"Stopping war without making war."
Here, summed up in a few words, is the strategy of the Europeans and therefore that of France vis-à-vis the Ukrainian conflict.
"We want to do everything so that Russia cannot win the war and we want Ukraine to be able to defend its territory, but we do not want a world war,"
said Emmanuel Macron in his July 14 television address.
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Criticized since last month by his Eastern European partners for having affirmed that Russia should not be
"humiliated"
, the French president remained very sober on the subject on Thursday.
He who had hoped for long weeks to be able to wrest a "ceasefire" from the belligerents did not have a word this time to discuss possible negotiations.
On the contrary, the Head of State acknowledged the fact that the war in Ukraine was going to last and that the French should expect difficult months to come, due to Russia's determination to seize…
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