Emmanuel Macron's comments on the hypothetical sending of Western troops to Ukraine have sparked emotion and controversy. No more than the announcement of a debate followed by a vote in Parliament on the bilateral security agreement concluded with kyiv on February 16.
Such excitement shows that the idea of war has definitively reestablished itself in our minds. For eighty years and the end of the Second World War, France had lived in the illusion of eternal peace, a liberation without turning back. The fall of the Berlin Wall and theend of conscription in 2001 reinforced this feeling.