Notre article du 1er juillet 2021 sur le rapport de la RAND à propos des armées françaises
Les USA préparent depuis des années une guerre contre la Russie, et nous sommes les dindons de la farce.
Cet article que nous avions publié le 1er juillet 2021 sur notre éphémère rubrique en anglais “French Invaders” donne aujourd’hui froid dans le dos.
La RAND Corporation, un think-tank originellement issu de l’US Air Force, financé par le Pentagone et l’industrie de l’armement américaine, expose comment les armées françaises seront utilisées comme supplétives dans un conflit de haute intensité contre la Russie que les USA planifient depuis au moins 2008. Le moyen de provoquer cette guerre? L’Ukraine.
“A strong ally stretched thin” est le titre de ce rapport. La France, allié puissant aux capacités insuffisantes...
A remettre en contexte avec les déclarations délirantes d’Emmanuel Macron, qui montrent bien que l’ensemble de nos institutions sont soumises aux volontés de Washington.
I’ve always been flabergasted by american think tanks, especially government funded. Not that their reports are shallow and uninteresting, and that their researchers are intellectually impaired. They are not.
I’ve always been flabergasted by governement funded american think-tanks for disclosing US administrations intents and still being perceived by the public as neutral and objective experts, speaking the truth.
Read my lips and make no mistake : no chauvinist or epidermic reaction on my side. My concern is real. I fear I see where this is going. I speak my mind candidly.
What’s the point of analyzing french military capabilities through the prism of something very unlikely to happen ?
When in an open source research report titled “A Strong Ally Stretched Thin” I read “France could support a U.S.-led war effort in Eastern Europe now or in the next ten years” , I know I’m dealing with DC cocktail party circuit strategists pushing an agenda. No disregard intented. The authors are a former CIA Political Analyst (one year at Paris’ EHESS), a former deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Force Development in the Obama administration and to sweeten the brew a french lady formerly a researcher at the Small Arms Survey.
It would either be naive or having more hubris than us french to beleive that we will fall for this nudge (at the exception of the french mainstream media , very poor journalistic standard, very high masocistic tendencies , straigth into the trap with titles like “An Americain Think Tank Severely Criticizes The French Military”).
What on earth is “burden sharing” ? No country wages war to share others’ burden. A coalition, an Alliance shares first and foremost the same strategic intent and the same war goals.
What is the propability of a long high intensitiy conventional US-led war in Eastern Europe in the next ten years ?
Close to nil. Far less than a civil war erupting in France. The overwelming majority of the french public will not support a war against Russia. Oppostion will be stronger, stauncher and fiercer than in 2003 . All’s well: Russia does not have the intent nor the ressources to invade western Europe.
What’s the point of analyzing french military capabilities through the prism of something very unlikely to happen ? What’s the purpose of doing so knowing that french military capabilities are not primarily configured for this improbable scenario ?
The Biden administration has adopted the same stance than the Obama admistration when Hilary Clinton was Secretary of State and Robert Gates Secretary of Defense
What does that tell us about the Biden administration’s stance ?
The name of the game is to press weak french politicians (you have no idea how weak Emmanuel Macron is ) to plan for a military designed as a complement to the US military.
The goal is to induce France to relinquish its strategic doctrine of long range in-depth operations supported by Europe’s most powerful navy, air force and amphibious capabilities.
The objective is strategic control for the benefit of the US Navy of France’s maritime domain, the largest in the world.
It is sought after to dismantle parts of France’s defense industry with the help of Germany.
In a “stage blocking session” pertaining to a podcast series on the French-American fight against communism in France I am currently working on, I recall FDR’s intent to put France under US military administration was one of history’s most stupid ideas.
Well, it looks like we have an other one courtesy of the Biden administration.
What lays between France and Eastern Europe? Germany. You know, the country whose close to half of all defense expenditures is funded by US taxpayers and that did not want its troops to do some actual fighting in Afghanistan (1-800-VeeNeedCAS) ?
If you speak with any American officer or servicemen who have had the opportunity to fight alongside french troops, here’s the answer you will get
In Afghanistan, our “chasseurs alpins” could not get enough praise for their of long range patrols without resupply. Truth be told, most US special forces officers and operators I sopke with did not understand why our “troupes de montagnes” were not first tier.
The French military is the only European military capable of operating anywhere on its own without the need to be ferried, resupplied and baby-sitted by the US.
The French military is the most combat seasoned in Europe on any terrain.
France is the only major European NATO member whose defense spending is at par with what it has committed to. Most of the issues listed in the report are the result of political incompetence.
France is the only EU member that possesses serious and effective intelligence capabilities.
If the idea is “burden sharing”, isn’t blatantly stupid to encourage your oldest ally possessing Europe’s most capable military to stop being capable ?
My concern has been for some times now that the Biden administration has adopted the same stance than the Obama administration when Hilary Clinton was Secretary of State and Robert Gates Secretary of Defense : wanting lapdogs not allies.
Is it what’s understood by “multi-lateralism” ? Secretary Blinken public mingling in France’s and the UK’s consular affairs was a signal in that direction. This RAND reports led by a former Obama Administration appointee amplifies it.
Mind my french but when the shit hits the fan, who has any use for a lapdog ?