The reactions were quick.
Monday evening, at the end of an international conference in support of Ukraine which brought together 21 heads of state in Paris, Emmanuel Macron explained that the sending of Western troops in the future could not “be excluded” .
A hypothesis that is still distant, therefore, since there is no consensus on this issue between Ukraine's allies, as the head of state clarified.
But “everything is possible if it is useful to achieve our objective,” he said from the Élysée.
An offensive position, which did not fail to provoke a reaction, particularly on the left.
The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, denounced a “worrying presidential levity” on his X account: “Support the Ukrainian resistance yes.
Go to war with Russia and drag the continent away.
Madness,” he insisted.
“Nothing can ever be ruled out in war”
A term taken up by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“War against Russia would be madness,” denounced the leader of France Insoumise on the night of Monday to Tuesday, deeming Emmanuel Macron’s declarations “irresponsible.”
“Sending troops to Ukraine would make us belligerents (…) This bellicose verbal escalation of a nuclear power against another major nuclear power is already an irresponsible act,” protested the former presidential candidate. presidential election on X. “It is high time to negotiate peace in Ukraine with mutual security clauses!
" he added.
Sending troops to Ukraine would make us belligerents.
War against Russia would be madness.
This belligerent verbal escalation by a nuclear power against another major nuclear power is already an irresponsible act.
Parliament must be seized and…
— Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@JLMelenchon) February 26, 2024
The national coordinator of LFI Manuel Bompard also strongly criticized the announcements of the Head of State, believing that “considering sending French troops to fight against Russia is total madness”.
“What Emmanuel Macron said is that we were going to continue to support” kyiv as since the start of the conflict, began Gabriel Attal this Tuesday morning, when he was questioned about the comments of the head of the Status on RTL.
“Nothing can ever be ruled out in a war, in the same way as two years ago (
at the start of the conflict
).
At the time, many countries said:
we exclude sending weapons, even if only to defend themselves
.
Today, we are sending long-range missiles,” continued the Prime Minister.
“What (the head of state) reminded us is that in the future, we exclude nothing,” he concluded.