Correspondent in Moscow
Presidents like states have no friends, it is said, only interests.
We should not overestimate the warm words of Vladimir Putin inviting Emmanuel Macron to come to Moscow, Thursday evening, during their third telephone discussion in a week.
“You are a quality interlocutor.
I am waiting for you.
We will take the time to get to the bottom of things
, ”the master of the Kremlin would have confided in substance to his interlocutor, according to a source close to the French president.
Between the two men, who have disappointed each other a lot for five years and who will have a long conversation this Monday in Moscow, there is therefore no affect to be expected.
This is not the issue.
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