The comments by General Fabien Mandon in a speech to local mayors on Tuesday have revived a debate over how far France and its European allies should be prepared to go in the conflict.

El jefe del Estado Mayor del Ejército francés ha generado una polémica por un discurso en que pedía que el país esté dispuesto a sacrificios.

Fabien Mandon claimed that Paris "has all the knowledge, economic and demographic power" to confront Moscow