Summary
“France could be leading the American people down a path toward a nuclear conflict decidedly not in the interests of the American people – or of humanity itself, VIPS warns President Joe Biden.”
Transcript
France could be leading the American
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people down a path toward a nuclear
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conflict decidedly not in the interests
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of the American people or of humanity
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itself veps warns President Joe Biden
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alert memorandum for the president from
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veteran intelligence Professionals for
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sanity subject on the brink of nuclear
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war Mr President France is reportedly
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preparing to dispatch a force of some
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2,000 troops roughly a reinforced
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Brigade built around an armored
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Battalion and two mechanized battalions
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with supporting logistical engineering
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and artillery troops attached into
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Ukraine sometime in the not so distant
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future this force is purely symbolic in
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as much as it would have zero
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survivability in a modern high intensity
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conflict of the scope and scale of what
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is transpiring in Ukraine today it would
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not be deployed directly in a conflict
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Zone but would serve either as one a
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screening Force trip wire to stop
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Russia’s advance or to a replacement
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Force deployed to a non-active Zone to
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free up Ukrainian soldiers for combat
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Duty the French Brigade reportedly will
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be supplemented by smaller units from
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the Baltic
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states this would be introducing combat
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troops of a NATO country into a theater
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of war making them lawful targets under
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the law of War such units would
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apparently lack a NATO mandate in
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Russia’s view however this may be a
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distinction without a difference France
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appears appears to be betting naively
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that its membership in NATO would
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prevent Russia from attacking French
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troops rather it is highly likely that
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Russia would attack any french Baltic
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contingent in Ukraine and quickly
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destroy degrade its combat
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viability in that case French president
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Marron May calculate that after Russian
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attacks on the troops of NATO members
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NATO mandate or not he could invoke
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Article 5 of the NATO Charter and get
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the NATO alliance to intervene such
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intervention would likely take the form
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of aircraft operating from NATO Nations
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and perhaps include interdiction
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missions against tactical targets inside
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Russia on precipice of nuclear war
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doctrinally and by legal right Russia’s
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response would be to launch retaliatory
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strikes also against Targets in NATO
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countries if NATO then attacks strategic
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targets inside Russia at that point
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Russia’s nuclear Doctrine takes over and
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NATO decision-making centers would be
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hit with nuclear weapons we do not
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believe Russia will initiate a nuclear
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attack against the us but rather would
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leave it up to the United States to
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decide if it wants to risk destruction
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by preparing to launch a nuclear strike
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on Russia that said Russian strategic
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forces have improved to the point that
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in some areas Hypersonic missiles for
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example its capability surpasses that of
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the US and nato in other words the
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Russian temptation to strike first may
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be a bit stronger than during past
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crises and we are somewhat less
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confident that Russia would want to go
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second another disquieting factor is
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that the Russians are likely to believe
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that macron’s Folly has the tacit
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approval of some key Us and other
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Western officials who seem desperate to
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find some way to alter the trajectory of
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the war in Ukraine the more so as
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elections draw
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near what needs to be done Europe needs
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to understand that France is leading it
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down a path of inevitable
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self-destruction the American people
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need to understand that Europe is
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leading them to the cusp of nuclear
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Annihilation since Russian leaders May
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suspect that macron is working hand in
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glove with Washington the US needs to
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make its position publicly and
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unambiguously clear and if France and
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the baltics insist on sending troops
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into Ukraine it must also be made clear
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that such action has no NATO mandate
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that article 5 will not be triggered by
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any Russian retaliation and that the US
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nuclear Arsenal including those nuclear
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weapons that are part of the NATO
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deterrent force will not be employed as
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a result of any Russian military action
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against French or Baltic troops void of
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such Clarity France would be leading the
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American people down a path toward a
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nuclear conflict decidedly not in the
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interests of the American people or of
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Humanity itself.
Signed By:
VETERAN INTELLIGENCE PROFESSIONALS FOR SANITY
• William Binney, former Technical Director, World Geopolitical & Military Analysis, NSA; co-founder, SIGINT Automation Research Center (ret.) • Marshall Carter-Tripp, Foreign Service Officer (ret) and former Office Director in the State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research • Bogdan Dzakovic, former Team Leader of Federal Air Marshals and Red Team, FAA Security, (ret.) (associate VIPS) • Graham E. Fuller, Vice-Chair, National Intelligence Council (ret.) • Philip Giraldi, C.I.A., Operations Officer (ret.) • Matthew Hoh, former Capt., USMC, Iraq and Foreign Service Officer, Afghanistan (associate VIPS) • James George Jatras, former U.S. diplomat and former foreign policy adviser to Senate leadership (Associate VIPS) • Larry C. Johnson, former C.I.A. and State Department Counter Terrorism officer • John Kiriakou, former C.I.A. Counterterrorism Officer and former senior investigator, Senate Foreign Relations Committee • Karen Kwiatkowski, former Lt. Col., U.S. Air Force (ret.), at Office of Secretary of Defense watching the manufacture of lies on Iraq, 2001-2003 • Douglas Macgregor, Colonel, USA (ret.) (associate VIPS) • Ray McGovern, former U.S. Army infantry/intelligence officer & C.I.A. analyst; C.I.A. Presidential briefer (ret.) • Elizabeth Murray, former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East, National Intelligence Council & C.I.A. political analyst (ret.) • Todd E. Pierce, MAJ, U.S. Army Judge Advocate (ret.) • Pedro Israel Orta, former C.I.A. and Intelligence Community (Inspector General) officer • Scott Ritter, former MAJ, USMC; former U.N. Weapons Inspector, Iraq • Coleen Rowley, FBI Special Agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel (ret.) • Lawrence Wilkerson, Colonel USA, ret.), Distinguished Visiting Professor, College of William and Mary (associate VIPS) • Sarah G. Wilton, CDR, USNR, (ret.); Defense Intelligence Agency (ret.) • Kirk Wiebe, former Senior Analyst, SIGINT Automation Research Center, NSA • Robert Wing, former Foreign Service Officer (associate VIPS) • Ann Wright, retired U.S. Army reserve colonel and former U.S. diplomat who resigned in 2003 in opposition to the Iraq War