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Macron was the leader that was being mocked for trying to keep talking to Putin and trying to find a way to talk through the crisis.
This reversal in posture I think is extremely telling of how far gone the Russian leadership is... When even your best interlocutor turns away, even more when they turn hardliner against you, that means they have seen something that has deeply deeply shaken them.
Russian leaders will answer that Tsar Alexander reached Paris when asked how far is far enough for them.
Putin's the idiot that's gonna see a French man sit and watch in Paris as the soldiers reach Moscow.
He can't do that. If French soldiers march into the war officially, Putin would fight against a NATO state. Making it mandatory for every other NATO state to also jump in. Viola we have WW3.
That's literally not how it works, anything else is Russian fearmongering.
Also a bunch of countries fucking up a single country who can't even conquer their neighbor does not a world war make. If it did, the Gulf War would be called WW3 already.
If French were to send soldiers to Ukraine those would be French soldiers, not NATO soldiers. Attack against them is not an attack against a NATO country. Countries like Turkey and USA have been involved in their own conflicts aswell where they have had their troops attacked and this haven't triggered article 5 either. That's not how it works.
It's not that simplistic.
It's a very very risky escalation not because of NATO, but because France is a nuclear power in its own right. And if nukes start flying around, NATO or no NATO, WW3 has already started.