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Macron’s diplomatic failure in Russia was still a political success

23 February 2022

4:07 AM

23 February 2022

4:07 AM

President Emmanuel Macron may or may not have imagined that his mission to Moscow would head off armed conflict in Ukraine. He will nevertheless have calculated that while his mission was an abject diplomatic failure, it was a modest political success.

The French pro-Macron media (most of it) bigged up the visit as a triumph of French diplomacy and an affirmation of Macron’s global stature.

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