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Sending troops to Ukraine: Emmanuel Macron is “quite obliged” to “leave doubt on this hypothesis”, believes historian Jean Garrigues
Sending troops to Ukraine: Emmanuel Macron is “quite obliged” to “leave doubt on this hypothesis”, believes historian Jean Garrigues
(franceinfo)
While Emmanuel Macron receives party leaders to discuss the conflict in Ukraine, Thursday March 7, historian Jean Garrigues is the guest of 12/13 info. He returns to the controversy sparked by the head of state’s comments on a possible sending of Western ground troops to Ukraine in the future.
Emmanuel Macron receives party leaders to discuss the war in Ukraine, Thursday March 7. The question of aid to kyiv will be addressed in particular. This meeting comes a few days after his controversial comments on a possible sending of troops Western on the ground in Ukraine in the future. “It was awkward”judges the historian Jean Garrigues, in the 12/13 info of Thursday March 7.
A “necessary overmobilization”
However, “from a geostrategic point of view, it is quite necessary to be in this position, to leave doubt about this hypothesis, especially since we know well that the war will still last, that Vladimir Putin will not is not at all ready to give ground and that military operations are rather favorable to it at the moment”nuance the author ofÉlysée against Matignon, the infernal couple (Tallandier editions).
“So there is necessarily an over-mobilization which is necessary, and perhaps also an electric shock in the minds, because we know well that French opinion, today, is very pacifist”believes Jean Garrigues. “When we examine what was happening at the end of the 1930s, particularly after the Munich agreements in 1938 with what we called the Munich spirit, there is a little music today that makes us think of this period -there. That is to say, we have the impression of underestimating the danger that Vladimir Putin may represent.”he analyzes.
