Macron's strategic shift in the face of Putin, by Serge July

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Putin had a choice. The election of his buddy Trump to the presidency of the United States offered him the opportunity, on the external front, for them to conduct global affairs together. And on the internal front, for him to bring the Russian economy out of its isolation , benefit from American investments and initiate a leap forward towards the country's true development. The Russian president has chosen another path, one that aims to make Russia a great military power, which it once was, and imposes his will on Central Europe, where peoples long in the Soviet fold