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General Fabien Mandon, Chief of the French Defense Staff, delivered the stunning remarks at the annual congress of the Association of Mayors of France, by openly declaring that the nation is about to go to war.

Mandon told local leaders that the people of France must accept death, sacrifice, and economic hardship to confront Moscow.

“Russia is convinced that the Europeans are weak,” Mandon asserted.

“However, we are strong, fundamentally stronger than Russia.”

He continued by insisting that France possesses the economic and demographic power to “dissuade Moscow’s regime.”

What France lacks, he argued, is the “strength of soul to accept pain to protect what we are.”

He then spelled out that, in practice, “pain” means the death of French citizens in a foreign conflict.

“If our country is weak because it is not ready to accept losing its children — because it’s better to say things clearly — [and] to suffer economically because the priority will be the defense sector, then we are at risk,” Mandon told the nation’s mayors.

He urged them to carry that message back to their own towns and communities, effectively instructing civic leaders to prepare French families for the idea of young people dying in a European war that voters never asked for.

General Fabien Mandon, Chief of the French Defense Staff, delivered the stunning remarks at the annual congress of the Association of Mayors of France, by openly declaring that the nation is about to go to war.

Mandon told local leaders that the people of France must accept death, sacrifice, and economic hardship to confront Moscow.

"General Fabien Mandon, Chief of the French Defense Staff...
told local leaders that the people of France must accept death, sacrifice, and
economic hardship to confront Moscow."

Patrick says

"General Fabien Mandon, Chief of the French Defense Staff...
told local leaders that the people of France must accept death, sacrifice, and
economic hardship to confront Moscow."

France is preparing for another Russian campaign. According to Grok, "Napoleon’s invasion
of Russia in 1812 (the Patriotic War to Russians, the Russian Campaign to the French) was a
catastrophic strategic failure - one of the most decisive and devastating defeats in military history."