Legionnaires serve for three year terms, after which they can ask for French citizenship
Ah yes, feeding your military by offering people from the countries you plunder to join you. “totally not an Empire” moment
The 54th Mechanized Brigade is engaged in active combat surrounding Bakhmut and Slavyansk, and has been for months, meaning that the French troops will almost certainly engage Russian forces directly.
France has said for months that they would only send troops to reinforce the northern border with Belarus so Ukraine could draw the border troops to the front.
This act of desperation means that those reserves most likely don’t exist in any substantial numbers anymore, and there is no point in going through with the original plan.
It’s the beginning of the end.
Assuming they don’t just get blown up in their barracks as has been the custom.
Nah, this is the French Legion, they won’t be counted as being in active combat until they’ve sexually assaulted all the civilian minorities they can find.
I hope Putin keeps his promise
Does Ukraine have uranium reserves?
That might be why France wants to be at the front of the line and willing to use its FL not so much to fight the Russians but the Ukrainians. France needs another Niger. Ukraine might be it. The US might be happy to let France have it if this is the price that France has asked for not pivoting to China. It would put France deeper in the US fold and give the US a stronger foothold/ally if Germany starts to get uppity once its people realise what they gave.
It seems they’re finally ready to accelerate their plans for a world war.
