“We see that the red lines have been advancing since the start of the conflict.
In February 2022, we just deliver helmets and we are afraid of being co-belligerent.
Today, we deliver artillery systems,” analyzes Thibault Fouillet, research fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research.
On January 25, Volodymyr Zelensky asked Westerners to speed up their aid to Ukraine by delivering fighter planes.
If a few weeks ago it seemed impossible to see Western countries invest so much in the war, today it is “a probability that we can no longer rule out, believes Thibault Fouillet.
The political discourse is more and more favorable to it”.
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“By definition, nothing is excluded,” said President Emmanuel Macron on January 30 in The Hague.
Provided that these requests are “useful for the Ukrainian army, according to the deadlines.
That the equipment we provide is not intended to touch Russian territory but to help in the effort to protect Ukrainian soil.
And that it does not come to weaken the capacities of the French army to protect its fellow-citizens”, specified the president of the Republic.
According to Thibault Fouillet, the fighter planes that France could supply (if it decides to supply any) will not be latest-generation planes like the Rafale, but rather "old Mirages, or Alphajet".
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