Will the conflict in Ukraine cause a war of words that will divide the Western camp? On Tuesday April 12, US President Joe Biden claimed that Russian aggression against his western neighbor had gone a step further, suggesting that a “genocide” was now underway. As reminded by Financial Times, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki had already described Russian violence against civilians as “genocide”, when his Spanish counterpart, Pedro Sánchez, called for an investigation against a “possible genocide”. Subsequently, Canadian Justin Trudeau and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas picked up the term, with Volodymyr Zelensky claiming that“Calling things by their proper name is essential to standing up to evil”.
But the French president, Emmanuel Macron, meanwhile took the opposite view of Joe Biden, wanting to be resolutely more cautious about this qualifier of “genocide”. Questioned in the program “Télématin”, on France 2, Wednesday April 13, he declared:
“It is madness what is happening, it is incredibly brutal […] but at the same time I look at the facts, and I want to try my best to continue to be able to stop this war and to rebuild peace, so I’m not sure that the e