Sky News reports that France is re-introducing national service for the 'fatherland' - sound familiar?

[https://news.sky.com/story/france-reveals-new-national-military-service-amid-fears-of-russian-threat-13476148]

France reveals new national military service amid fears of Russian threat

As more countries look to strengthen their defences, Moscow has accused European leaders of warmongering and consistently denied any threat to wider Europe.

There is a generation ready to rise up for the fatherland,' said President Macron.

The Russians couldn't even roll over Ukraine and France thinks they are going to roll over all of eastern Europe to get to Paris. Bonkers!

This kind of warmongering nonsense is just a deflection from the many other problems that France has that Macron is unable to solve so he takes refuge in the the 'coalition of the willing' and his bromance with Zelensky.

Meanwhile the UK is struggling to work out how to pay for adding a few thousand troops to the army and Germany is rearming to prepare for the Fourth Reich:

The German parliament is expected to vote on the military service plan in December.

As one German general told me: "We are not at war, but we are no longer living in peacetime...

Actually many people think that Germans are no longer living in Germany as the country is far from what it used to be.