Sputnik International By Dmitry Babich
French President Emmanuel Macron and the British Foreign Secretary David Cameron made inflammatory statements this week pledging new kinds of military assistance to Ukraine. However, experts see signs of weakness in the two leaders’ comments, since neither Paris nor London can “make a difference” in Ukraine.
Foreign Secretary David Cameron said during his visit to Kiev that Ukraine “absolutely has the right” to strike at Russian territory using the weapons made and supplied by the UK. “It is their [Ukrainians] decision about how to use these weapons,” Cameron said.
On that issue, Cameron sounded even more aggressive than his American allies, who dissuaded Ukrainians from making strikes against the “old” Russian territory, with the exception of Crimea.
“We don’t discuss any caveats that we put on those things… Just as Russia is striking inside Ukraine, you can quite understand why Ukraine feels the need to make sure it has the ability to strike back,” Cameron is quoted by news agencies as saying.
Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron repeated his idea (first voiced at the end of February) to send NATO troops to Ukraine. However, in his interview to The Economist, Macron mentioned two conditions for France’s participation: if the frontline of Zelensky’s regime crumbles and if NATO is officially invited by Ukraine.
Paolo Raffone, the director of the Brussels-based CIPI Foundation, noted an important development in these comments: the European leaders get more aggressive verbally as their secondary role in the Ukrainian conflict (in comparison to the US, Russia and the Global South) becomes more and more obvious…
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