Yesterday, on the same day that France’s President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the shockingly moderate language of France’s Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna appeared in Le Monde. She admitted that Western leaders need to build a security architecture that respects Russia’s interests. She explained: “We have a negative vision of … Russia’s behavior. However, Russia exists and will continue to exist. Reality, history and geography mean that this country is largely on the European continent. We will have to find a way to rebuild a solid security architecture that takes into account the stability interests of all.”
A day earlier, Hungary’s Gergely Gulyas, the minister in charge of the prime minister’s office, speaking to students, said that peace talks between Moscow and Kiev are impossible without U.S. involvement, and that, as quoted by RT, Washington “must give security guarantees to Russia, but definitely not NATO membership to the Ukrainians.”
While not quite a stampede of common sense, two such comments within 24 hours should raise a few eyebrows.
