French President Macron is hanging out with American President Biden today……
The French elder had two points to make with Biden…..
One…..
Someone…..President Biden for instance….
(Certainly NOT Donald Trump. eh?)
NEEDS to stop the Ukraine/Russian conflict…..
AND?
Could the United States share some of it’s economy with Europe?
Both of the above work together….
The Russian ‘War’ is eating up Europe’s economies, energy, and flooding it with refugee’s….
People across the planet want it OVER…..
The American President is seen as the one person that can sit down with Putin….
AND?
Work on Ukrainan Presisdent to to get him to the table also….
With Merkel of German gone?
Why not Macron to lead Europe?
The American President says he’s up for the job…
With conditions…..
Should we key the song ‘Give Peace a Chance’ to play as the serious background music?
Standing beside the French leader who has championed the need for dialogue with Moscow, President Biden said he would talk to President Vladimir V. Putin, but only in consultation with NATO allies and only if the Russian leader indicated he was “looking for a way to end the war.”
Mr. Biden’s public expression of conditioned willingness to reach out to Mr. Putin gratified French officials and provided unexpected support for President Emmanuel Macron’s outreach. Mr. Biden noted that Mr. Putin had shown no interest yet in ending his invasion, but said that if that changed, “I’ll be happy to sit down with Putin to see what he has in mind.”
Evidently determined to present a united front during a White House news conference that at times resembled a love fest, Mr. Macron said that France would increase its military support for Ukraine and “will never urge Ukrainians to make a compromise that will not be acceptable for them.”
In effect, the two leaders met each other halfway, with Mr. Biden showing more openness to a negotiated settlement and Mr. Macron more unequivocal support for the Ukrainian cause. If partially choreographed, the meeting of minds appeared to exceed expectations on both sides.
It was a significant show of trans-Atlantic unity on the eve of a winter that will put immense strain on the Ukrainian people, as well as pressure on Western economies, especially European states scrambling to find new sources of energy as prices rise sharply.
French officials said that during a three-hour closed meeting, Mr. Biden and Mr. Macron agreed that more Ukrainian battlefield gains would constitute important leverage in any talks with Moscow. In practice, the idea of negotiation seems far-fetched at a time when Mr. Putin has nothing he can call victory, and Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, has military momentum.
“I’m not going to do it on my own,” Mr. Biden said of the possibility of talking to Mr. Putin, whose actions in Ukraine he called “sick.”
Mr. Macron was effusive in his support of Ukraine and its right to recover its full sovereignty, and there was no hint of his earlier calls for the need to avoid “humiliating” Russia. “If we want sustainable peace, we have to respect the Ukrainians to decide the moment and the conditions in which they will negotiate about their territory and their future,” Mr. Macron said….
Note….
Do NOT be surprised if this turns out to be a start in ending the conflict….
One CAN sniff little clues that something IS going on….
The important part is in making BOTH Putin and Zelensky seem to have gotten something to bring home politically…
And remember Biden’s experience in Congressional politics….
image….Doug Millis/New York Times