The political excitement which followed, in the National Assembly but also in certain allied capitals of France, the words of Emmanuel Macron when he affirmed
“not to exclude”
the sending of
“troops”
to Ukraine, reveals the the extent of the dizziness that grips Europeans in the face of accelerating changes in the world.
The continent, which since the end of the Cold War thought it had definitively driven war from its soil and could live eternally on the dividends of peace, is today caught in the turmoil of a multitude of seesaws.
As it opens its eyes to the new realities of the world, Europe is dizzy.
The first shift is the exhaustion of the Franco-German engine, which had provided part of its energy to Europe for so long but which was extinguished by the breath of the war in Ukraine and today finds itself with reversed fronts. .
Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Berlin and Paris had a policy towards the East…
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