French President Emmanuel Macron criticized President Joe Biden for his choice of words in an interview, making the case that his words could have been escalatory in regard to Biden calling out Russian President Vladimir Putin directly for multiple and various reports of war crimes carried out during his invasion of Ukraine.
News source Visegrad 24 reported a tweet containing a video of Macron that sported the caption, “Macron is criticizing Biden for calling Putin ‘a butcher.’ The French president says it’s not constructive. ‘I would not use that kind of language. If a ceasefire is to be brokered, we must not escalate — neither through words nor actions.'”
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Macron is criticizing Biden for calling Putin “a butcher”. The French president says it’s not constructive.
“I would not use that kind of language. If a ceasefire is to be brokered, we must not escalate — neither through words nor actions.” pic.twitter.com/REzBTzJWc5
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 27, 2022
From the video, it seems as though Macron was attempting to suggest that it was far more important to keep an open dialogue with Putin available than it was to be forthright concerning the actions he has either allowed or directly ordered of his current occupation forces, which continue their assault and invasion of Ukraine at the time of writing.
“Macron warned against calling Putin a ‘butcher.’ ‘I wouldn’t use terms like that because I’m still in talks with President Putin,’ the French President said during an interview. Prior, U.S. President Joe Biden called Putin a ‘butcher,’ a ‘murderous dictator’ & ‘a pure thug,'” stated an article from the Kyiv Independent.
⚡️ Macron warned against calling Putin a 'butcher.'
“I wouldn’t use terms like that because I’m still in talks with President Putin,” the French President said during an interview.
Prior, U.S. President Joe Biden called Putin a “butcher,” a “murderous dictator” & “a pure thug.”
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 27, 2022
Almost immediately, Garry Kasparov hurled criticism at Macron, stating, “Apparently Macron will never realize that the problem isn’t accurately calling Putin what he is, but that he’s still in talks with him no matter how many war crimes he commits.”
He continued on to state that macron should make his next statement that seems to be appeasing Putin from without the nearly-destroyed port city of Mariupol, which is where various Russian troops took aim and fired at a maternity hospital along with a theater that was quite clearly labeled as a shelter for kids.
“Macron should have his next humiliating chat with Putin in Mariupol. Engagement with a dictator is a loss of leverage and a show of weakness. Pressure comes from isolation, which targets Putin’s hold on power, the only thing he cares about,” exclaimed Kasparov in a tweet.
“Even if you think your goals are pure, like getting humanitarian aid into Ukraine, groveling before Putin is never going to be the most effective way to achieve them,” he continued. “It gives him more chips to gamble with. Then he’ll take more hostages to gain more.”
“Dictatorship are sociopaths, narcissists. They see only what helps them,” he stated at the end of his tirade, “‘I bombed entire cities full of innocents to the ground and foreign leaders are still coming to beg for my help. I am powerful and should continue bombing.'”