A new study on young people and war was published Friday by organizations of the Ministry of the Armed Forces. One in two young people between 18 and 25 say they are ready to commit to France in Ukraine.
A quarter of boys (24%) answered “yes absolutely”, compared to 12% of girls. Nearly a third of young French people (31%) said they were in favor of deploying French troops in Ukraine (compared to 17% of those aged 50 and over) The possibility of a nuclear conflict, raised by Russia, is widely feared (69%). The use of nuclear weapons “against a country in the event of a major conflict” even receives 49% of favorable opinions, who consider it either “acceptable in certain cases” or “completely acceptable”. A large majority of respondents (62%) consider that “it would be a good thing to once again establish compulsory military service’, abolished in 1997 and partially reintroduced by several European countries such as Sweden.