It seems to be like French President Emmanuel Macron lastly managed to insert himself smack dab in the midst of the Peace Course of debate and the decision of the Ukraine conflict – within the worst doable approach.
By floating the concept of utilizing the ‘nuclear umbrella’ of the – restricted – French arsenal, ‘Macron Demission’ managed to enrage the Russians.
The Russian Overseas Ministry accused French President Emmanuel Macron of ‘nuclear blackmail’ and said that he lastly ‘eliminated the masks and revealed who’s main the ‘conflict occasion’ at the moment’.
The next was sourced from a number of Sputnik posts on Telegram:
“Russia has by no means threatened France and even helped defend its independence throughout each World Wars. However Macron’s remarks pose a menace to Russia.
Macron’s provide of a ‘nuclear umbrella’ to Europe won’t strengthen the safety of France or its allies.
Paris nonetheless has no intention of taking Russia’s very important pursuits under consideration and goals to ‘pressure’ Moscow to make choices that swimsuit the West.”
Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov weighs in by saying that ‘Macron’s remarks on the doable use of nuclear arms are a menace to Russia.’
“With out US, UK assist with intelligence info, Kiev can not launch missiles. […] The Ukraine battle can finish by stopping arms provides by the West to Kiev.
[…] There could be no compromise on the doable deployment of European peacekeepers in Ukraine. […] The deployment of European peacekeepers to Ukraine will imply NATO direct involvement in conflict with Russia.”
In the meantime, Russians can’t resist evaluating France’s comparatively small nuclear capabilities with the huge arsenal of recent Russian hypersonic tactical missiles.
Attacking France may create a sequence response and radioactive clouds ‘one million occasions better’ than Chernobyl, it’s argued.
“France’s large-scale community of 56 nuclear reactors. ‘These reactors are unlikely to be shortly delivered to a secure, non-operational state.’
‘This might create a number of Chernobyls as a consequence of the usage of nuclear weapons. That’s, the territory of France would successfully stop to exist, [Russian military analyst Alexey Leonkov] mentioned.”
Even the seemingly unstoppable Oreshnik hypersonic MRBM – a strong standard missile, may arguably deliver concerning the destruction of France’s strategic army and civilian infrastructure.
“’Subsequently, flaunting France’s nuclear arsenal – 290 warheads in opposition to Russia’s nearly 6,000, most of which use guided hypersonic know-how, is insanity.
That is insanity on the a part of Macron, and people who encompass and assist him,’ [Leonkov] summed up.”
Watch: Russian FM Lavrov feedback Macron’s nuclear threats.
“He apparently desires to defeat and conquer Russia,” Lavrov mentioned about Macron’s nuclear threats.
“Not like his predecessors—Napoleon and Hitler—who additionally needed to wage conflict in opposition to Russia, Macron is appearing in a relatively clumsy method. They freely mentioned: ‘We have to conquer Russia, we… pic.twitter.com/eALT4mq78F
— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) March 6, 2025
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