Emmanuel Macron assured that sending French soldiers to Ukraine as part of a Western coalition should not
“be ruled out”.
His declaration aroused an outcry in France, and abroad, rejection from Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The emotion aroused by the remarks of the Elysée host can be explained by history: France has entered into war several times without having really wanted to.
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In 1914, on July 29, neither the President of the Council, René Viviani, nor the President of the Republic, Raymond Poincaré
"believed in war"
, according to the testimony of Abel Ferry, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, came to welcome the two men in Dunkirk as they returned from a long-planned official trip to Saint Petersburg.
However, a month had passed since the assassination of the Archduke of Austria in Sarajevo and, above all, six days since Austria's ultimatum to Serbia.
The day before, July 28, Vienna had…
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