France launches a serious warning to navigators. In one, President Emmanuel Macron He has warned that if he does not stop for the Russian president, which invaded Ukraine in 2022, “Surely he will go for Moldova and maybe further, to Romania”. Russian expansionism is not going to stop in Ukraine if there is no fair peace, Macron warns.
His statement came after, on February 28, which ended with the Lack of a mineral agreement for security, and on the eve of an emergency security summit of the EU countries and the United Kingdom in London, in which Europe .
Macron proposed in the same interview the “Europeization“Of their nuclear shield, that is, a strategic dialogue with European countries that do not have nuclear weapons. France and the United Kingdom are The only countries European They have a nuclear arsenal.
“We have a shield, they don’t. And They can no longer depend on American nuclear deterrence. We need a strategic dialogue with those who do not have it, and that would make France stronger“Macron told the newspaper The Parisian.
He also told the newspaper Sunday newspaper I know They would need between five and ten years to build a European defense Autonomous and independent of NATO.
Bet on the truce
The Franco-British proposal of a truce of One month without fighting between Russia and Ukraine is A way to test If Vladimir Putin really wants to commit to a peace process, he also explained Monday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot.
The objective of that “truce” would be “to test the good faith of Vladimir Putin” about his will to initiate peace negotiations, he said in an interview with the public radio France Inter, in which he has insisted that “We want a solid and lasting peace”.
A way of pointing out that you cannot repeat what happened after Minsk agreements That they signed a dozen years ago between Ukraine and Russia, and that then, in their opinion, Moscow Vioó.
The idea of a one month “In the air, in the sea and in energy infrastructure”, That it is supposed to not lead to, however the withdrawal of the troops was launched on Sunday during the Ukraine Allies Summit organized in London.
The head of French diplomacy has underlined the seriousness of the situation: “The risk of a war in the European continent, in the European Union, has never been so great because the threat keep approaching us. The front line does not stop approaching. “
In his opinion, at the London Summit there has been “A awakening of a part of Europeans”after the turn given by the administration of Donald Trump.
Asked about whether Europeans cannot do without the United States, their response has not been direct. He has indicated that “In the short term” what you want is for Washington to put pressure on Putin to feel at a negotiating table and end with “Your imperialist ambitions”.
He has then recognized that “We do not want to be in the situation we are in,” That is, having to ask the United States to guarantee the safety of Europeans.
As for the possible shipment of European troops to Ukraine, Barrot has repeated that this would not happen during the truce that French and British pose, but in a second phase, “once Peace has concluded to definitively dissuade the threat“.
And to the question of the total opposition of the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, the French minister has been convinced that “All Europeans” are aware in view of the experience of Minsk’s agreements that “A high fire is not enough.”
Also that it will have to be Europeans who assume that we have to contribute “the essential” of the guarantees for peace to be lasting and that each country will do so “According to its capacity and according to your will.”
The head of French diplomacy has said that his country works in the restoration of the dialogue between Donald Trump and Volodimir Zelenski, after the confrontation in front of the cameras last Friday at the White House, and does so with both parts. In his opinion “It is in the interest of the Ukrainians”but also of the Europeans and of the Americans themselves to stop the “imperialist” veleities of Russia.
Barrot has once again pointed out that the provision shown by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, To expand the coverage of its nuclear deterrence to other European allies does not mean that Paris will share the decision on the appeal to the atomic weapon.
“The idea,” is not argued, “is not to share nuclear deterrence, but to develop in Europe a culture of the deterrence“, and that through” a strategic dialogue in depth “and also with the participation of other countries in” deterrent forces exercises. ”
