www.zerohedge.com BY TYLER DURDENÂ
French President Emmanuel Macron sparked a cascade of virtue outsignaling and social media outrage after he said that “it is vital that Russia is not humiliated so that when the fighting stops in Ukraine a diplomatic solution can be found,” adding that he believed Paris would play a mediating role to end the conflict.
While Macron has sought to maintain a dialogue with Vladimir Putin since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February, his stance has been repeatedly criticized by some staunch anti-Russia eastern European and Baltic states as they see it as undermining efforts to pressure Putin to the negotiating table.
“We must not humiliate Russia so that the day when the fighting stops we can build an exit ramp through diplomatic means,” Macron said in an interview to regional newspapers published on Saturday. “I am convinced that it is France’s role to be a mediating power.”