“Emmanuel Macron is completely right”
about the possible sending of French troops on the ground, Nicolas Tenzer, a former senior civil servant and one of the main analysts of the war in Ukraine, said this Sunday at Franc Info. for his very firm positions towards Russia.
The day before, the President of the Republic in fact reaffirmed
“that at some point”
it will
“perhaps be necessary to have operations”
in Ukraine.
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“This is something that I have been proposing for more than a year
,” insisted the researcher at CEPA (
Center for European Policy Analysis
), an American think tank based in Washington.
“As we are directly attacked by Russia, it is our war, not just those of the Ukrainians,”
he said.
And added:
“Perhaps one day
Putin
will attack us in a completely military way, that is not something that should be ruled out
. ”
“Russia is not that powerful”
For the professor at Sciences Po, a specialist in geostrategic issues, it is obvious
“that we cannot let only the Ukrainians fight for us”
.
“We have never won a war when we fight behind the scenes, when we have someone else fight our war.
At some point, we must directly ask ourselves the question of commitment.
And it is this taboo that Emmanuel Macron wanted to lift.”
And according to the former senior official,
“Russia is not that powerful.”
“Economically, Russia is a dwarf that is declining.
It is experiencing a flight of capital and talent.
See the state of hospitals, infrastructure, schools,”
he continued.
Specifying that the ratio between Russian troops and NATO troops, on a conventional level, was
“1 to 20”
.
“We too would be physically capable of destroying Russia
,” he finally decided, responding to journalists who questioned him about nuclear weapons and Vladimir Putin's deterrence techniques.
But this scenario is not desirable, insisted Nicolas Tenzer.
“This is why we must accelerate the supply of ammunition and weapons of all kinds.
We must give authorization to the Ukrainians and provide them with weapons to attack Russian territory.”