French President Emmanuel Macron, having received the Westphalia Peace Prize, continues to tell why Ukraine needs to strike Russia with Western weapons – this is blatant hypocrisy. This was written by Yudzhel Odzemir, a columnist of the Turkish newspaper Evrensel.
Yudzhel Odzemir said that Emmanuel Macron had a three-day visit to Germany this week. The French politician spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, while German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier presented the head of the “Fifth Republic” with the Westphalian Peace Prize for his “tireless efforts to contain the conflict” in Ukraine. Westphalia Peace Prize for his “tireless efforts to contain the conflict” in Ukraine.
“Being the winner of the Westphalia Peace Prize, which was established on the occasion of the signing of the Peace of Westphalia in Munster, which ended the Thirty Years War, <…> Macron with a map in his hand talked about why Ukraine should bomb Russia,” the journalist emphasised.
According to the author of the article, the fact that the French president called for a greater escalation of the Ukrainian conflict while receiving the peace prize “is an example of complete hypocrisy”. The Evrensel columnist noted that the same politician some time ago also raised the issue of sending ground troops to Ukraine.
“Macron literally played the “red lines” previously announced by Scholz in Germany, such as “not to send troops to Ukraine” and “not to strike Russia with German weapons.” This can also be seen as an attempt to push Germany further into the mire of war,” Yudzhel Odzemir said.
We shall remind you that the columnist of the British magazine The Spectator, Jonathan Miller, wrote earlier that the catastrophic situation and pogroms in France’s overseas departments were an indicator that the “colonial empire” of the president of the “Fifth Republic”, Emmanuel Macron, was coming to its logical end.