Until now it has only been a verbal explosion, the warning from President Emmanuel Macron: if the Russians advance and threaten the defeat of Ukraine, which is fighting on the defensive with numerical inferiority of soldiers and weapons, France can send troops to its territory within the framework of NATO, the western military alliance. But leader Vladimir Putin seized the opportunity and Russia announced that its enormous military apparatus was deployed on the border with eastern Ukraine. training preparations have begun to deal with a nuclear war hypothesis and has sent non-strategic atomic bombs that are already in position.
That of the Russians is a huge threat that the European countries, which are the vast majority in NATO, have been alarmed.
In Italy there was a gale of “no” to the hypothesis of sending troops beyond the border with Ukraine. “We are not and I believe we will never be at war with Russia,” said Foreign Minister and government deputy prime minister Antonio Tajani.
She was followed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, with an even more resounding “no”. Then all the parties followed, big and small, pro-government and opposition parties. Not a single voice spoke out in favor of French President Macron’s warning. In June there will be elections in the European Parliament that are very important and the macabre specter of being fully involved in the war in Ukraine cannot dominate the debates.
Now Macron is preoccupied with meeting a strategic and illustrious visitor in Paris: Chinese President Xi Jin Pin, a golden ally of Putin’s Russia, determined to “resolve the crisis,” as he said, and expected by other European leaders in his tour that started in France.
Xi Jingping also wants to enter into negotiations to overcome the serious crisis of the war in Ukraine. Another objective of the trip, and everything is related, is to increase exchanges with Europe, the second great partner of the Chinese in the world. He first is the United States and the Chinese economic situation needs to be consolidated with this fundamental duo of very rich and capitalist countries.
The Chinese president began by confirming to the French president that the Russians Macron’s threats were taken very seriously. In their statement they even showed the transport of an Iskander atomic warhead missile to the border with Ukraine.
Xi’s arrival in Europe is projected to be inevitable with his presence, starting on June 7, in Italy, to participate in the summit of the seven richest capitalist industrial powers. Russia was the eighth member but was suspended due to the Ukrainian case.
The US-dominated NATO fears that the Ukrainian fruit will fall after the next offensive that Russia is preparing. These realistic conjectures aggravate the situation, because the West cannot afford a disastrous defeat for Ukraine either.
This perspective also values the efforts of the negotiations to achieve a path for negotiations that lead to a ceasefire and peace. But the path is still unknown. The only certain thing is uncertainty.
