The real reason is because France is being kicked out of Africa so they have to turn inwards and colonize their own people.
The more African countries free themselves from the shackles of French imperialism, the worse it will get for the average French. Then it would be very easy to sell them the next war for them to needlessly die in.
French officials daring the population to bring out the guillotines? Time is a flat circle.
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I mean, they actually submitted the idea of removing two national holidays to “save money”. The dishonest part here is “to fight Russia”, even though the next budget is expected to increase the army’s budget.
But who are they increasing the army’s budget for? Just for fun?
Oh yeah, it’s to totally send boots in Russia and walk on Moscow of course, we’ve almost done it once, we can do it again!
That’s totally not a big jump to a fantasized conclusion fed to y’all by known Russian propagandists. The author of the article somehow manages to grasp the problem and dishonestly draw wrong conclusions from it.There are many reasons to increase the Army’s budget. Funneling money to Macron’s friends in the armament industry is one of them, preparing the public opinion for a war that will never happen to justify “sacrifices” and austerity is another.
I don’t think there’s any point in debating about this on .ml anyway. You’ve probably made up your mind about this already.
There are many reasons to increase the Army’s budget. Funneling money to Macron’s friends in the armament industry is one of them, preparing the public opinion for a war that will never happen to justify “sacrifices” and austerity is another.
These are probably also reasons, but you think war with Russia isn’t on the minds of every government in Europe right now? They’re already fighting a proxy war with Russia! At the very least I think this is one of many reasons for increased military funding.
Funding the army to protect yourself and your neighbours from aggression is very different from funding the army to invade a sovereign country.
I’m not arguing it’s not one of the reasons for increasing the budget, but arguing it’s to attack Russia is just dishonest.
Oh. Now I see the problem - you’re still operating with centuries-old thinking. You think “war with Russia” means France launching a unilateral invasion of Russia.
Funding NATO is literally the equivalent of preparing for war with Russia. NATO was formed explicitly to counter the USSR. It was staffed with Nazi officers from the Third Reich on the basis that the Third Reich was 100% dedicated to destroying the Soviet Union and enslaving Russia. When the USSR was dissolved, NATO didn’t dissolve itself, it became an openly aggressive military force launching invasions of several countries under various pretenses.
The idea of austerity for increased NATO funding can only be interpreted as money for war with Russia. Sure, you can pretend NATO is purely defensive but even if that’s the case it’s still accurate to say that France is engaging in austerity to fund a war with Russia, just a defensive one.
The reality, however, is that the West has been hell bent on dominating Russia for over 200 years and the quintessential example of that history is Napoleon’s campaign to invade Russia - one of the deadliest canpaigns in history. And since the Third Reich was also a Western attempt to invade Russia resulting in massive bloodshed, it becomes really difficult to ignore the obvious problem of France funding NATO (remember, originally helmed with handpicked Third Reich officers) as some kind of “just defensive pact” especially when NATO dropped DU bombs on Yugoslavia in its supposed war for humanitarianism, and NATO’s involvement in offensive operations in East Asia.
So you may take issue with the imagined implication that France is going to send an army under the French flag to march on Moscow - I think that’s silly too. But you’re arguing against a strawman.
Not dishonest, but following the jingoistic remarks made by several European leaders plus the current NATO proxy war and economic murder attempt of Russia, it’s at the very least in the cards, lol. The budget could go into Ukrainian drones (it already is, this is just a proposed increase) just like the American budget serves to bomb tf out of Palestine and neighbours. It’s dishonest to say otherwise, come on.
plus the current NATO proxy war and economic murder attempt of Russia
Wow, why would “NATO” do this? Russia hasn’t invaded anyone since
20222014200819991994197919681956, that’s such a long time ago, and those Hungarians totally deserved it.
They are already attacking Russia through a proxy. They’ve not been shy about it. They are increasing military spending because they think their proxy is about to collapse and their liege the US is already demanding everyone else step up so they can pivot to China.
Hey Russia, your army is mass deserting. They are treated better as POW’s than by their own government.
I wish I knew where to bet on the fact that if Ukraine has a complete collapse and an unconditional surrender half of you libs will go “these Russian bots lol have fun when Ukraine unveils their gambit and kills the entire Russian government and are celebrated as heroes by everyone in the country”
Why would I laugh about Russian bots spreading nazi propaganda. Also, what Ukrainian collapse? Right now the chances of Russia having a complete collapse is bigger than Ukraine.
Russian propaganda is world news now? Wtf dude
It is world news. Why should only Western propaganda be shared?
It is not propaganda, it is only labeled like that because of the empire’s need to discredit it
Kind of like how they attempt to discredit Europe’s extremely reasonable concerns about Russia (conswidering they’ve been bombing the shit out of ukraine for a couple of years?) starting a war by calling it a “fantasy”?
It’s complete bullshit, some facts are portrayed completely out of proportion and it has a clear propaganda bias.
As opposed to what? What sources do you use that don’t portray any facts out of proportion or have any bias?
Friend, where are you getting your facts to compare it to? Empire controlled outlets. You can not say that a certain fact is or is not being blown out of proportion when the other source for a fact can’t be trusted
I’m a military OSINT analyst, I know how to do source analysis. Russia Today is one of the worst propaganda sources out there.
For which military? A western military? Yeppers, im sure they trained you to do proper source analysis! Not like they have any incentive to alter the training to disadvantage certain sources that just so happens to go against western narratives nosir! Sure they have done a whole lot of evil things, but not ensuring their rank and file are properly trained on source analysis is where they absolutely draw the line 😁 🙄
Well at least I recognize a Russian troll when I see one.
What I do is not believing everything I see on the internet. Whenever there’s an article, it can only be confirmed when there are multiple factual sources. RT is far from factual and pushes a very narrative. Like the Russian government. Also like Fox News, and US government. Russian independant news sources can be pretty good, but government controlled sources tend to be awful. Especially when it’s about the unprovoked invasions into neighboring countries. Like Georgia and Ukraine. And the years long war which consists of insane amounts of factually confirmed horrific war crimes. Like chemical weapons for example. But hey, if you think the Russian government, which is run by an oligarch dictator, is more credible than independant news sources, they you do you!
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