Gérard Araud – Putin does not care about moral condemnations

PFor many, to try to find a rationality in Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine is to justify an unjustifiable act, it is to serve Putin’s interests, it is moreover inconceivable as war now represents an unthought in Western public opinion. It represents, by definition one might say, in our time, evil, an absurd archaism, a madness that can be observed and condemned, but certainly not explained.

Responding that over the centuries Europe has not ceased to see war as a legitimate instrument of foreign policy only leads the interlocutor to reject these times towards darkness that we would have swept away since 1945. We would be living in a new era where she would no longer have her place. Yugoslavia was an accident quickly forgotten…