France Must Be Prepared To Lose Children

France must be prepared ‘psychologically’ to ‘lose children’ in a potential war with Russia, an army chief has warned.

Chief of the Defence Staff General Fabien Mandon told a meeting of local mayors that the nation had the ‘know-how’ – but not the ‘will’ to fight, despite fears that Vladimir Putin is preparing an attack on a Nato member by 2030.

European powers, including France, have supported Ukraine with growing supplies of weapons but have always insisted they are not directly involved.

Mandon said: ‘We have all the knowledge, the economic and demographic strength to deter the Russian regime from trying its luck by going further.

‘What we lack, and this is where you have a major role to play, is the strength of spirit to accept suffering in order to protect who we are.

‘If our country falters because it is not prepared to accept – let’s be honest – to lose its children, to suffer economically because defence production will take precedence, then we are at risk.’

The general previously told a defence magazine that Russia ‘did not know peace’ and that Western Europeans had lived in times of relative stability for so long they find it hard to comprehend danger around them.

His words drew condemnation from several politicians, including from Jen-Luc Melenchon, the leader of the left-wing France Unbowed party, who said he ‘totally disagreed’ with the warning.

Sébastien Chenu, a member of Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally, said that the general did not have ‘legitimacy’ to comment on such policy matters and had made an ‘error’.

However, his co-member Louis Aliot reiterated Mandon’s point that one had to be ‘ready to die for his country’ to ensure its survival.

This comes after a similar warning from Ukraine’s former defence minister, Dmytro Kuleba, who told the Metro that mothers in Britain will soon have to make an inconceivable choice – send their sons to fight against Russian soldiers in Europe, or suffer the end of Nato.

Mandon had previously told the party’s defence committee that France could face a ‘test’ from Russia within just three or four years, the BBC reported.

Speaking on behalf of the government, Defence Minister Catherine Vautrin said it was essential to foster a sense of ‘collective moral force’ in order to be prepared for a possible future conflict.

‘Our policy is to do everything to avoid war but at the same time prepare, and consolidate that collective moral force without which no nation can survive the test’, she said.

However, it won’t be all children who will suffer. The elites will be hiding out in fallout bunkers with their parents.

The wolf is at the door, but most people refuse to acknowledge this, and this is something that Vladimir Putin is going to feast on.

Russian aggression knows no borders and is a direct danger to Europe.

Russia will not stop at Ukraine, and if Russia goes to war with France, France will be on their own. And there’s a genuine fear that the US will step away and leave Europe powerless to Russian aggression, and there is also a sense that Europe’s survival and future could be at stake.

People don’t typically want war, especially civilians, but war is constantly thrust upon them, and then they have to protect themselves.

People don’t want to die in rich men’s games!