Macron Again Talks Up NATO Troops For Ukraine: ‘We Cannot Allow Russia To Win’

• Macron Again Talks Up NATO Troops For Ukraine: ‘We Cannot Allow Russia To Win’
  by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
  Even after his first round of comments resulted in significant pushback from among European allies, French President Emmanuel Macron has once again declared that NATO should not rule out sending troops to Ukraine, which would set the West on a path of direct nuclear-armed confrontation with Russia.
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  He said in a Thursday interview on French national television that while the “situation” is perhaps not ripe at the moment to deploy troops there, it remains that “all these options are possible.”
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  But perhaps more importantly, Macron framed Russia’s war in Ukraine as an “existential” threat for Europe and said that “if the situation should deteriorate, we would be ready to make sure that Russia never wins that war.”
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  He castigated allies for previously being slow to act: “Two years ago we said we would never send tanks. We did. Two years ago, we said we would never send medium-range missiles. We did,” the French leaders said. “Those who say ‘let’s not support Ukraine’ do not make the choice of peace, they make the choice of defeat.”
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  Ironically throughout the first year of the war, Macron was the only Western European leader to hold frequent phone calls with Russia’s President Putin in efforts to de-escalate and to get to the negotiating table. But now Macron has clearly moved into the hawkish camp which sees military solutions as the only viable way out:
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