I have no idea whether selling DPI is a French speciality or not , but I do know that there isn’t a major power anywhere that hasn’t compromised its ‘values’ when dealing with unsavoury regimes is to its own strategic advantage.
Where I do agree with you is that Macron has been spectacularly , and dangerously , naïve in his dealings with Putin , as he also was with Trump before him. He seems to have grossly over-estimated his own powers of persuasion and equally under-estimated the craft and cunning of his antagonists.
Unfortuneately he is correct here, under Sarkozy there was a point where the USA put a whole heap of countries on a list that arms could not be exported to. At the same time France took most of those ‘forbidden’ countries back on the export list. The result for the first time France outstripped the USA in money made from arm deals. I can not be bothered to look it up but remember it well as some of the stuff said about it ‘here’ I found outrageous.
Yet I am disgusted by a lot of the ‘anti’ France shit going around and the naivity of it as well. ‘They’ really haven’t a clue and I’m finding it disturbing as little of it has founding in reality.
In what way is Macron demanding Putin decree a cease fire a foriegn policy failure for example. It’s what Ukraine want so that serious negociations can take place. That it isn’t fructuous is down to Putin not Macron. At least someone it demanding what is needed much better than what Belarusse or Turkey would ever do.
What a weird question. I have read it (I don’t share something I haven’t read or only based on the title), and shared it because I thought it provides an interesting perspective about Macron and the situation in Ukraine.
At this point, I still have no idea about what you don’t seem to agree on or why the source of this article makes you instantly dismiss it.
There should be a steady stream of world leaders and politicians in and out of Kiev,publicly and on a regular basis.It might make Russia hesitate,if not rethink any ideas they might have of attacking the capital again if a president or prime minister of a far superior power could potentially be caugjt up in it.
