That might be why France wants to be at the front of the line and willing to use its FL not so much to fight the Russians but the Ukrainians. France needs another Niger. Ukraine might be it. The US might be happy to let France have it if this is the price that France has asked for not pivoting to China. It would put France deeper in the US fold and give the US a stronger foothold/ally if Germany starts to get uppity once its people realise what they gave.
The problem with this scheme is that Russia would never agree to this. Whatever is left of Ukraine will end up saddled with puppet regime controlled by Russia.
Does Ukraine have uranium reserves?
yup https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1569486005080149
That might be why France wants to be at the front of the line and willing to use its FL not so much to fight the Russians but the Ukrainians. France needs another Niger. Ukraine might be it. The US might be happy to let France have it if this is the price that France has asked for not pivoting to China. It would put France deeper in the US fold and give the US a stronger foothold/ally if Germany starts to get uppity once its people realise what they gave.
The problem with this scheme is that Russia would never agree to this. Whatever is left of Ukraine will end up saddled with puppet regime controlled by Russia.