French President Emmanuel Macron appeared with a map at the NATO summit today, Thursday, to show how much his country’s troops are doing. for the security of the alliesexplaining how much they can rely on France to show solidarity.
With opinion polls soaring three weeks before the French presidential election, Macron has been able to sideline the “boring” election campaign and focus solely on the Ukraine war and its impact on the world economy.
Emanuel Macron, who spares no effort to mediate between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, entered the race just one month before the first round of the April 10 presidential election. has kept pre-election rallies to a minimum.
He was recently criticized by some voters, who argued that he was too focused on Ukraine and not enough on France.
Today, however, with the eyes of the world on the unprecedented summit of NATO, G7 and European Union leaders to address the worst military crisis in the Old Continent since the Balkan wars of the 1990s, Macron wanted to highlight the as commander-in-chief of his country’s armed forces and stressed that France would adapt to the new strategic stakes.
It is a rare phenomenon to bring leaders components in order to demonstrate their actions. But as a lecturer, Macron turned to a map in digital presentation, pointing.
“From the north to the south of NATO’s east wing, the map here allows you to see all of our current commitments,” he said, as he analyzed the development of the French military, from exercises in Norway to their new presence in Romania, and from the air policing mission in Estonia to the aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean.
Macron wanted to send a message: that he will not be in a hurry. Asked by reporters about Russia’s fears of using chemical weapons in Ukraine, he wanted to appear prudent. He did not set “red lines” that could not be supported by action, as happened when he ordered airstrikes on Syrian targets in 2018 after a “chemical attack”. France’s credibility is at stake, he explained.
Regarding the shipment of weapons to Ukraine, he said that his obligation was not to send tanks and fighter jets, which would lead to a war with Russia, but to continue the existing military support within NATO that would not aim to ” is waging war ”, but to lead to negotiation and a truce.
Macron had warm contacts with state leaders. Handshakes, smiles and a friendly conversation with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson a little further away preparing for the so-called family photo of NATO leaders.
He bent down, resting his hand on the shoulder of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan as they talked in a cordial atmosphere – something unthinkable just a year earlier, when the two leaders were exchanging “nails” on an almost daily basis.
Asked by a Romanian journalist about France’s military presence in his country, Macron smiled and asked … to bring the map again.
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