Enter Emmanuel Macron
Russia is our enemy. The Kremlin regime is our enemy. We are ready to respond to a possible escalation on the part of Russia.
We just had an important media event in France. First off, realize the President of France tried very hard to stop the invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022. Macron spent hours talking to Vladimir Putin, trying to de-escalate; as we know, Russia did invade in a three-day special military operation that, two years on, continues.
Here are some of the translated sections of the interview he gave:
“WE ARE NOT IN A FICTION”
“I am probably the leader in responsibility who spoke to him the most,” says Emmanuel Macron about his relationship with Vladimir Putin. “Things are not personal and besides, I don’t want to personalize them here. It doesn’t make sense. We are not in a fiction, it is not a novel or a series.” “If Ukraine falls, it is our security that is threatened. (…) We are in a time, and this is the one I assume, which consists in saying if Russia continued its escalation, if the situation were to deteriorate, we must be ready and we will be ready. And to be ready, we will be ready and we will be ready to take the necessary decisions so that Russia never wins.”