The only head of state to have been excluded from the Legion of Honour was Marshal Pétain, for collaboracting with the Nazis. For Nicolas Sarkozy’s supporters, the parallel that may thus be drawn between him and Pétain is completely unfounded.
“There are 500,000 dead in this war. There is an aggressor, Russia, Putin. And a victim, Ukraine. But can we think about how we get out of this?” Sarkozy said.
Continuing dialogue with Vladimir Putin is essential and possible, says Sarkozy, while condemning the West’s stubborn fixation with a contradictory, and unofficial, military commitment that is not officially assumed.
