It's well known.
France is convinced of “thinking strategically”.
To be a leader in Europe on the overall vision, that of the long term, of the geopolitical “imagination”.
But why, then, does it persist in regularly missing all the historical strategic and diplomatic checkpoints?
All the major turning points, which require, precisely, imagination, audacity and courage?
We remember the astounding ardor with which Mitterrand worked in 1989 to prevent the reunification of Germany, the countdown of which was, however, staring us in the face.
From his barely hidden support for the conservative communist putschists in Moscow in 1991. And from his hesitation in letting go of Milosevic's Serbia, when it embarked on a bloody war of reconquest in Croatia that same year.
Thirty years later, the strange and downright embarrassing stubbornness with which President Macron intends to protect Putin's Russia from a supposed "humiliation", while this…
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