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Why is Macron so desperate to bring Russia in from the cold?

France's leader is taking the wrong lesson from the fallout after the First World War

President Macron appears alongside Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on his visit to Kyiv (Credit: Getty images)
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Professor John Keiger is the former research director of the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge. He is the author of France and the Origins of the First World War.

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