In Moscow on Monday then in Kiev on Tuesday, does Emmanuel Macron hope to repeat the diplomatic coup carried out by Nicolas Sarkozy in August 2008 during the war in Georgia? The former French head of state, who was already in charge of the rotating presidency of the European Union, had jumped to Moscow and Tbilisi a few days after the entry of Russian forces into Georgian territory to play mediators and wrest a ceasefire. -fire to Vladimir Putin. The initiative had made it possible to consolidate its status on the international scene and to calm things down, even if the Kremlin never respected the peace agreements to which it had committed itself.
But the situation is very different from that of 2008. At the time, it was necessary to put an end to a conflict which had just started.
Today it is a question of preventing a new war from starting at the gates of Europe, while Russia has massed more than 100,000 men since the fall on the borders of Ukraine and the Americans are warning of the imminence of a…
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