France have successfully tested the first shot of a renewed supersonic nuclear missile within an operation that aims at “operational credibility” and while Emmanuel Macron continues to agitate the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine.
The test was carried out in flight from a Rafale aircraft of the Strategic Air Forces, and the missile was a renovated ASMPA but no military cargo on boardas announced by the French minister defense, Sebastien Lecornu, who has not revealed where this test was carried out.
The operation had been planned “for a long time”, although the truth is that it took place shortly after Russian nuclear maneuvers near the Ukrainian border.
The success of the operation shows “the ambition” of the nuclear deterrence French and its “operational credibility,” Lecornu added.
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Macron: “Russia cannot win this war”
This military movement comes 20 days after the French president once again insisted on the possibility of deploying European troops in Ukraine under the premise that “Russia cannot win this war” and that kyiv’s allied countries will have to rethink how far they are willing to go, as they have done on other occasions since the start of the invasion in February 2022.
“If the Russians break the front lines, if there is a Ukrainian request (…) we would have to legitimately ask ourselves the question,” Macron said during an interview with The Economist. “I don’t rule out anything because we are facing someone who doesn’t rule out anything”he alleged, in an allusion to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
In this sense, he has regretted the “hesitation” of the allies when it comes to establishing “limits” and has pointed out that “credibility” depends largely on not giving full visibility to what one is willing to do or not. “Otherwise, we are weaker”, the president has warned.
Macron has been insisting for months that the security of Europe is at stake, since it assumes that, if Russia achieves its objectives in Ukraine, it will not cease its expansionist ambition and, furthermore, the “credibility” of all European countries will be called into question. “So yes, we can’t rule anything out because our objective is that Russia cannot win in Ukraine,” he said.
“To rule something out at first is to not have learned the lessons of the last two years. At the 2022 summer NATO summit, We all rule out the delivery of tanks, long-range missiles, and airplanes. Now we are all in the process of carrying it out, so we would be wrong to rule out the rest,” he recalled on May 2.
It should be remembered that Macron’s first direct allusion to the potential sending of troops was last February, something that sparked a whole battery of clarifications from other partners of the Atlantic Alliance.
Despite this, Macron has always defended that this was necessary “wake-up call.” However, his message did receive a certain echo in countries closer to Russia, such as the Baltic countries, which agreed with Macron that red lines could not be set.
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