05/19/2024 – Translated from Ukrainian via Google and OFP
The head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the French National Assembly, Jean-Louis Bourlange, called on the French authorities to follow the example of the United States and Great Britain and allow Ukraine to strike Russian territory with weapons supplied by Paris. According to him, the taboo on attacks on the aggressor country is unjustified, since Ukrainians have the right to self-defense.
According to Le Figaro, on Friday, May 17, the deputy addressed a letter to the French leadership, in which he called on “to get out of the state of waiting and make a decision comparable to the decision of the British and Americans.” “It seems the time has come,” says Bourlange.
He also recalled that Paris “for several months has expressed its desire to be at the forefront of solidarity with Ukraine and inter-allied coordination.”
According to the French parliamentarian, “the change in doctrine is completely legal, since it puts an end to the unacceptable asymmetry between the position of the attacked and the position of the aggressor.”
“In the name of why can we deny Ukrainians the right to respond with a blow to a blow of which they have become victims? The right to self-defense excludes the right to defend the territory of the aggressor,” writes Bourlange.
According to him, this is not about intervention in the theater of military operations, but about lifting an “unjustified taboo.”
Bourlange adds that “in the face of increased Russian aggression, only a rebalancing of forces and a newly discovered symmetry of strategic positions will likely convince Putin to end his disastrous enterprise.”
As OBOZ.UA reported:
– In early May, after a visit to Kiev, British Foreign Minister David Cameron said that London is not against the use of British weapons by Ukraine on the territory of the Russian Federation. According to him, Kyiv has the right to do this – “just as Russia strikes at Ukraine.”
– The head of the US State Department, Antony Blinken, during his trip to Kiev also said that Washington is not against Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory in principle, but avoided directly answering the question of whether the Armed Forces of Ukraine can use American weapons.
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The war has been a slow and difficult trudge through deep molasses during mid-January for Ukraine. The notion about allowing Ukraine to use Western weapons in russia has its parallels to the ideas about sending tanks, long-range missiles, and fighters. At first, the allies always say no, followed by endless discussions, until finally a yes is announced but with too little of what is needed. Concurrently, the trash countries helping the russian fascists have no problems with their stuff being used to exterminate civilians in Ukraine.
Using all available tools to stop and defeat the aggressor, including on his own turf, is the only right thing to do, and everyone knows it. But, as usual, there is not enough spine to go around for everyone who would have to make the righteous decision.