French TV Pushes Paris Openly Deploying Troops to Ukraine

The short answer is yes, if you're a young French or other European male of military age living in a soon-to-be co-belligerent NATO country, it's time to get serious about potentially getting out. Because the first 2,000 troops French television is openly talking about sending to Ukraine as a tripwire force along the Dnieper River or the Belarussian border north of Kiev certainly won't be the last contingent, these are just the vanguard. According to a retired French general speaking on TV this week, France can send up to 20,000 troops, a divisional nucleus for a multi-national (read: Polish, Romanian or Baltic states soldiers) army corps to be based in Kiev or Odessa. And the French could do this even with the manpower commitment for protecting the upcoming Paris Summer Olympics.

Why exactly France having nuclear weapons will spare its soldiers from Russian missile and FAB glide bomb attacks whereas Russia's own nuclear deterrent has not prevented NATO from attacking the Russians in nominally Ukrainian operations was not explained by the retired general. Call it magical thinking, call it Napoleonic élan, these people on the French tee-vee are serious, and don't call them Shirley.

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Globo-Leftist Greens Demand a New Drang Nach Osten in Ukraine

Meanwhile, the drums of war and reinstituting mandatory conscription are beating louder across the Vosges for Paris' closest ally of Germany, where German authorities are admitting to a catastrophic lack of preparedness in the Bundeswehr. The wildly unpopular 'traffic light coalition' government's ham-handed objective is to push for the Bundestag to reinstate the draft and massive rearmament. A secondary objective is for the Greens, who are a mostly unpopular outside of Berlin and woke university towns, to keep pressuring SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz into sending Ukraine (or in reality, NATO F16 pilots posing as Ukrainian Viper drivers) nuclear-capable 500 km range air launched Taurus cruise missiles.

All of these threats directed at Russia from the French President's office and Francophone media are coming barely a week after RT published an intercepted phone call made from a Singapore hotel by top German Air Force generals plotting the destruction of Russia's Crimean Bridge with the same Taurus cruise missiles. In their conversations the Luftwaffe commanders admit that British and French active duty personnel are operating inside Ukraine along with a lot of Americans in civilian clothes.

As the rest of Germany deindustrializes and outsources manufacturing after being cut off from affordable Russian gas and electricity from multiple decommissioned nuclear plants, NATO arms manufacturer Rheinmetall AG and its suppliers are about the only German manufacturers still hiring.

The Reasons Behind French Posturing and German State-Sanctioned Panic

The EUrocrats won't stop, like heroin addicts one microliter of fentanyl in the needle mix away from death, they can't stop. Their entire self-image as a political class is incapable of tolerating a defeat for their masters across the Atlantic far greater than the hasty U.S. retreat from Afghanistan in 2021, or the last Huey out of Saigon in 1975. The French, who notoriously led the U.S. into the Vietnamese quagmire after their humiliating defeat at Dien Bien Phu, seem bent on avenging the recent deaths of their servicemen by the dozens from Russian missile strikes across Ukraine--particularly a recent deadly Iskander precision ballistic missile strike in the city of Kharkov. Intense Russian cooperation with African politicians and warlords in kicking the French out of their colonial legacy stakes across the Sahel and sub-Saharan Africa has also wounded Parisian elites' pride and corporate profits.

The long-term answer however, to the question of whether the globalists plan to escalate to a thermonuclear WW3 with Russia and China (since they'd get two nuclear holocausts for the price of one in that case, maybe even with North Korean missiles joining in) is no. As we said in our The Terminator Sarah Connor tribute post earlier in March at the ESW Patreon, the globalists very much want to live. And not living out the rest of their days in a bunker. But the globalists do seem hellbent on another 'Good War' to mention popular historian Studs Terkel's Pulitzer Prize-winning book about WW2 and how that global conflict pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression, by and large due to the rest of the world's industries being devastated while American industrial might trebled.

Now the Globalist American Empire which already used the P(l)andemic to buy time for the U.S. dollar hope to repeat the same collective trick of the late 1930s and 40s. Preferably via a war with Russia fought by soldiers from Poland, the Baltic states and the newly admitted to NATO Scandinavian countries Sweden and Finland with the French, British and Americans 'leading from behind' the presumably impermeable umbrella of their nuclear deterrent. And the globalists are quite prepared to push the edge of the escalation envelope toward open WW3 as far as they imagine that Russian weakness (in reality, Russian and Chinese strategic patience) allows.

