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CHRONIC. Although such an outcome is still a long way off, European countries will have to work in this direction when the time comes, so as not to see the conflict drag on.
By Gerard Araud
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Dalready in Recovered time, Marcel Proust mocked the civilians in the rear who, during the First World War, exhibited a virulent bellicosity that made them lose all contact with the bloody reality of the front to promote an imaginary strategy on an equally imaginary battlefield. The war in Ukraine proves to us that Proust’s sarcastic observations are timeless. Worldly salons are no more; they were followed by television shows where experts give us their certainties. Impartial, these experts are obviously not.
The shameful pro-Russian does not dare to defend the aggressor, but finds extenuating circumstances, generally on the side of NATO, and reserves himself for the moment when, he hopes in silence, his room …
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