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

Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/10013170

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.”

  • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafeEnglish
    13·
    9 months ago

    Reminder that all that bullshit about “territorial disputes” means nothing if the signatories agree to ignore it, or if they decide to live in the real world and acknowledge that an attack on a prospective member is still an attack on the alliance.

    That said…

    They really did have quite the corruption problem.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Unfortunately they almost certainly still do have a large corruption problem, despite it improving in recent years.

      Of course, that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be supported.

    • fustigation769curtain@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      9 months ago

      They really did have quite the corruption problem.

      Yes. Unfortunately every corrupt individual and enabler of corrupt individuals bears some of the blame for why Ukraine was not accepted into NATO sooner.

      As always, it’s a cultural problem. Their culture needs to improve in order to reap the benefits of that improvement.