The worst day for France’s grand European vision was Feb. 24 as Russia invaded Ukraine, but a close second came a few weeks earlier, when Russia and China announced their unlimited friendship. French grand strategy was to avoid at all costs a Sino-Russian alignment. President Emmanuel Macron articulated this outlook well in an August 2019 […]
For France, Working With Russia Is Expensive
The Ukraine war has dashed nearly all of Paris’ hope of helming a “Greater Europe.”
