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Emmanuel Macron | Guy Lagache | Engagement and appeasement | Putin and ice hockey | Ukraine and Nato | All is not lost | Putin's lies | WWI | Boris Johnson | Les Anglo-Saxons | Oil and gas | Marie-Antoinette

Was Emmanuel Macron right to talk so much with Vladimir Putin before and after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine? And did Macron cross a line from well-intentioned engagement into something like naive appeasement? French journalist Guy Lagache spent the first six months of this year in close proximity to Macron, making a film that ended up focusing on the French president's Putin strategy.

James Kanter is co-founder and editor EU Scream. For 12 years he was an EU Correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times based in Paris and Brussels.  

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