Macron meets Putin in Moscow, aiming for a de-escalation

President Emmanuel Macron of France, who has positioned himself at the centre of Europe’s furious diplomatic manoeuvring over Ukraine, said on Monday that the continent was at a “critical crossroads” as he met in Moscow with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
Amid fears over Russia’s military buildup surrounding Ukraine, Mr. Putin and Mr. Macron met at the Kremlin, sitting some 20 feet apart at a long table to maintain social distancing. In televised opening remarks, the Russian president spoke to his French counterpart using the informal form of address, and praised France for trying to resolve the “fundamental questions of European security.”
Macron told the Russian president he was seeking a "useful" response "that of course allows us to avoid war and to build bricks of trust, stability, visibility."
Putin, for his part, said Russia and France shared "a common concern about what is happening in the security sphere in Europe".
"I see how much efforts the current leadership of France and the President personally, is applying in order to solve the crisis related to providing equal security in Europe for a serious historical perspective," Putin said.
Macron, who is expected to seek re-election in April, has positioned himself as a potential mediator, with French officials voicing skepticism over predictions by Washington, London and other Western capitals that a Russian assault is imminent.
On his arrival, Macron told reporters he felt reasonably optimistic but that also he didn't believe in "spontaneous miracles."
Russia has deployed more than 100,000 troops near Ukraine's borders. It denies planning an invasion, but says it is ready to take unspecified "military-technical measures" if demands are not met, including a promise by NATO never to admit Ukraine and to withdraw some troops from Eastern Europe.
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[@ecwfanatic]

A fun fact about the table is that it exists in 3 different time zones simultaneously

[@Awibrahor]

That’s Russia for you! 😂

[@AwRighttttt]

That's not fun and it's not even a fact!

[@ibn0017]

@@AwRighttttt it’s a joke lad

[@marouanechourfi3914]

It is a message means stay away from me loo

[@Birdlab]

It just looks big because of the tiny men sitting at each end.

[@davidpenwell3432]

With a table that far away they might as well just did it over the phone

[@AwRighttttt]

@@curtisducati Macron is a friend of mine definitely! I wouldn't be full sure on what he smells like tho nor would I care..

[@AwRighttttt]

Only a friend of mine would help close Muslim spots in France Nd help spread nationalism across the whole country like wild fire .. On the low of course nobody realy talked about it 😙🤫🤫Quick talk about kovid and lock downs again 🤤

[@AwRighttttt]

@@curtisducati Ah my spidey sences is thingling about you! No matter what you me or anyone think about these two men regardless that doesn't matter.. They both very powerful men when they wake up in the morning!So I'd imagine all these cringe insults wouldn't mean much to them or change that fact.

[@masoncarter7333]

If the table was any longer they would have to phone each other.

[@sephiroth22635]

Now that is what I call social distancing.

[@kbeau9538]

The table is that big so Vlad doesn't get knocked out by the stench of garlic!

[@noone-bo6rg]

I love the table.

[@matthewhester5891]

Can’t blame him 😂

[@AwRighttttt]

White tables/carpets /blinds /walls /ceilings /chairs /you name it it matter boys

[@bcbconklin]

MACRON IN MOSCOW: Putin: what does democracy mean? Macron: it means the LBGTQ can have lascivious marches down all your streets at any time. Putin: no thanks, then.

[@RockyScience]

Proper social distancing

[@christophermcdade3279]

That table is a joke 🙈

[@adam2four]

That table is ridiculous

[@andrewdaley3081]

That table is not long enough poor putin. 🇬🇧👍

[@namenotfound8747]

Macron doesn't get the hint from the table.

[@peace6383]

Stay away from my borders covid restrictions still in place 🇷🇺 😤😂

[@zxcvbnm5758]

Proper social distancing a.k.a F** off

[@shift7199]

The West failed to contain China’s rise during the 90s when it still could, and is indirectly responsible for the situation that we’re in now. China is making a lot of noise, flexing their military capability and expansion plans. Russia can’t just sit back and allow itself to fall into irrelevancy and a “little brother” of sorts. Putin would never allow that to happen. I don’t think Putin wants war but is being forced into a war indirectly by China, due to their rise and expansion plans. The West needs to take responsibility and make concessions on Ukraine, for the greater good of the world. Or we all lose.

[@mustafaunsoy]

The times "West" played eastern nations like puppets is approaching an end. Sorry to dissapoint you, but China will make much more noise.. Considering that more people live in China than your entire Western civilization, they have all the rights to do so. Maybe you are the evil trying to contain the rest of the world in poverty and turmoil for centuries only to exploit them and portect your prosperity.. so it may be a good change. Now the west faces the dilemma defined by Thucydides, the dilemma of Spartans facing the rise of Athens.. Soon it will be too late for the West to stop the rise of Asia, so they are trying to lure China & Russia into meaningless wars. Unfortunately, western countries don't have the guts for open conflict and China is smart enough to avoid war. The west don't have the resources to beat Asia in a war of attrition, and the time is running short. Trickeries such as proxy wars, puppet governments, using minorities and promise of democracy as a tool to destabilize nations, supporting terrorism and spreading violence, playing nations or religions against each other will not save the West this time.

