Macron, Flexing Gallic Military Muscles, Urges Green Light for Ukraine To Strike Russian Targets With Western Weapons

Paris’s move to change the equation in the war provokes some backlash from Moscow, but for the moment no major changes on the ground are expected.

Ludovic Marin, pool via AP
The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, shakes hands with President Zelensky as President Macron looks on before a meeting at Kyiv June 16, 2022. Ludovic Marin, pool via AP

President Putin’s predictable bristling be damned, President Macron is finally flexing some Gallic muscle over Ukraine.

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