Hot climate between France and Russia. The transformation of the transalpine president Emmanuel Macron from dove to hawk towards Moscow triggered a muscular reaction from the Kremlin. But let’s go step by step. It all started with the idea of the number one in the Elysée to send Western troops to support Ukraine. Proposal rejected by partners, USA and EU. But Macron decided to carry on, regardless of Putin’s possible reaction. Yesterday he reiterated that the hypothesis is on the table, the French military could side with Kiev. And here is Russia’s clear response: “France is already at war.”
And it’s impossible not to notice difference of views with Western partners, firmly against sending soldiers. According to Le Monde, this is a natural evolution, following Macron’s diplomatic commitment as mediator with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, and which ultimately “clashed with his all-out belligerent logic”. “Emmanuel Macron’s statements are always extremely consistent,” the version of Elysée sources says.
As anticipated, the Kremlin’s reaction was not long in coming. The spokesperson Dmitri Peskov he assured that France “is already involved in the war in Ukraine”. Paris “participates indirectly in this war,” he added: “And, judging by Mr. President’s statements, it is not reluctant to increase the level of its involvement.” The statements of the head of Russian foreign intelligence have an absolutely different tone, Sergei Naryshkin, who branded the words of the French president as “crazy and paranoid dreams”. Updates will follow but the sensations are not positive: maximum attention must be paid to the possible repercussions of certain crazy declarations.
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