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Hubert Védrine: "If we make this war a war of civilization, it will not stop"

2023-02-19T19:01:20.960Z


BIG INTERVIEW - One year after the start of the conflict in Ukraine, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs considers that we are in the most serious moment since the start of the war.


On February 24, 2022, on the orders of Vladimir Putin, Russian troops invaded Ukraine.

A year after the beginning of the conflict, we gave the floor to specialists, but also to philosophers, historians, writers, to shed light, each in their own way, on this war which changed the world.

Former diplomatic adviser to François Mitterrand, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hubert Védrine spent 19 years at the heart of the French diplomatic machine.

Doing everything so that Ukraine wins without giving way to a direct confrontation with Russia, such is the only tenable crest line in the long term.

Holding a "realistic" school in international relations, Hubert Védrine responds to accusations of complacency and blindness vis-à-vis Putin.

He maintains that the West made a double error: that of arrogance in the 1990s and that of cowardice in the most recent period.

Making this war in Ukraine a war...

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Source: lefigaro

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