Haaaaaa…. in the series Tintin at the Popovs (those who experienced the Cold War and the expressions of the time will understand), our professor Trouposol learnedly explained to us that for our security we had to think about waging war... otherwise we could have war .

As an emeritus member of the 7th company, with Chief Chaudard, on the ground, we have another perception of the situation.

You are sitting down I hope… no because the intro of the great chef is capable of making you fall to the floor!

“You are sitting,” he told reporters. “You wouldn’t rule out getting up at the end of the show”? So the ground troops are the same. So.

War is simple.

Simple as a good valve.

Simple as a “bon mot”.

The textbooks (not the Emmanuels eh) will therefore remember that the Third World War took place because Trouposol, that day did not exclude getting up. You will listen. It's lunar.

A Mozart of strategic ambiguity.

But that's not all…

Then Professor Trouposol explained to us that he produces 100 shells per day and 75 Caesar cannons per year, and I am happy as are our enemies the Russians to learn this. These are useful statistics for winning a war of attrition. Is there no one at the general staff to explain to Tintin at the Elysée that certain figures should not be given? Or we poisoned and he had to tell Professor Trouposol that we were going to release 2025 Caesar cannons from 750. There the Kremlin would have trembled.

Short.

According to Trouposol we must not be cowardly and we must prevent Russia at all costs from winning in Ukraine, which amounts to saying that we must make Russia lose.

If no one accepts at least a little loss then by definition there is no peace or negotiation possible, there is only more war.

Macron does not have the means for this adage. First with our 3 billion debts and we will come back to that, Professor Trouposol du Palais is not strong. Our army can potentially hold a front of 100 to 80km at high intensity for a week. A little short to challenge Russia. Obviously Trouposol's genius idea is to go there "as Europeans" with the other "friends".

So we do not have the wisdom to be strong.

Finally, the spoiled child of the Palace is not wise at all because engaging the army against Russia will require going through Parliament. And no, Macron cannot arrogate to himself the right to decide alone to take France towards war against Russia, in the same way that he cannot have the stupidity to try to make us believe that the interests vital “existential” assets of Europe are threatened in Ukraine. It's wrong. The borders of the European Union are known, also by the Russians. Attacking a member country of the European Union would be a casus belli. We completely agree on that.

Ukraine is not in the European Union. This may be very sad for the Ukrainians, but they are in no way in our vital interests and it is important to say what a potential clash with Russia means. We will not lose 50 or 80 soldiers over 8 years like in Africa. We will lose 50 to 60% of an expeditionary force of 10 men. This is the reality. We will have thousands of deaths, ending with the signing of a peace treaty. Absurd. Without wisdom.

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