He is treading a perilous path between his own friends’ suspicions and Vladimir Putin’s belligerence
“I DON’T BELIEVE in spontaneous miracles,” declared Emmanuel Macron shortly after boarding the presidential plane from Paris for Moscow on February 7th. The French president looked unreasonably calm ahead of one of the more testing diplomatic trips he has made since he was elected five years ago.
Only three weeks ago, there was palpable frustration in Paris about being side-lined diplomatically in the face of the greatest military build-up the continent has seen since the end of the cold war. America and NATO have led and framed the dialogue with Mr Putin over the Russian build-up at its border with Ukraine, merely “debriefing” Europeans afterwards, as one French presidential adviser then put it.
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