France Prepares for War with Russia, By Richard Miller (Europe)

The French military are preparing for war with Russia, with a military exercise to simulate such a war scheduled to be conducted in Romania in May 2025. Emmanuel Macron did not rule out sending troops to Ukraine as he stated earlier this year. French General Bertrand Toujouse said that Russia was a designated enemy: "We used to play war. Now, there's a designated enemy, and we train with people with whom we'd actually go to war." The plan is to be battle ready by 2027.

First, there is no evidence that Russia intends to invade France. Second, this war, unlike the Ukraine conflict, where the hope is to keep damages to a minimum, will involve full-out missile strikes. Second, France is ill-prepared to deal with this, the people not having fall-out shelters, but instead are surrounded by the fall-out of diversity.

War with Russia will end Europe. If that is the plan of the elites, they need to take a handful of tranquillizers and calmly consider what happens when the West is destroyed. Surely, they can see that at best, the devastation with modern weapons will be many times greater than that of the last world war?

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"The coming year will be a critical test for the French army as thousands of French soldiers will participate in an extensive military exercise in Romania next May for a simulated war with Russia.

According to a report in Politico, the purpose of the exercise is to evaluate how fast they can reach NATO's eastern flank if required, which is essential if Russian President Vladimir Putin launches an attack on an allied NATO country.

"Paris is preparing for a world war. The pro-war French president has already come up with alarming plans in recent months, which could clearly lead to a war between NATO and Russia. As reported earlier, Emmanuel Macron did not rule out sending troops to Ukraine either," reported the Hungarian news outlet Magyar Nemzet.

Despite the probable threats of an open conflict with Russia, NATO appears to be getting ready for that probability.

"We used to play war. Now, there's a designated enemy, and we train with people with whom we'd actually go to war," said General Bertrand Toujouse, who is in charge of the French army's newly created land command for Europe.

Toujouse added that such military exercises "are a strategic signal."

French ground troops in the past few years have undertaken a "profound transformation" to prepare for a conflict as fierce as the war in Ukraine.

The French army also has fresh marching orders from NATO. It indicated that by 2027, it should be able to deploy a war-ready division within 30 days along with ammunition and supplies.

Top officers explained that moving toward that goal is central to next year's Dacian Spring exercise. The French army will train to send a war-ready brigade to Romania in 10 days which is an intermediary action that, if successful, will confirm France's reliability with NATO allies and set the stage to attain the 2027 objective.

A brigade has between 3,000 and 5,000 soldiers, while a division has from 10,000 to 25,000 combatants. The major challenge is for French troops to reach Romania in such a short time.

"There is still no military Schengen and we need to decisively improve military mobility in Europe," General Pierre-Eric Guillot, Toujouse's deputy, said.

The first troop deployment in Romania in 2022 has been hindered by bureaucratic procedures, border control policies and defective trains for transporting military equipment. The affected nations have since worked to remove these problems.

"We may still be hampered by a few customs measures, but we've made a lot of progress in diversifying our routes," Guillot said in an interview with media.

Toujouse stated he is confident French troops will pass next year's test.

However, French Army Chief General Pierre Schill warned that to meet the 2027 goal, defense spending needs to maintain the non-binding, seven-year military planning law in France. The defense budget is in a tight spot as France's new government attempts to control the country's deficit.

"I expect the planned resources to be there in full. If there are major changes, at some point we may delay [the 2027 objective], saying that there aren't enough stocks to take them into combat. But that's fiction. That's only a hypothesis," Schill said."