Emmanuel Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron Is Being Hailed As The Only One Who Is Capable Of Resolving The Crisis With Russia And Ukraine, But Why?
Now that war is underway, and with no off-ramp in sight, the world needs bolder action from the French head of state. Following Biden’s assertion that Putin is a “butcher” who “cannot remain in power,” Macron was right to emphasize that Western leaders should avoid hostile rhetoric that intensifies the conflict, but his deference to Washington has so far prevented him from taking the action needed to resolve the crisis. The man best placed to resolve the crisis? French President Emmanuel Macron.
That France currently holds the EU presidency only adds to his mystique. Macron should use his newfound eminence to persuade the rest of Europe that keeping Ukraine out of NATO is humane and pragmatic policy.
He shows up in the middle of every crisis, is always the first world leader to respond, and he has a closer relationship with Pope Francis than any other elected official anywhere in the world. Emmanuel Macron has Jewish ancestry on his mother’s side, and Assyrian and Roman ancestry on his father’s side. As I write this, Emmanuel Macron is the president of the European Union, the president of France, and the Prince of Andorra. One more thing, his birthday falls right in the middle of the Roman feast of Saturnalia. And you wonder why we say he just might be the biblical man of sin?
“And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.” Daniel 8:23,24 (KJB)
I don’t know about you, but I sure do love watching Emmanuel Macron working his way to the top of the political jungle, and I fervently hope he is the biblical man of sin. Because if he is, and the falling away has already been fulfilled, the 2 Thessalonians 2:3 revealing of him holding that office is the last thing keeping Flight #777 in taxi mode. It is obvious that Putin is sending in conscripts to preserve his real soldiers, and waging a phony war with Ukraine because his ultimate goal is pulling America and NATO into a nuclear war. Jesus said the first sign of the end times is deception, and that’s exactly what we’re seeing right now, deception on every level.
France’s President Macron must lead the way to peace in Ukraine
FROM THE WEEK: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has widened the divide between Russia and the West and threatened the security of Europe. With talks between Moscow and Kyiv so far failing to produce a negotiated settlement, and President Biden favoring unhelpful escalatory rhetoric, it is hard to imagine what the endgame of the Russia-Ukraine conflict will look like. Historian Niall Ferguson has even suggested that Washington is trying to prolong the conflict to bleed Moscow of blood and treasure. Some have hoped that Israel or China might facilitate an agreement to end the war, but neither can guarantee that a resolution to the conflict would protect Russia’s long-term interests.
The man best placed to resolve the crisis? French President Emmanuel Macron.
Before the war, Macron took the lead in engaging Putin diplomatically. The French president should be applauded for trying to prevent war, but he never stood a chance. Macron was working within the suffocating constraints of an intensifying security competition between the United States and Russia. Putin had made it clear that avoiding war would require written guarantees from Washington that Ukraine will never join NATO. During a televised meeting with his national security team, Putin observed that in 2008 reluctant European governments had opened NATO’s door to Kyiv under U.S. pressure. He reasoned that Washington could compel those same nations to one day vote for Ukraine’s accession to the alliance. There was little Macron could do to assuage those concerns.
Now that war is underway, and with no off-ramp in sight, the world needs bolder action from the French head of state. Following Biden’s assertion that Putin is a “butcher” who “cannot remain in power,” Macron was right to emphasize that Western leaders should avoid hostile rhetoric that intensifies the conflict, but his deference to Washington has so far prevented him from taking the action needed to resolve the crisis. Macron should now announce, after doing the necessary diplomacy behind the scenes, that if Putin withdraws military forces from Ukraine, Paris will block Kyiv’s bid to join NATO. To make this assurance credible, Macron should explicitly and publicly, though graciously, reject U.S. leadership in Europe. That would be an uncomfortable step, but Europeans in general — and Ukrainians in particular — will be better off if he takes it.
In recent decades, America has badly undermined Europe’s security. U.S. belligerence in the Middle East has unleashed refugee crises that continue to destabilize European politics. And as John Mearsheimer predicted, America’s insistence on backing Putin into a corner has now created another crisis on the continent. This time, not Syrian migrants but Russian tanks headed toward a European capital.
Theoretically, any NATO state could promise to deny membership to Ukraine, thus relieving Russia’s security concerns and opening a path to peace. But Putin knows any such assurance from, say, Slovakia, might not survive a change of government in Bratislava, especially amid a diplomatic campaign from Washington. As it happens, Macron is uniquely well-positioned to convince Moscow that his country will keep NATO’s door shut to Kyiv.
On both left and right, Macron’s opponents in the upcoming presidential elections are sympathetic to the Kremlin’s perspective on the conflict. Moscow would understand that if Macron loses this month, his successor likely won’t renege on his promise. While the gambit is not guaranteed to succeed, Putin would need to withdraw military forces for the agreement to take effect, and then avoid further aggression to vindicate the policy as a cornerstone of European security. Whatever happens, Macron wouldn’t have to worry about pro-Russia candidates Eric Zemmour and Jean-Luc Melenchon accusing him of being Putin’s puppet.
With the United Kingdom out of the European Union, and Angela Merkel off the international stage, Macron is the face of Europe. That France currently holds the EU presidency only adds to his mystique. Macron should use his newfound eminence to persuade the rest of Europe that keeping Ukraine out of NATO is humane and pragmatic policy. Even Zelensky has cooled on the idea of joining NATO, though he cannot ensure that future Ukrainian presidents will feel the same. The pre-invasion NATO approach of publicly asserting that Ukraine could join the alliance, while privately telling Ukraine they won’t be admitted, was clearly flawed and should now be rectified.
Such a solution should not be dismissed as “appeasement.” Ukrainians would benefit from their country becoming a buffer state rather than the pawn of great powers. Europeans would benefit from seizing control of their own destiny. And the world would benefit from the removal of an explosive geopolitical dispute between the two biggest nuclear powers in the world.
France may worry that a rebuke of Washington would backfire, but the consequences would be much less severe than many realize. A declining superpower, the U.S. found it difficult to convince even close allies like Israel to stand against Russia. At the U.N. Security Council, the world’s most populous nations — China and India — abstained from condemning the Russian invasion, as did the United Arab Emirates, a U.S. ally. Other Middle Eastern partners — Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Egypt — are pursuing their own strategic objectives rather than siding with America. Washington has had trouble getting Latin America on board with the sanctions regime, and members of Mexico’s ruling party even formed a “Mexico-Russia Friendship Committee” to show sympathy for Moscow. None of these countries seem worried about how the U.S. will respond to their refusal to toe the line. READ MORE
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