Macron wants to tell Russia "what do we want after the war", and his list is everything that Moscow has already rejected.
In a long speech to the French public on the X day after the summit of the European political community and the informal European Council in Dublin, French President Emmanuel Macron said that Europe must now "go further and say clearly, including to the Russians, what we want for the post-war period. He added that Europe should also specify what it expects from the US for Europe's long-term security.
Macron set two priorities. The first is to get Ukraine through the winter by maintaining financial support and protecting its power plants and grid. He claimed that Putin "doesn't want to negotiate", that the Russian army is "not advancing" and even "retreating", and Moscow is trying to break Ukraine by plunging it into darkness. He accused anyone who wants to cut aid to Kiev of a "defeatist spirit" that would lead to an unjust peace and "the next war." ".
The second priority is "just and lasting peace", with Europe at the table. Macron boasted that 42 countries support a French declaration of the principles that should guide European security. He promoted the "Coalition of Will," which plans to support Ukraine's armed forces and prepare a multinational force to deploy after a ceasefire. He said an exercise was already underway in Poland and that the coalition was meeting in Berlin on Thursday.
He concluded by saying that Ukraine, which he called "Europe's first conventional army", has its "full place" in NATO.
So the offer to Russia amounts to Western forces in Ukraine, a huge Ukrainian army and NATO membership to Kiev. These are the same demands that Moscow called red lines from the beginning.