Thread by @revishvilig

Key messages from Macron:
- There had been too many limits in our vocabulary. Those who say let's not support Ukraine do not make the choice of peace, they make the choice of defeat.
- About sending troops: We're not in that situation today but all these options are possible. ⬇️

- The continent's security is at stake and the conflict is existential for our Europe and for France. Russian victory in Ukraine would reduce Europe's credibility to zero.
- Russian victory in Ukraine would reduce Europe's credibility to zero we have no security. 2/

if the situation should deteriorate, we would be ready to make sure that Russia never wins that war. 3/

“We are going to survey all the countries in the world (...) their available stocks and we are offering them to buy it back" 4/

"Europeans are also working on the coordinated supply of various materials, from artillery to anti-aircraft defense, including through the direct production of equipment in Ukraine." 5/

"We are ready, we have an established nuclear doctrine and when it comes to nuclear matters, few words are needed" 6/

“Our nuclear capacity firstly gives security to the French and to the French that few countries in the world have. It gives us a responsibility, that of being a power equipped with this weapon and therefore never being in the escalation."

"Without certainty, today, Russia is an adversary. The Kremlin regime is an adversary. I have always said it, we are not waging war on Russia and the Russian people and we support Ukraine."

"We are doing everything so that it can defeat Russia because I will tell you very simply that there is no lasting peace if there is no sovereignty, a return to the internationally recognized borders of Ukraine and including Crimea."

"If Russia wins this war, Europe's credibility will be reduced to zero. What would be the credibility on our soil of a European Union power whose members would have allowed this to happen?"

"Do you think that the Poles, the Lithuanians, the Estonians, the Latvians, the Romanians, could the Bulgarians stay in peace for a second? And I'm not even talking about Moldova which, certainly, is not in the European Union today, but which would be threatened the second."

"What is happening in Ukraine today, if it has France's vital interests, there is a danger. The security for France, the security of Europe and the security of the French is at stake there"

"We helped 🇺🇦 to resist. But the context on the Ukrainian ground changes. The situation is much more difficult for them. 🇷🇺 is getting tougher at home and is increasing its attacks. And so, yes, I tell you with the greatest solemnity, this start of 2024 must be a start for us."

If we decide today to be weak, if faced with someone who has no limits, faced with someone who has crossed all the limits he'd given us, we naively say to him: I will not go further than this or that. At that moment, we are not choosing peace. We are choosing defeat.

“I want our compatriots to understand that there is only one person responsible for the situation we are in: it is the Kremlin regime."

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