France faces a “Russian threat” with or without us – politico

“Our generation will no longer collect the dividends of peace. It is up to us to make sure that our children collect the dividends of our commitments tomorrow,” he added.

The French leader spoke Thursday the day before a crisis summit in Brussels, in which the 27 leaders of the European Union will discuss the way of stimulating defense spending and supporting Ukraine following the repeated signals of Washington, he pivots far from Europe and adopting a more conciliatory approach to Russia in the hope of concluding a matter of peace.

Washington has paused the military aid to kyiv and prevented information division with Ukraine after last week’s disastrous meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Macron clearly said he still thought that Ukraine cannot be abandoned on the path of peace, and Europe should not accept a cease-fire without sufficient security guarantees. He added that he would meet with military officials from these countries willing to send peace forces – which are only deployed once the fighting ceases – to apply a future ceasefire in Ukraine in the coming days.

Macron also accused Moscow of “Tests (France)” both on the military front and cyber “and doubled its assertion that Russia had transformed war into Ukraine into” world conflict “.

To cope with this threat without the United States, Macron said that he had decided to open a strategic debate on the widening of France’s nuclear deterrence to protect the country’s European allies – something that the German Chancellor entering Friedrich Merz also pleaded.