“If the situation were to deteriorate, we would be ready.
» Thursday, during an interview given to 8 p.m. on TF1 and France 2, Emmanuel Macron tried to clarify his comments on the situation in Ukraine.
“We will never lead the offensive, we will never take the initiative, France is a force for peace.
But to have peace, it is not necessary to be weak,” he said.
Through his recent declarations, the Head of State is thus cultivating the doctrine of “strategic ambiguity”, heir to the theories of Sun Tzu in “The Art of War”.
A principle that could be described as “contrary” to that of the red line.
“The objective is to say that we are capable of doing many things, but not to say what we are going to do.
We must maintain doubt,” explains General Jérôme Pellistrandi, editor-in-chief of the Revue Défense nationale.
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