{"id":54033,"date":"2024-03-24T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=54033"},"modified":"2024-03-24T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T13:00:11","slug":"macron-believes-ukraine-could-fall-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/54033\/macron-believes-ukraine-could-fall-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron believes Ukraine could fall soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Playbook section spoke with several members of the president\u2019s party who had attended a working dinner at the Elysee Palace the evening before. While most of the discussion centered on the upcoming European Parliament elections, the Ukraine conflict also came up, according to Russia Today.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cUkraine could fall very quickly,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0one of the outlet\u2019s sources quoted Macron as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Macron ramped up his rhetoric about Ukraine a few weeks after a number of French nationals fighting on behalf of Kiev\u00a0were killed\u00a0in a Russian missile strike. At a meeting of EU leaders in Paris in late February, he\u00a0refused to rule out\u00a0the possibility of a NATO intervention in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Though the idea was quickly\u00a0rejected\u00a0by almost all members of the US-led bloc and its\u00a0secretary-general, Macron doubled down,\u00a0declaring\u00a0there would be\u00a0<em>\u201cno limits\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to French support for Kiev and\u00a0calling\u00a0Russia an\u00a0<em>\u201cadversary.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Meanwhile, the French Army\u2019s Chief of Staff Pierre Schill\u00a0announced\u00a0that the country\u2019s military was\u00a0<em>\u201cready,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0presumably for a war.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has strongly condemned Macron\u2019s remarks and cautioned NATO against taking further hostile moves. According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the deployment of Western soldiers to Ukraine would make direct conflict with Russia\u00a0<em>\u201cinevitable.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>MNA\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playbook section spoke with several members of the president\u2019s party who had attended a working dinner at the Elysee Palace the evening before. While most of the discussion centered on the upcoming European Parliament elections, the Ukraine conflict also came up, according to Russia Today. \u201cUkraine could fall very quickly,\u201d\u00a0one of the outlet\u2019s sources quoted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7100,7110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-en","category-politic-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}