Emmanuel Macron will warn Donald Trump that he does not seem weak to Putin

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, will meet with Donald Trump in Washington later, the first individual meeting between the couple since the president of the United States returned to the White House.

Macron said in a question and answers session on social networks that he would warn Trump not to seem weak to Russian President Vladimir Putin. It occurs after the United States celebrated direct conversations with Russia for the first time since the large -scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine.

It is also due to current European proposals to achieve peace in Ukraine after the president of the United States accused him of not doing anything “about the matter.

The meeting is held on the third anniversary of the large -scale invasion of Russia of Ukraine. Other European leaders have been in Kyiv in a sample of support.

On Thursday, Macron told a audience on social networks that Trump also needed to think about how his interactions with Putin would seem to other world leaders.

“It is not you, it is not your registered trademark, it is not of your interest. How can you be credible in front of China if you are weak against Putin?” Macron said.

He added that he would seek to persuade Trump that the interests of the United States and Europe were aligned, and that “if you let Russia take over Ukraine, it would be unstoppable.”

That means that any peace agreement must be negotiated with Ukrainians and Europeans around the table, Macron said.

Such an appeal to the ego of the president of the United States is a conscious choice of Macron, who knows Trump from the first mandate of the latter, says Sebastien Maillard, of the group of experts of Chatham House.

“Macron is trying to touch what could be more emotion than in pure rational arguments,” Maillard said.

Trump wants to appear as a strong man who obtained a peace agreement quickly, he said, so Macron’s strategy “is to demonstrate to Trump how weak he would see, he would not be the strong man who wants to be.”

“If Putin treats too kindly, he will not be respected by China, Iran or other enemies.”

In more general terms, Macron’s visit is likely to be a part -time purchase operation for Europe and partly the fact investigation mission, according to Mr. Maillard.

“This is a mission of last chance because Europe feels that things are hurried: they are afraid that this can be done too fast and badly,” Maillard said.

He added that the international community was “bewildered” by this “new putin-trump axis”, and that “Macron wants to understand what the future of NATO is.”

“So that it is not taken by surprise in the next speech or on the next tweet,” Maillard added.

An advisor to the Macron office said the French president would also use the meeting to present “proposals for action that reflect the convergences that arose,” AFP said.

These convergences refer to the sudden change of Washington policy to directly involve Russia.

Within a month of recovering the White House, Trump had Putin on the phone and sent a delegation of US representatives to meet with Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia.

These conversations resulted in an agreement to appoint teams from both countries to begin negotiating the end of the war.

Russia also said that he would not accept the peace forces of NATO countries in Ukraine under any peace agreement, a proposal that Ben had raised a day before at a meeting of NATO European members in Paris hurriedly arranged by Macron

The Macron meeting with Trump is ahead of the visit of the United Kingdom Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, who will be presented on Thursday.

Like the French leader, Trump has also been accused of not having done anything to end the war. The United Kingdom leader also responded to Trump by calling Zelensky a “dictator” in saying that he was democratically chosen leader “of his country.

Both Macron and Starmer will seek to present a united front to Trump to convince him not to make decisions on Ukrainian and European security without involving Europeans, Maillard said.