There is still a chance left for him not to destabilise Europe and lose everything. Whether he enters Ukraine or gives up without having obtained anything, today Vladimir Putin is checkmated, but he could still choose to come out on top and go down in history as a man of peace and not of war.
Read MoreThey fascinate as much as they alarm. Xi, Putin and Erdogan are stirring the Westerners’ slumber, but far from being as strong as they would have us believe, they are running out of steam and skidding because the sky is darkening over their heads.
Read MoreThe greatest lessons of this crisis are yet to come. They will depend on the choices that the Russian president will now make, but this Ukrainian arm wrestling has already corrected four preconceived ideas.
Read MoreAfrica, first of all Africa. It was when Emmanuel Macron spoke about it at length last week in the European Parliament that it became clear that it is an urgency to develop a vision of the Union for the next ten or fifteen years and not just the programme of a six-month presidency.
Read MoreThe Westerners are wrong. Diplomats and journalists in particular say that Emmanuel Macron is wrong to think that the European Union could assert itself as a player on the international scene, and Vladimir Putin is right to believe in the Union so little that he entered into an arm wrestling match about Ukraine rather with the United States and not with the European Union.
Read More
