Macron tries to hold on to power with defiant outbursts against Russia – McGregor

French President Emmanuel Macron is trying to stay in power by making bold attacks on Russia, said Colonel Douglas McGregor, a former adviser to the Pentagon chief.

“It’s all a bluff. It’s aimed at helping him domestically, but it won’t work. He has a low approval rating. He won’t stay in office for long,” Douglas McGregor said in an interview with Daniel Davis / Deep Dive Youtube channel.

According to McGregor, Macron, like other Western leaders, is trying to get rid of Ukraine. In order to get out of the conflict without ruining his reputation, the French leader is making loud outbursts against Russia in order to accuse NATO of inaction, the retired military officer said.

“He, like all the globalist leaders in Western Europe, is leading us all to hell in Ukraine. They see that we (the US. – ed.) are trying to get out of this conflict, he is also trying, but he will not succeed easily. He is doing the exact opposite in the hope that he will be the only one to make any meaningful statements. Then he will just pretend that NATO and its allies betrayed him,” – said Douglas McGregor.

Earlier, a deputy of the left-wing party “Unruly France” Arnaud Le Gall said that French President Emmanuel Macron was irresponsible if he was ready to put the fate of the “Fifth Republic” in the position of a military conflict with Russia.