The Technocrat and the Tyrant

Emmanuel Macron, the recently re-elected president of France, is by some measures considered to be a smart man, but he’s definitely not a charmer. 

A tyrant like Vladimir Putin need much more than his Gallic charm to be swayed. To budge, the Russian dictator would have to be seriously smitten and Macron is woefully incapable of doing that. 

Yet, he professes that he can, as he calls to avoid humiliating Russia in Ukraine, in hoping to please the tyrannical head of state, even if looking as a savior comes at the cost of shattering the Western alliance.

Last week, Macron reiterated his belief that Russian leader Vladimir Putin must be given an exit from what he called his "historic and fundamental mistake" of invading Ukraine. 

Has he been paid by Putin to say that? Why not after all, Putin is sufficiently rich and devious to buy the support of an ambitious and shortsighted politician like Macron, but if he’s done that, he’ll play him like a cat plays with a mouse. 

Just get yourself a decent dose of common sense Emmanuel; if an enemy had invaded the French Alps and the French Riviera, killing, raping and destroying everything, everywhere, would you appreciate it if Biden told your invader something nice to avoid humiliating him? 

I don’t think so.