Actually it's exactly the right way to do it without fear of CEE countries he has called "hawks" and "war mongers"
It's why CEE killed the egotistical idea of Macron and Merkel along speaking to Putin in 2021
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Ulrich Speck: What went wrong with Russia? Macron in his Globsec speech: "We have not engaged Russia in a security dialogue for ourselves. Basically, we delegated this dialogue to NATO, which was probably not the best way to achieve it."
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