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Alarm bells were ringing inside the Élysée Palace. For Macron, the West’s focus on avoiding escalation—by publicly setting red lines for its engagement in the war—had backfired. The strategy had left France and its allies politically hemmed in, Macron would later tell lawmakers, while Putin was operating without limits, touting Russia’s nuclear arsenal and raining artillery shells on Ukraine.
Macron called Biden and Scholz to tell them he wanted to use the coming summit in Paris to send a message to Putin. Western capitals should stop ruling out military options, Macron said, telling the leaders he wanted to go public with the new approach after the summit.
Scholz responded that if Macron went public the chancellor and other leaders would be compelled to reject it. He strongly advised Macron against the move, saying it could generate a sense of disunity among allies, officials said.
“Many people who say today: ‘never, never’ were the same people who said two years ago: ‘Never, never tanks, never planes, never long-range missiles,’” Macron said. “
I remind you that two years ago, many around this table said: ‘We are going to offer sleeping bags and helmets.’”
Back in his hotel room, Scholz was incredulous, officials said. Macron was publicly airing ideas that he and other leaders had privately rejected earlier that day.
The German chancellor was also stung by Macron’s reference to helmets. Berlin had endured widespread ridicule for offering to send 5,000 helmets to Ukrainian forces in early 2022 when Russia was preparing its invasion. German officials said they were simply responding to a Ukrainian wish list with items that were easiest to send without parliamentary and other approval procedures.
The next day, Scholz fired off a social-media post, writing “there will be no ground troops from European countries or NATO.”
Macron was unfazed. He traveled to Prague—where Czech authorities were in the middle of rounding up crucial munitions for Ukraine—and delivered a speech recalling how Europe was cut in two during the Cold War. Cowardice, Macron said, led to half of Europe abandoning the other to Soviet rule.
“We are certainly approaching a moment, in our Europe, when we should not be cowardly,” Macron said. “War has returned to our soil.”
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