[@jordankaye7432]

That tables all fun and games until someone has to pass the salt

[@user-vm1lp3ve2b]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@DamianBrown]

The wide shot is dolls house model, right? Breaking news: it's a normal table with two very small men seated at it.

[@omydog3794]

Macron just told him we surrender. Your table is bigger than mine.

[@thomasoroarke7789]

Precisely

[@johnybravo3566]

Hahaha

[@brunodesbergesdarz]

@@johnybravo3566 Va te faire mettre

[@mosesserukwaya816]

That long table is so symbolic of Putin's feelings towards Macron showing him that you can talk to me but from sort of a distance , that's a sort of humiliation

[@stephen10.]

Emmanuel Macron reportedly refused to submit to a PCR test for Russian Covid-19 france could not accept that they recover the DNA of the president" it means to meet Putin with a very long table and no handshake .

[@user-cx5wq9rn6e]

putin is really determined to put everything into the table and discuss starting from bronz age .

[@capitainebonhomme1609]

"put everything on the table" Table is 3 metres long !!! Haha 🤣😂😃

[@cloneeja]

Helal

[@roderickantony7770]

Putin wears his watch on his right wrist, Macron has more hair, Putin has mouse trap next to him, Macron is French...... opposites attract hence big table.

[@gameram6382]

France are not in nato. So good luck trying to tell everyone what they want to do

[@stephen10.]

France has returned completly in nato in 2009 , we have left in 1966 because De Gaulle thought " The possession of nuclear weapons by france in 1966 is incompatible with the integrated structures of the Alliance " . Since 1966 we continued to train with nato .

[@malpa2345]

Putin won’t listen to Macron 😂

[@thomasoroarke7789]

No but he will see Macron as a weakness to be used in his fight with the Europe .

[@fdn1697]

He won't even be able to hear Macron over that distance!

[@erdogay4949]

Weakness , coz you think TaliBiden Or Peppa pig Boris are strong 😂 🤪. World’s laughing

[@JGrant60]

Vodafone’s 4G coverage is smaller than the table

[@chezzylee]

Fun fact, president macron is in France on the otherside of the table to Putin who's on the same table in Russia.

[@tomalexander6695]

suprised putin hasn't got his army trying to invade the table

[@yankorusev]

Do you need a locator form to get from one side of the table to the other?

[@itsmahin5315]

Macron: What is you favorite food.........??? ME: Macaroni with the chicken strips ahhh...............🤣🤣🤣

[@stuartmorganbmx]

google how many nukes France has then watch this again

[@stuartmorganbmx]

@Burning Union Jacks Outside of China Russia and USA France has the next most amount of nukes .This escalated from Russia playing war games with Belarus to a possible invasion

[@davidmiller1379]

They are the real threat to humanity

[@jamesstorr390]

@Burning Union Jacks 120 nukes is enough to level every Russian city lol 😆

[@omydog3794]

It only takes one then kiss your arse goodbye.

[@stuartmorganbmx]

@@jamesstorr390 Russia's launch capability though could flatten Europe

[@johnbowkett80]

Shows the utter contempt he has for Macron .

[@zayedharoon3910]

Macron is garbage though

[@hareem1981]

I think there is a political reason behind that long table! Putin choice that table for a reason, in my understanding it means what Ever you talk about it’s far away from our agenda and our Goal :)

[@jacobzaranyika9334]

Thank you🙏

[@putthecookiedown9761]

is that it, nothing much was said ???

[@WhackTony]

This is what Putin needed in Hungary

[@anthony387]

A distanced conversation. Perhaps the next time they talk it'll be 5 metres long if things don't progress well

[@spirit6owl]

Is that a table?

[@robertliddington6927]

Macron and France playing a key role. Britain is no longer relevant. Thanks Bojo you clowning means we aren’t at the table

[@mustafaunsoy]

Ahahaha.. Putins gave a clear message how serious he takes France. No one takes Macron seriously. Germany or Turkey is much more effective than France in this issue, let alone Britain. Maybe France will lay an amargo by not sending their cosmetics, and people will take them seriously :):):)

[@stephen10.]

Macron has phoned to Boris and lot of others presidents before to meet putin. Macron is like a spokeman for them too . ( i m french , i know that UK is important in this cirsis. we play as team of nato

[@Awibrahor]

Small man, big table. Reminds me of little Mussolini occupying a huge office.

