not wanting to “humiliate Russia, quite frankly, that seems a bit outdated to me”, judge Hillary Clinton

“When we say that we don’t want to humiliate Russia, quite frankly, that seems a bit outdated to me”, said Saturday, June 11 Hillary Clinton in “Foreign Affairs”, the geopolitical program of France Culture. Since the invasion of Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron has repeatedly insisted on the need not to humiliate Russia. A position that irritated the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, and certain countries of the European Union, in particular Poland and the Baltic countries.

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“Putin crossed the red line a long time ago”says the former US Secretary of State and 2016 US presidential candidate. According to her, we are no longer in the era of the collapsed Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, where we tried “to forge a closer relationship with the new Russia”. Today, Vladimir Putin “sees himself as Peter the Great”. This last “was waging an incessant war against Sweden, against the Baltic, Scandinavian and Northern countries for more than twenty years”she explains.

Hillary Clinton invites “everyone to think about” and well “consider what Putin’s goals really are. And it’s likely that those on the front line, the front line of Russian aggression, like the Baltic or Polish leaders, have a much clearer view of who Putin really is and its objectives”she analyzed.

The former head of American diplomacy believes that it is too early to talk about peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. “There are members of NATO, of this transatlantic alliance, together with the European Union, who would very much like to see negotiations open a way towards a resolution. I don’t think we are at that stage yet”says Hillary Clinton.

“I am for the Ukrainians and that means not pushing prematurely for negotiations.”

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“I think that the ultimate success would be the defeat of Putin. And in this I can only agree with what President Zelensky and his government are asking for, that is, a total withdrawal from the territories occupied in Ukraine”she said.