Ukraine, many French soldiers "would not be eager to fight, but would rather be eager to surrender," the general said.
According to him, the French army "is roughly equivalent to one or two weeks' consumption of the Russian army."
French forces are incapable today of "holding more than a few dozen kilometers of front," Delawarde noted.
"Macron does pretty much what he wants; he sends to life and death, he who has never worn a uniform and has never fired a bullet in his life," the retired general stated.
Macron's address to the nation, Delawarde said, is "a gigantic comedy that is being played in
Russia's face."
"President Putin must be laughing, seeing these desperate efforts by Europeans to exist when they no longer exist," he stated.
According to Delawarde, it will take two decades for Paris to create "something worthy of the name of the French army." He added that the same can be said about the
British army, which is in a poor state.
With his bellicose speech towards Moscow, Emmanuel Macron is trying to boost his paltry popularity rating, the former officer concluded.
