During what is similar to a presidential campaign prescreen, Wednesday, March 2, the head of state drew several perspectives around two pillars: “sovereignty” and “independence”.
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To the end, the circumstances will have stopped establishing Emmanuel Macron. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, launched on February 24, represents the last avatar of a five-year year during which the head of state will be adapted to the crises that strike it, “yellow vests” at the epidemic of COVID -19. Even the tone of the campaign it prepares to launch for the presidential election of April 10 and 24 is now dictated by events. The President of the Republic summarized the content of a formula during a speech delivered from the Elysee, Wednesday, March 2: “Protecting you.”
A promise made to the French, seized of concern by the images of the fighting, the dead, hundreds of thousands of refugees launched on the roads of exile, the nuclear threat brandished by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and the economic and geopolitical consequences of a war whose developments remain unknown. “Hundreds of Ukrainian civilians have been killed. Women and children were killed again this day. The days coming are likely more and more harsh,” said Emmanuel Macron, while the Russian forces are massaged at the doors of Kiev.
Before projecting on the afterwards, the Head of State wanted to place the context of this conflict, this “brutal attack” which constitutes an “unprecedented test for many decades” in Europe and marks the “Brutal return of tragic in history”. According to him, his manager has a name: Vladimir Putin.
A “Demimant and Constant” dialog with Putin
In response to the Russian president’s story, who assures himself to defend his country against alleged expansionist velléities of NATO, the tenant of the Elysée has recalled that “this war is not a conflict between the NATO and the West on the one hand and Russia on the other hand “. “There are no troops or bases of NATO in Ukraine. These are lies. Russia is not assaulted. She is the aggressor,” Macron pointed out.
“President Putin has chosen the war,” he insisted. “Only”, nourished by a “revisionist reading of the history of Europe” and “a spirit of revenge”. That of the head of a former Empire who dreams of making him his grandeur. The head of state took great care to distinguish the Poutinian regime of the Russian people, “this great European people” including a party expresses in manifestations his refusal “than an unworthy war be carried out in [his] name”.
This firm tone with regard to the Kremlin Master is also a way for Emmanuel Macron, to respond to the critics of those who charge him for having taken a sterile dialogue for five years with his counterpart, received in great pomp. At the Castle of Versailles or the fort of brick (var). On February 7, the President of the Republic went to Moscow to try to prevent the war. In vain.
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