Guest of France 2 on Thursday March 3, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian issued a warning about the war in Ukraine. “ The worst may be ahead of us “, he warned. And to clarify: We can fear a siege logic. (…) We are as determined as Vladimir Putin, perhaps even more ».
For this lawyer of the European digital certificate, “ Putin’s will is to prevent there from being at his doorstep democratic models that could eventually influence the development of Russia. “Russian President Vladimir Putin wants” the denial of Ukraine and the denial at its gates of a democratic country “, hammered the French Minister of Foreign Affairs.
A “we” that challenges
The use of ” we raised many questions, since France is not at war with Russia. In any case, this is what the Minister of the Economy Bruno le Maire said on March 1: “ We are not in conflict with the Russian people “, he assured as a hasty rectification of his remarks made a little earlier in the day on France info. Before being addressed by the vice-president of the Security Council of Russia with a scathing historical reminder of the consequences of such a speech, the minister had drummed that France would deliver ” an all-out economic and financial war on Russia ».
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Through this bias against Russia, several political leaders see in the Ukrainian conflict both a way for the government to accentuate the advancement of ” vigilance society wanted by Emmanuel Macron, and a deliberate submission to the decisions of the European Commission. This, in fact, does not replace the foreign policy of its Member States.
If since the Maastricht Treaty (1992), the Brussels institutions have aimed to harmonize the foreign policies of the Member States through the CFSP (the common foreign and security policy), the government website French points out: Each Member State of the European Union (EU) retains most of its powers in the conduct of its foreign policy “. As such, France is not forced to follow the belligerent decisions of the European Union against Russia. Emmanuel Macron also recalled this on Wednesday evening: “ We are not at war with Russia. »
Also, these contradictions in the speech and the acts were denounced Thursday morning the president of the Patriots, Florian Philippot, and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, presidential candidate, the first noting an overexploitation of the « narrative of fear » and the second a submission to the fatality of the conflict and to the European Union decisions “. A story echoed by the president of the UPR, François Asselineau, in a video on his YouTube channel. Noting the presence of the French, Ukrainian and European flags, he insisted that ” the global diplomatic tradition wants a head of state to address his fellow citizens in front of the official flag of his country. ” The Ukrainian flag and the EU flag have nothing to do here “, he asserted.
It remains to be seen whether this we used by Jean-Yves le Drian is a prediction as to the direct involvement of France and its people in an open frontal conflict with Russia.