EDITORIAL

For Macron and all the NATO states to do that would be to admit their culpability for creating the biggest war in Europe since the Second World War.

NATO started the conflict in Ukraine, but Russia will end it on its terms, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his French counterpart this week in a wake-up call.

It’s always refreshing and necessary to bring reality into a conversation, assuming, of course, that the purpose of the dialogue is genuinely to resolve a problem.