AT a time of growing global concern over a scarcity of talks aimed at a truce in the two-year-old conflict in Ukraine, irresponsible utterances by French President Emmanuel Macron can only serve to give credence to the suspicion that Europe has every intention of not only prolonging the war but instead of escalating it.
Speaking this week on the sidelines of a European leaders’ conference in Paris looking into, among others, the Ukraine war, Macron told reporters that it was a real possibility that Nato could send soldiers to Ukraine to shore up the pummelling of fighters in the Ukrainian Defence Force.
The remarks by Macron were apparently made out of turn and drew a harsh rebuke from the French allies in the
