Emmanuel Macron has said that the West may have to send ground troops to Ukraine to support their war against Russia. The president of France made his comments on Monday as he hosted a conference at the Elysée palace about how best to support Ukraine. In attendance were more than 20 European heads of state and government, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, as well as representatives from the USA and Canada.
The cynic might wonder if Macron’s grandstanding isn’t a last desperate attempt to claw back some authority before June’s European elections
Macron admitted that there was not a consensus on deploying ground troops to Ukraine but ‘no option should be discarded. We will spare no effort to ensure that Russia does not emerge victorious in this conflict’. If Russia was not defeated, he added, it would threaten ‘Europe’s security and stability’.
Macron’s comments were criticised by his domestic opponents. Marine Le Pen of the National Rally accused the president of acting like a ‘warlord’.
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