While the Russian strikes continue on civil infrastructure, the Head of State evokes “the security guarantees” to be granted to Moscow after the war.
by Philippe Ricard
The protrusion is not a blunder. Rather, it expresses a deep conviction by Emmanuel Macron. The sentence pronounced by the Head of State with a view to offering “security guarantees” to Russia, when the fighting ceases, aroused an uproar in the east of the European continent, more than nine months after the invasion Russian from Ukraine. “What are we ready to do to give guarantees for her own security to Russia the day she returns to the negotiating table?” Asked the head of state, in a Interview on TF1, Saturday December 3. “One of the essential points is the fear that NATO comes to its doors, it is the deployment of weapons that can threaten Russia,” he said, seeming to take back the arguments put forward by Moscow to justify his offensive.
Ukraine was quick to react, at a time when Russia strives to destroy its civil infrastructure in order to undermine the morale of its population, by depriving it of heating and electricity this winter. “Someone wants to provide security guarantees to a terrorist and murderer state?” Launched the secretary of the National Ukrainian Security and Defense Council, Oleksi Danilov, on Twitter.
For the Polish Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister, Marcin Przydacz, Mr. Macron “makes a mistake by saying what he says”. “Vladimir Putin has a mental structure that makes any attempt at contact, appeasement, reinforce him psychologically,” he observed in an interview broadcast in Poland. The Latvian Deputy Prime Minister, Artis Paubriks, believes that the idea of giving security to Russia “is to fall into the trap of Putin’s story that the West and Ukraine are responsible for war “.
” Illisible and inaudible speech “
The comments recall those pronounced in May by Emmanuel Macron, when he invited to “not humiliate” Moscow, while many of Ukraine allies wish in the first place the defeat of Russia on the ground, C ‘that is to say its complete withdrawal from the occupied territories, including Crimea, annexed unilaterally in 2014. Each time, the words of the Head of State undermine its relations with the capitals of the east of the continent, Despite military, diplomatic and financial support that France brings to Ukraine. Bruno Tirtrais, Deputy Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research, speaks of an “illegible and inaudible discourse, and especially counterproductive for his own European agenda”.
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