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Macron: Europe must be ready for war if it wants peace. Putin will not stop!

2024-03-15 07:56:48Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Macron: Europe must be ready for war if it wants peace. Putin will not stop!
Emmanuel Macron

French President Emmanuel Macron has called Vladimir Putin's Russia an adversary that will not stop in Ukraine if it defeats Kiev's troops in the two-year conflict, urging Europeans not to be "weak" but to get ready to the answer.

He said that Europe must get ready for war if it wants peace.

Last month, Macron caused controversy when he declared that he did not rule out the possibility of deploying ground troops to Ukraine in the future, while many leaders distanced themselves from this position while others, especially in Eastern Europe, supported the idea.

"If Russia wins this war, Europe's credibility would be reduced to zero," Macron said during a televised interview in France, after French opposition leaders criticized him for announcing the deployment of troops to Ukraine.

But Macron said he does not agree with the opposition leaders at all.

"Today, choosing to abstain or vote against supporting Ukraine is not choosing peace, but choosing defeat. There is a difference," he said. Macron's main opposition party of far-right Marine Le Pen abstained earlier in the week in a vote on a security deal France signed with Ukraine, while a left-wing party voted against.

"If the war expands to Europe, Russia will be blamed. But if we decide to be weak, if we decide today that we will not respond, it means that we have already chosen defeat. I don't want that," he said.

He said it was important for Europe not to draw red lines, which he said would send a signal of weakness to the Kremlin and encourage Russia to continue its occupation of Ukraine. He declined to provide details on what a deployment to Ukraine would look like.

"I don't want this. I want Russia to stop the war and withdraw from its positions and allow there to be peace," he said. “I won't give details to someone who doesn't give me anything. This is for President Putin. I have reasons for not being precise," he said.

Macron said that France would never launch an offensive against Russia and that Paris is not at war with Moscow, despite the fact that Russia has launched aggressive attacks on French interests in and outside of France.

"The Kremlin regime is an adversary," Macron said, refusing to call Russia an enemy. He also said that Putin is making threats of nuclear attacks, which according to him, are not appropriate statements. Macron said that Ukraine is in a "difficult" situation on the ground and that it needs strong support from allies. .

"Peace does not mean the capitulation of Ukraine. If you want peace it does not mean defeat. "Peace does not mean that we give up on Ukraine," he said.

The French leader also said that he hopes that one day peace will be negotiated with a Russian president "whoever he is".

He also announced that he did not cancel the planned visit to Ukraine for security reasons. "That's what Russia said. You shouldn't trust them," he said.


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