Vincent Desportes is a major general in the French Army and former director of the École de Guerre. He argues that there is a lack of a real European defense strategy in Ukraine.
Only radical measures will push Russia back, he argues. "We have the right to love Tolstoy, Chekhov and Tchaikovsky but not to let the Russian army advance," he says. "It is not Russia that we are fighting, but a political project and the unacceptable return to the worst of our history"