EEmmanuel Macron is mistaken: it is Ukraine, and not Russia, that must be spared humiliation at the end of the war. She is unjustly attacked. She fights not only for her freedom but also for ours. It embodies democracy in the face of tyranny, emancipation from enslavement, the nation in arms against conquering imperialism. It is she whose future must be preserved at all costs. Its defeat would be a strategic failure for the West and a destructive moral setback for the European ambition displayed by the President of the Republic.
Unlike Vladimir Putin, who forbade any possibility of free elections in Russia, Volodymyr Zelensky was democratically elected. His victory in 2019 was hailed by Europe, whose certain observers…