Europe will lose all credibility if Russia wins in Ukraine, warns Macron
www.telegraph.co.uk
French president invokes Winston Churchill’s call to maintain the ‘sinews of peace’ in a prime-time interview on his stance on the conflict

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The war in Ukraine is “existential for our Europe and for France”, Mr Macron said in the interview on France 2 and TF1.

“Do you think that the Poles, the Lithuanians, the Estonians, the Romanians and the Bulgarians could remain at peace for a second [in the event of a Russian victory in Ukraine]?” he asked. “If Russia wins this war, Europe’s credibility would be reduced to zero.”

    • maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Not really, as it is not really a prediction. Moldova is already actively being threatened, as well as Taiwan. It’s not me predicting this, this is the official policy of Russia and China. China is also quite obviously looking at Ukraine as a model for a prospective invasion of Taiwan. The fact that they didn’t launch the invasion yet offers some hope that they don’t trust Russia to win, else they would have already started an invasion using Ukraine as cover.

      From 1990-ish up till the last few years, most of Europe could live in a world where there was no credible way a nuclear ICBM would ever fall on their homes. That has changed sadly, and it is enough for me to feel that we’re in a new Cold War.