Guillaume Perrault: "The moral disarmament of Europeans facing Erdogan"

Here is a situation as we probably never saw in history:
the head of state of a foreign power, Erdogan, who insults and threatens the 27 countries of the European Union, carries out his threats, and has so far neither aroused firmly blamed nor responded to them diplomatic, or trade sanctions. How, in Europe, would the man in the street not have a feeling of humiliation in front of such an astonishing spectacle?
The idea of ​​starting a showdown, a diplomatic conflict with a hostile foreign state seems to have become inexpressible and, therefore, unthinkable for the European institutions and the heads of state and government of western Europe.

However, we have known since Greek Antiquity that confrontation is inherent in relations between states. A political body, a city is defined in particular by its ability to name its enemies and distinguish them from its allies. Machiavelli, in Le Prince , recommended being feared rather than loved, a choice "much more

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