NATO is Not Offering to Openly Send Troops to Ukraine Now Because Kiev is Winning

The problem for Washington and London especially being that the Russians are not weak, they are playing out a protracted strategy of economic and military attrition in concert with their Eurasian allies in China, North Korea and Iran. The evident desperation of the European politicians to now openly intervene confirms to the Kremlin and Putin's generals, as well as the non-aligned rest of the world including India, that time is not on NATO's side in Ukraine, attrition is massively favoring the Russians. And by extension, through the draining of NATO resources, China's ability to eventually invade or blockade Taiwan into surrender as well.

French President Emmanuel Macron's threats to officially send soldiers of France to Odessa (unofficially, as Vladimir Putin acknowledged this week, the French like the British, Americans, Poles, Canadians and thousands of Georgian mercenaries have been there for some time), the Finns and Czechs seconding Macron's call not to rule out ground troops...which practically means those nations' soldiers have already received their secret orders for Ukraine, resigning their commissions or getting sheep-dipped as 'volunteers' into reconstituted Ukrainian Army and Territorial Defense formations. Add to that the Latvian President paraphrasing Cato the Elder's famous tagline "Russia (Cartago) delenda est" (Russia must be destroyed) on X/Twitter...these are not signals of post-Western nations confidence, but of panic and weakness.

NATO's Industrial Weakness and the Eurasian Axis Production Surge

The Ukraine War has clearly not gone the way these people expected when it was drawn up in elite circles of power from Washington to Brussels. Russia moved in with a swift attempt at a coup d'main, which almost resulted in a Russo-Ukrainian peace being struck in Istanbul deal two years ago. But since autumn 2022, the Russians have settled into a strategy of a slow grind that inherently favors their massive industrial and manpower advantages over the Ukrainians. In doing so, they have acknowledged the reality that rapid mechanized infantry 'big arrow' advances like in World War II are a thing of the past, on a continuously surveilled battlefield saturated with drones of all types.

Nonetheless, NATO's ability to produce and send modern weapons and especially artillery shells has proven grossly inadequate to the Ukrainians' needs, even with the Alliance sending far more than it has publicly acknowledged while scrounging for spare parts and Soviet-legacy hardware the world over. Most embarrassingly for NATO, the entire EU membership of the Alliance, with defense plants untouched extending across the Continent from Spain to the Polish-Ukrainian border, is getting outproduced in shells, mortar rounds and rockets by Russia's old Stalinist ally North Korea. Just imagine how embarrassed the EUrocrats should be if they were capable of embarrassment--a relatively small hermit kingdom of 26 million people in northeast Asia, producing more implements of war than 448 million EU citizens!

And all of this is happening by and large with China supplying satellite imagery, dual-use electronics and soon, refined oil products, but as of yet avoiding open support for the Russian war effort...

Kiev's Catastrophic Demographics and the Limits of 'Fight Russia to the Last Ukrainian'

That all being said, despite Kiev being down to roughly 22 million souls in the territory it controls, with half of that population consisting of pensioners and others incapable of fighting, this war remains far from over. The Ukrainians are still willing to keep dying by their hundreds of thousands to prevent Russia from steamrolling westward. Indeed, it's precisely their willingness to suffer casualties that no Western European army could absorb without collapsing that has the Ukrainians lionized by NAFO and other elements of the post-Western propaganda machine.

Just as the bulk of the killing of Axis soldiers and civilians happened between the mid-summers of 1943 and 1945 well after the outcome of WWII had already been decided against Nazi Germany and Japan, the Kiev regime is far from willing to capitulate. Even with an increasingly difficult for the legacy U.S. media to ignore tactic of press-ganging the Ukrainian male population and growing hatred of the cruel draft sergeants, despite President Volodymyr Zelensky's 2019 electoral mandate expiring into a martial law dictatorship this May--the Zelensky regime grinds on.

