Bertrand Badie, expert in international relations, believes that the declaration of Emmanuel Macron, who affirmed Monday evening, that sending Western troops to the future could not “be excluded”, sends useful messages to Putin but also to the United States. “It’s a way of telling them, at a time when they no longer really know how to position themselves on aid to Ukraine, when they, like Trump, make fun of European weaknesses, that we are ready for anything”