Thread by @ClaireBerlinski

This is excellent, though I'm not persuaded by the argument that it represented a full pivot on Macron's Russia policy (as @JosephdeWeck interestingly argues here: ip-quarterly.com/en/macrons-piv…. Macron is a careful speaker, generally;

https://twitter.com/NTenzer/status/1486091600400769024

and there was enough ambiguity in what he said--and enough reason to anticipate that allies would find *any* ambiguity deeply dismaying (for the reasons @NTenzer lays out)--that I'm pretty sure a clear pivot would have been clearly phrased.

And I suspect he'd have apprised allies of it, too, and made the point clearly in many fora. Obviously, he'd want to regain the political capitol he's sacrificed.

So I agree the English-language reporting was terrible; it made it sound worse than it was. But this argument makes it sound better than it was.