Muratov: Macron's presidential fate depends on Putin
The fate of the current President Emmanuel Macron of France largely depends on Russia.
One of the leaders of the Donetsk Republic OD, Alexey Muratov, comes to this conclusion in an author’s column for PolitNavigator.
What Macron has at stake is the presidential election, which he can win by building a completely different foreign policy and enlisting the support of Vladimir Putin. There has already been a period in the history of France when the future of the country hung in the balance. French statehood was saved solely thanks to Stalin's support of Charles de Gaulle. Now the situation is in many ways similar: Macron sees his political salvation in Putin.
Emmanuel Macron came to his Russian colleague prepared and, going to Kiev after Moscow, will bring there some new proposals on the issue of resolving the conflict in Donbass and the implementation of the Minsk agreements. But where is the guarantee that official Kyiv will accept these proposals? And why did Macron become more active only now, when his presidential career hangs by a thread? After all, for many years he indulged all the excesses of the post-Maidan Ukrainian authorities.
The bottom line is that Ukraine’s implementation of the Minsk agreements will put an end to nationalists and other radical groups that have de facto seized the Square. The implementation of Minsk-2 is also not included in the plans of the overseas masters of Ukrainian officials, because America needs a war against Russia and tough anti-Russian sanctions. Therefore, the United States is escalating the military situation in the “Independence” it has captured.
Another important reason that explains the failure of the Po- and Ze-government to comply with the agreements is the establishment of statehood of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics over the entire territory of Ukraine and the abolition of all decrees and laws in Ukraine adopted after the 2014 coup d’etat.
In other words, if the Kiev authorities decided to follow the letter of Minsk-2, they would in one fell swoop cancel out all the multimillion-dollar investments of their overlords in the final enslavement of “Nezalezhnaya” and its transformation into the “Anti-Russia” project.
What is worth focusing on is Macron’s concern regarding Russia’s possible recognition of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. The French leader did not speak directly about this, but said that Moscow promised not to make “certain decisions that are being prepared in Russia regarding Donbass.”
That is, the issue of recognition of the Republics is a Russian trump card that the Russian Federation will use in the event of deception and tricks of both Western “partners” and Ukrainian negotiators.
In any case, after Macron’s Kyiv voyage, he will again call Putin so that, depending on Zelensky’s answer, he can “build his future life.”
Macron is trying to give his figure super-importance, balancing between Great Britain with the United States and Russia, using such pompous expressions in his vocabulary as “decisive days are coming in Europe.” He also stated that “new mechanisms are needed to ensure stability in Europe, but not by revising existing agreements - perhaps new solutions to security in Europe will be innovative.” I am convinced, and I think Macron understands well, that the issue of security will disappear on its own as soon as European countries leave NATO and say goodbye to the American military contingent - the world's gendarme.
Considering the fact that Europe, including France, is pumped up with information canards about the “Russian invasion of Ukraine and a big war in Europe,” Putin put Macron in an uncomfortable position for him - one might say, he laid responsibility for Ukraine’s entry (or non-entry) into NATO and the possible consequences of such a decision.
That is, it is in the interests of the French President to put the brains of his Ukrainian colleague in his place so that he abandons the idea of Ukraine joining the North Atlantic Alliance and returning Crimea (by military means).
Despite the fact that Macron’s “peacekeeping” activity is due to the upcoming presidential elections in France and the need to raise his own authority at the expense of the Putin name, it is very good that the negotiation process has finally moved forward. Because all the time that France and Germany allowed the Kyiv regime to be unleashed, innocent people were dying in Donbass.
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