We
will try to de-escalate all of this.”
On the night of February 2, in the back of a sedan, returning from Brussels, Emmanuel Macron's tone is serious.
Massed on the Ukrainian border, the Russian squadrons have begun their great maneuvers.
Faced with this replica of the Cold War which, for the French president,
"was not thought through to the end"
, Americans and Britons have few illusions about the bellicose ambitions of the master of the Kremlin.
Twenty-two days later, Vladimir Putin's troops enter kyiv.
Shock wave
In the front row, Guy Lagache measures the shock wave that this crisis, the most serious in Europe since the Second World War, causes at the Élysée and, more precisely, within the diplomatic cell that Emmanuel Bonne has headed since 2019. Eager to make an
“educational film”
on
“this big thing that is the EU”
, as he says, the former presenter of “Capital” on M6, ephemeral number two of Radio France, managed to negotiate…
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