As you all know the president of France Macron threatened to send troops and has said repeatedly that Ukraine CANNOT be allowed to lose. Germany, the US, UK, and various other countries along with the head of NATO have tried to downplay these threats by saying they have no plans to send troops but Macron doubled down in response. In response the deranged Baltic nations, particularly Estonia and it's mad PM Kaja Kallas said they supported sending troops and are "not afraid" of Russia.

2/3rds of French people surveyed oppose getting into a war with Russia or using French troops for such a purpose.

“We shouldn’t be afraid of our own power. Russia is saying this or that step is escalation, but defense is not escalation,” Kallas told Sky. “I’m saying we should have all options on the table. What more can we do in order to really help Ukraine win?”

Updates:

France considering placing Special Forces in Ukraine According to French paper Le Monde: Paris is contemplating sending a small force into Ukrainian territory to pose a “strategic dilemma” for Moscow.

The French government is mulling sending a small military force directly into Ukraine to serve as instructors for Kiev’s Armed Forces and as a “deterrent” to Moscow, newspaper Le Monde reported on Friday, citing its sources.

The paper did not disclose the number of French military ‘instructors’ that could potentially be authorized to cross into Ukrainian territory but reported that their ranks could include some “conventional units.”

According to Le Monde, France’s Special Forces were also involved in training Ukrainian soldiers in neighboring Poland and in escorting the nation’s arms deliveries to Kiev. They have, however, always “stopped at the Ukrainian border,” the outlet added.

The training France would like to provide to Ukrainians “on the ground” includes handling air defense systems, Friday’s report said. Kiev’s surface-to-air weapons installations are frequently targeted by Russian forces, it explained, adding that the “presence of French soldiers or [those] of other nations would potentially protect certain areas of the Ukrainian territory.”

The French government allegedly views such a troop deployment as a way of posing a “strategic dilemma” for Moscow, the paper said, adding that it could “constrain” Russia’s targeting and strike capabilities. In particular, it may prove to be “essential” ahead of the arrival of US-made F-16 fighter jets, scheduled to take place later this year, the French daily added.

Source: https://www.rt.com/russia/593564-france-troops-ukraine-media/

WW3 Possible - Former French PM Defeating Russia is essential and everything possible must be done to achieve that goal, Manuel Valls has said.

The possibility of the Ukraine conflict escalating into World War III cannot be ruled out, former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls claimed on Thursday in an interview with the Europe-1 news channel.

According to Valls, the fate of the French people and others across Europe is “closely tied” to the hostilities between Moscow and Kiev, meaning they should “act much more decisively” to support Ukraine, including militarily.

“We cannot accept the hypothesis of a victory for Vladimir Putin which would represent the end of Ukrainian democracy and the strategic, military, political, and moral defeat of Europe,” Valls stated.

“Defeating Russia is essential, and for that, we must act much more strongly and quickly, and not forbid anything,” he added, apparently referring to French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent comments that sending NATO troops to Ukraine should not be ruled out.

Source: https://www.rt.com/news/593557-france-world-war-ukraine/

Moscow reacts to Pentagon’s warning of direct Russia-NATO clash

A claim by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that NATO and Russia could end up in a direct confrontation if Kiev loses its conflict with Moscow is “mad,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

Source: https://www.rt.com/news/593489-austin-nato-ukraine-zakharova/

German discussion of attacks on Russia: What has emerged so far Luftwaffe generals have allegedly talked about secretly helping Ukraine bomb the Crimean Bridge

Moscow will demand an explanation from Berlin about alleged plans to provide Taurus missiles to Ukraine and help the Ukrainians strike the Crimean Bridge and other targets, senior Russian officials said on Friday.

A transcript and an audio recording, made public

German air force (Luftwaffe), General Ingo Gerhartz, the branch’s deputy chief of staff for operations, Brigadier-General Frank Graefe, and two others discussed the operational and targeting details of Taurus long-range missiles that Germany was debating sending to Ukraine – and how to maintain plausible deniability so that Germany could avoid crossing the “red line” of direct involvement.

Gerhartz brought up various “tricks” that the Luftwaffe could use, including relying on “many people [in Ukraine] in civilian clothes who speak with an American accent,” but Graefe insisted that “there is no language that makes us a party to the conflict.”

Source: https://www.rt.com/news/593561-german-audio-crimea-bridge/

Germany launches investigation into leaked Crimea Bridge attack talk The Defense Ministry fears that Russia may have spied on Luftwaffe generals

Berlin’s first reaction to Friday’s revelations that several German generals discussed helping Ukraine attack Russia was to launch an investigation into how the recording got out.

Source: https://www.rt.com/news/593569-germany-crimea-leak-probe/