Obligatory Disclaimers: Recognizing Reality is Neutrality, Not Choosing Sides

Our purpose in posting this article is not to belabor what has been obvious to everyone in the alt-media and dissident contrarians opposed to the Washington/London Blob since the failure of Kiev's grand offensive last summer, if not since the start of the Russian Special Military Operation (SMO): Russia is winning and will win this conflict--it's just a question of how many people on all sides will die and how far west into the former Ukraine an armistice aka Russian annexation line will be drawn. You may happen to be a patriot of Ukraine coming across this and think, what nonsense by someone who doesn't know any Ukrainians (actually we've known quite a few Ukrainians from the west in Lviv as well as the east in Kharkov), what hateful Putinist moral relativism!

But this article is not a value judgement by this American observer, anymore than our ESW Patreon posts last December about the Houthis effectively shutting down Red Sea commercial shipping for Israel's allies was an endorsement of Ansarallah with their 'death to America, death to Israel' slogan, or the Fall of Artsakh and the Need for Exit Strategies in the 21st Century was an endorsement of Azerbaijan's storming of Ngorno-Karabakh and Baku's irredentism over the Zangezur Corridor (aka the Danzig Corridor of the Caucuses).

We're simply presenting a sober analysis of the cold hard reality staring the post-Western world in the face--the collective 'West' is losing this war in Ukraine. And this is happening while the Western navies allied to Israel are losing control over the strategic approaches to the Suez through the Red Sea, before Iran has directly entered the fight, and with China and its ally North Korea waiting in the WW3 wings. Millions of Ukrainians who simply wished to live in a peaceful, non-Kremlin dominated country while trusting in Western promises (after Washington mostly abandoned the South Vietnamese and Afghans to their fate) have been the victims.

It's Time for an Exit Strategy, EuroBros

Which bring us to the main point: what is to be done?

If you are a young man of draft age in a NATO country, particularly one with a government highly hostile to Russia, an expanding list which now includes France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland as well as Finland and Sweden...or even if you are not so young, but still have a record of prior military service with militarily useful skills such as engine mechanic or truck driving...it may be time to consider a back up plan. So that, in the worst case scenario, you don't end up like the Ukrainian males getting hunted by draftee hunters using drones while fleeing across the borders into Moldova or Romania. Because conscription is going to be reinstituted, it's only a question of when not if it's happening for countries like Germany, which have not been able to sustain their all-volunteer forces in peacetime.

The fact that GenZ anti-war and pro-Palestinian activists' favorite platform TikTok is getting banned in the U.S., setting the trans-Atlantic precedent for banning UAE-based 'Russian propaganda app' Telegram next, is one big clue. Politico, spokes-media for the Washington Blob Establishment, is joining in the collective panic over the squalid state of a Bundeswehr that's been shrinking for decades is another leading indicator of what's coming soon.

Apparently after decades of peace and movies/TV shows emphasizing to Germans the futility of war, the supply of German men willing to go fight the Russians like his Landser grandpas did back in 1941-45 isn't coming anywhere close to NATO's needs. Which is why the 'Coalition of the Willing' is going to lean on the Poles as presumably pliable and expendable Slavs like the Ukrainians and secondarily, the French...hoping to preserve as many Anglo-Saxon soldiers from the present and former Crown Dominions as possible. But reinstating the French Army draft is hardly going to be popular in the Banlieues, where the 'street art' torches of burning cars is a frequent second or third generation Maghrebi motif near the City of Light.

Our Coming ESW Series on How Almost Anyone With a Clean Criminal Record and Modest Independent Online Sources of Income Can Get Residency in Multiple LatAm Nations

In a coming series of short posts, we'll cover the basics of how North Americans and Europeans of ordinary means can obtain residency far away from the Eurasian war zones, in Latin America. That is 21 countries on two Continents which speak Spanish, French or Portuguese, with visa-free travel for EU citizens and a much lower cost of living than just about everywhere in Europe, and a Mercosur visa-free work and travel zone. And whether you meet and marry the Latina of your dreams or your wife/girlfriend joins you on the journey, birth tourism is eminently feasible in Brazil and several other LatAm nations.

Here's a map of the Americas with a handy guide from global relocation industry publication IMI Daily to get you started. Because it shouldn't take fear of getting drafted into fighting WW3 to start the journey of a lifetime, and Create Your Own Free World™.