Yet Macron wants to deploy French troops to Ukraine. What??
The European media is…slowly…starting to change its story on Ukraine. Or rather, the chickenhawks’ battle cries are gradually giving way to reality.
As detailed in the above video (at the 4:22 mark) around 900,000 draft-age Ukrainian men have fled abroad, most to European Union countries. That was out of a prewar population of about 43 million.
To put that in perspective: during the Vietnam War, around 50,000 American men fled to Canada to avoid the draft. That was from a US population of around 203 million.
This means that the number of Ukrainian men who have fled abroad to avoid fighting for their own country, on their own soil, is infinitely larger than the number of American men who fled abroad to avoid fighting in Southeast Asia, in a country that most of them had barely heard of.
Ergo, the Russo-Ukrainian War is [much] less popular with draft-age Ukrainian men in 2024 than the Vietnam War was with draft-age American men in 1968.
That’s a problem, for obvious reasons. And it does support the argument that the war is ultimately a NATO proxy war against Russia.
At the same time, European chickenhawks like French President Emmanuel Macron and EU President Ursula von der Leyen continue to beat the war drums. Neither of them has ever served in the military of any country
Macron has even suggested deploying French troops should the draft-dodger-depleted Ukrainian lines break.
Wouldn’t it make sense to put the Ukrainian draft dodgers on the front lines first? Or is it time to radically reassess the current Western strategy of “fight until the last Ukrainian?”