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Despite almost general disavowal, French President Emmanuel Macron persists and signs. Instead of backpedaling and diluting his comments made last February concerning the sending of French troops and more generally those of NATO to the Ukrainian front, he is trying to convolute surrealist ideas on the deployment in Ukraine with French and/or Atlanticist troops to block the Russian advance on the ground.
Not content with having been disowned by the political class of his country and on the part of his main European and Atlanticist partners, Macron persists in wanting to play warlords. Irrational just after the state visit to France by Chinese President Xi Jinping, a great international supporter of Russia and its President Vladimir Putin.
In a video published Saturday May 11 on social networks, in which he reiterates that he does not rule out military intervention in Ukraine, President Macron estimated that Europeans must “be ready to act” to “dissuade” the Russians if they these had to go “too far”. In this video of approximately 15 minutes, the French president affirmed that “If we let this happen in Ukraine, it is the law of the strongest and we cannot be safe”.
Playing on words and using sophist arguments, Emmanuel Macron even allowed himself to be very reassuring when his remarks announced exactly the opposite. “No, we are not going to war,” he responded to a Snapchat question, asserting that he had “done everything for almost 7 years to have peace.”
However, “being a power of peace does not mean being weak”, he continued, affirming that “at some point we must be able to dissuade Russia from continuing to advance”. “A lot of our future and our security” is at stake in Ukraine, insisted the French president, brandishing the risk of a Russian attack against countries such as “Romania, Poland, Lithuania”, all members of the NATO, or that France could lose “all credibility”. Empty words that are based on assumptions and calculations, whereas in strategy, only facts count.
While the French arms industry, like that of Europe and the United States, is slowing down, the French head of state even allowed himself the luxury of announcing more military aid to kyiv “in the coming weeks”, before continuing: “but we must also say at some point that if the Russians go too far, all of us Europeans must be ready to act to dissuade them”.
Leaning on the madman’s strategy, President Macron, in an interview with The Economist on May 2, reaffirmed the option of French intervention in Ukraine. “I do not exclude anything, because we have before us someone who excludes nothing,” he declared.
“We must not exclude anything because our goal is that Russia can never win in Ukraine,” he said.
“If the Russians were to break through the front lines, if there was a Ukrainian request, which is not the case today, we should legitimately ask ourselves the question,” assured the French president, after having underlined that Paris had “at the request of sovereign States” deployed “several thousand men in the Sahel” in the context of the fight against terrorists. The problem is that the head of the Elysée pretends to forget that Ukraine is not the Sahel and that Russia is very far from being compared to a horde of terrorists who act as subcontractors for the account of their masters.
In Moscow, it is more irony than anything else that emerges from the analysis of the French president’s statements. In reaction to the interview given to the English magazine The Economist, the spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova did not mince her words. “Apparently it has something to do with the days of the week, it’s its cycle,” she quipped in comments quoted by the TASS agency.
However, on May 6, the Russian army announced that it had been instructed by Vladimir Putin to prepare exercises for the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons. Maneuvers linked to the declarations of Emmanuel Macron and David Cameron, Dmitri Peskov specified, believing that these required “particular attention and special measures”.
As a reminder, the head of British diplomacy declared on the same day that the interview with the French president appeared to support any Ukrainian strike that could be carried out on Russian soil with British weapons.
The fact remains that the “strategic ambiguity” desired by Macron and which justifies his declarations of deployment of troops in Ukraine has not aroused the enthusiasm of his European and Atlanticist partners. Germany, Sweden, Poland, Spain and the Czech Republic considered that sending troops to Ukraine was not possible at the moment. Slovakia was even more critical. Even Washington stood out. “There will be no American troops engaged on the ground in Ukraine,” National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby declared.
Macron’s strategic myopia is matched only by the Ukrainian debacle on the ground and its share of coffins of French mercenaries and those of different nationalities, fallen into cannon fodder to satisfy the wishes of Zelensky and his sponsors.