I was in Paris last week and was struck by the fury with which some leading figures in the French elite claimed that it would soon be essential for Ukraine to make peace with Russia.
While in Britain it is our common wisdom that the democratic world needs an invasion of Ukraine to be clearly defeated, the perspective across the English Channel can be very different. As the success of both the far right and the far left in this month’s election raises doubts about whether France is manageable, some fear that a war-intensified economic crisis will lead to social unrest at home, deep divisions in the whole continent and the return of Trump, who will then abandon Europe. According to them, stability
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