Talks between Ukraine and Russia are about to start and Moscow has slowed down the offensive: “We have to hope that this is the start of something, so much the better if Putin, who is a dictator, comes to discuss it, but for us to discuss in good conditions, we must not have any complacency. This means that we must establish a balance of power that will allow us to move towards a peaceful solution, remember that it was he who started the war, that he was the one who invaded Ukraine!”
What matters today is that Europeans are united-former socialist minister Guillaume Garot
Does Vladimir Putin want to reform the former USSR?
This is not the first time that the Russian president has attacked Ukraine. He acted as a submarine in the Crimea crisis in 2014. So why haven’t the Europeans tried for years to block his way? Guillaume Garot who had just entered the Government recognizes that the Westerners let it happen: “in 2014, France provided an answer, France was perhaps too alone at the time, President Hollande immediately canceled military contracts with Russia. Undoubtedly, we let each other fall asleep by this torturous side that there is in Putin who discusses with each other. Today Putin’s strategy is to reconstitute the former USSR and even the Empire of the Tsars. Poland is worried, for example. We have to prevent that.”
Soon a European defense
While Moscow is threatening to use its nuclear force (Russia has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, ahead of the United States), the European Union is thinking of equipping itself with a common defence, an idea welcomed by the deputy Mayenne: “I approve of the proposals of the President of the European Commission, who wants to manufacture weapons in common. It is also a way of being respected and of ensuring that each country can exercise its sovereignty within the framework of a larger entity called the European Union.”