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Emmanuel Macron's comments on the possibility of sending ground troops to Ukraine unleashed comments this week.
Should we see this as an awkwardness dictated by difficulties at home or as a thoughtful exit confronting Europeans with their contradictions in their support for Ukraine?
In the columns of Le
Figaro
, former ministers Pierre Lellouche and Jean-Pierre Chevènement see it as a strategic mistake and a dangerous escalation, while former ambassador Michel Duclos salutes the courage of the President of the Republic.
There is a great temptation to look to the past to understand the present.
What gear guides us?
Are we in 1914 like sleepwalkers (to use Christopher Clarck's expression) marching towards war or in 1938 like cowards flattening ourselves in the face of imperialism?
We criticize the “Munich spirit” in a rather mechanical way, often forgetting to recall the context of the Munich agreements.
If…
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