DAfter his election in 2017, Emmanuel Macron invited Vladimir Poutine to inaugurate with him the exhibition at Versailles devoted to the visit made there by Peter the Great. The gesture was not self-evident. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014; it supervised and armed the separatists of Donbass and, in Syria, its air force had come to the aid of the Assad regime without worrying about the civilian populations subjected to its bombardments. The new President of the Republic did not stop there, since he then took care to maintain a sustained dialogue with his Russian counterpart, until he received him at Fort Brégançon, which earned him the criticism of our Polish and Baltic partners and the American press.
Emmanuel Macron was obviously right. No one can erase the…
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