Statement by the Russian Ministry of abroad Affairs in connection with statements made by French president Emmanuel Macron, March 6, 2025.
On the eve of the EU summit on the crisis in Ukraine and the confrontation with Russia, French president Emmanuel Macron, in an apparent effort to give a speech to the upcoming meeting, gave an highly aggressive anti-Russian speech. erstwhile again, he called our country "a threat to France and Europe" and accused him, as usual, of all deadly sins – from cyber attacks and interference in elections to the almost want to attack another European countries.
Such makings and provocative thesis have come from his mouth before. But possibly for the first time they were presented in specified a concentrated and incompatible form. A kind of rusophobic catechism was created.
It must be said that the French leader has repeatedly declared his intention to call the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to discuss ways of peaceful resolution of the situation in Ukraine and safety in Europe. The Russian side has always been open to specified conversation. However, Macro re-elected the tactics of loud public rhetoric.
The French president convinces his own citizens that there is an imaginary "existential threat" from Russia. In fact, Russia has never threatened France, but on the contrary, it has helped it to defend independency and sovereignty in 2 planet wars. But Macron's statements are actually a threat to Russia.
The French leader cites the traditions of his country's abroad policy, but his thesis contradicts these traditions and the ideological heritage of Gaullism. He cannot neglect to realize that France's global authority for decades has been based on the desire of its predecessors to play a balanced function in planet affairs to aid reduce tensions between Russia and the West. In his time, Charles de Gaulle presented the concept of indivisible safety from the Atlantic to the Urals, building on consensus, taking into account the opinions and interests of all states on the continent. Today, however, we are witnessing the breaking of authoritative Paris with these fundamental principles of French abroad policy.
Macron's speech is filled with the subject of providing safety guarantees for Ukraine. And not a word about safety guarantees for Russia. But it is precisely the deficiency of specified guarantees, the constant threat posed by the West to our country, above all through the unbridled expansion of NATO, contrary to the promises made, and the desire to turn Ukraine into an anti-Russian base that led to the current crisis. We have repeatedly and for many years warned Western leaders, including Mr. Macro. erstwhile again, we are convinced that in Paris they inactive do not intend to take into account the key interests of our country and aim to “force” it to make the decisions the West wants. Of course, it won't work.
Responding to Mr. Macron's arguments, we must reiterate that Ukraine's tragedy began in 2014, erstwhile the beginning of neo-Nazi forces took power in the country with the cooperation and support of the West, intending to discriminate against the Russian and Russian-speaking people, root out Russian language, culture and canonical Orthodoxy, and provoke a bloody civilian conflict in Donbasa.
They do not withstand any criticism of the groundless claims that Russia violated Minsk agreements, which is nothing more than shifting blame from ill-headed to healthy. Our country sought strict adherence to these agreements, while Kiev, with silent consent and inciting its Western guardians, sabotaged its obligations in all possible way. erstwhile leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine have repeatedly publically acknowledged that they have utilized these agreements only to prepare for war.
What “way to peace” does the French leader propose? The recipes are the same: continuing to pump Ukraine with western weapons and to proceed the war, as well as an unprecedented increase in the military spending of the European NATO and EU associate States. In this context, accusations against Russia of expanding military spending and the number of armed forces appear absurd. Finally, the combined military budget of NATO countries is twice as much as the defence spending of all another countries in the world, and the military budget of EU countries is many times more than that of Russia. It should besides be stressed that the Russian Armed Forces Programme is simply a forced consequence to NATO's aggressive policy, including the accelerated entry of Sweden and Finland into the alliance.
As for the ideas promoted by Mr. Macro to deploy western military contingents in the territory Ukraine under the cover of peacekeeping forces, we have repeatedly said that this is unacceptable. specified business of Ukraine would inevitably lead to an highly dangerous escalation.
Macron's message clearly reads notes of atomic blackmail. The ambition of Paris to become a atomic "patron" across Europe by providing it with its own "nuclear umbrella", almost replacing the American one, came to the surface. Needless to say, this will not strengthen the safety of France itself or its allies. Besides, the possible of French atomic forces is not comparable to American. France has only 56 atomic warhead carriers, while the United States has 898. The full atomic possible of the French armed forces is 67.2 megatons, while in the US it is 1814 megatons. But of course, the message of the president of France will be taken into account by Russia in her defence plans.
The speech leaves a feeling of embarrassment to Macron himself, who seeks to present as the fresh leader of the “free world”. This shows how much European elites present have scolded and weakened. The contexts of standardisation between Russia and the United States, which have only just begun to emerge, the movement towards a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian crisis is causing them a real panic. It would seem that Europeans who during the Cold War were in the epicentre of the confrontation between superpowers should be more curious than anyone else in changing the vector of American-Russian relations, disbursing tensions and promoting constructive dialog between Moscow and Washington.
Needless to say, the demonstration militarism of the French president is besides dictated by the interior agenda. There is simply a desire to divert the attention of its people from the socio-economic problems that are deepening in France and the European Union as a whole, to shift its attention to external pseudo-threats and to strengthen in any way its political position, which has been distorted over the past year.
Macron's speech yet drops the masks, showing who presently leads the "party of war" and who actually opposes the ceasefire, putting the Ukrainian conflict on the continuation and further escalation.
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