[@AwRighttttt]

Small man with more power in his baby finger than youl ever have

[@AwRighttttt]

@@kevt3318 I wouldn't think so no.

[@AwRighttttt]

@@kevt3318 I wasn't even talking about them! Why yous talking crap about men like them that's the only smart question that needs asked?

[@mustafaunsoy]

@@kevt3318 no he is not the only one who has nukes, but he is the only one who can actually use them.

[@mustafaunsoy]

@@kevt3318 can they afford retaliation?

[@user-kc9mc5yd5w]

The table is a symbol ?!

[@fdn1697]

Are they trying to re-enact that dinner scene from Shrek 2 with that table?

[@milantubic229]

What meeting? There was no meeting. The table is so big so they didn't meet each other.

[@jbala9078]

When a meeting table is Longer than a 10ft stick. It’s not good.

[@stephen10.]

lol we know the reason in france , Emmanuel Macron reportedly refused to submit to a PCR test for Russian Covid-19 when he arrived at the Kremlin on Monday, france could not accept that they recover the DNA of the president" it means to meet Putin with a very long table and no handshake .

[@robincrypto4748]

The Table looks small, they could have placed a longer one.

[@AckzaTV]

hes like "Thats great France wants Peace but go tell that to the USA" lol

[@alexmiller23]

you said it right!! all European countries are US puppets who do not have their own opinion. afraid to say usa

[@carlg5086]

Macron and Putin agree to settle Ukraines fate over a game of air hockey.

[@theway674]

They need a phone to hear each other.

[@Jut_tc]

Student having a set down with his teacher like Neville Chamberlain didn’t have a talk with Hitler. SMH. A 🦂 never cease to sting🤷🏽‍♂️. Wake up 🔝 Westward.

[@bbb2956]

The table is saying we are too far apart

[@tinabates542]

I think they need a bigger table 🤔

[@888ssss]

i have the same coffee table at my house.....

[@stephen10.]

Emmanuel Macron reportedly refused to submit to a PCR test for Russian Covid-19 when he arrived at the Kremlin on Monday, france could not accept that they recover the DNA of the president" it means to meet Putin with a very long table and no handshake .

[@rthelionheart]

Keep your distance on steroids!😂

[@rxhx]

That table is comical

[@otron805]

We know who is the boss here.

[@macroevolve]

They would need baseball gloves to pass the salt shaker

[@edikaramuratful]

Btw putin listening to macron be like ahhh... That was a really good stake i ate, i feel good now, now lets listen to him A LITTLE BIT what he has to say.

[@adamaloui8517]

French president Seams like a doll

[@albin2232]

"We have both agreed that we need a Dead Cat to distract people from the serious domestic problems we face."

[@davidreynolds3082]

Anyone would think that there's a French election looming...hmmm ;)

[@edikaramuratful]

Jokes aside ,anyone has any serious idea why he put macron so far away?

[@usul573]

Just COVID precautions. I know they both get tested regularly and are vaccinated but they're being careful.

[@ahmetbozkurt1921]

Neden mi? çünkü Putin Avrupa'ya olan mesafesini koruyor.Sözde insan hakları ve demokrasiden bahseden iki yüzlü Avrupa'ya defol git diyor.

[@christiancaicedo7096]

@@usul573 that’s the excuse, but Putin met the African leaders in chair side by side, hugs and handshakes.

[@usul573]

@@christiancaicedo7096 No one traveling to Moscow wants to get tested. If they don't steal your DNA they might poison you.

[@centraltim6134]

I like the table, can eat more than 30 people

[@RR-fox]

I am a citizen of Ukraine I love and respect Putin! I disgust the United Kingdom, which climbs into my country! Boris go home!!! No English weapons in my country!!!

[@donking454]

100% agree, and no other foreign weapons or troops, we the British people wish for Ukraine to be left to defend itself and its people. Good luck.

[@theodorevegh6030]

"European Race Government 2022 AD" by President Theodore Alexander Vegh, B.S.

[@danneedstogo9166]

One can skate on that table.

[@Upsurging93]

With that table looks like he invited all the UN and only Macron turned up.

[@cido-patricio1123]

We all in this world just want peace and not war. In the situation on the European continent, it involves an empty world and hampers the activities of human civilization to have free aspirations.

[@michaelh4227]

I bet family dinners at Putin's place must be wild.

[@tfhmobil]

Maybe I’m not the one to judge on PR, but I would keep some distance too. The little French pretty boy, coming to Cremlino di Mosca and asked for time together with the macho man, during time of war ? How inappropriate….. Maybe Macron did believe it was a good time for talks, and see what Mr. Putin had to offer, but there’s a time for everything….. I’m happy the pretty boy didn’t start singing “Go easy on me”.

[@kickasszombie4368]

The table😂😂😂😂

[@mr.anderson3288]

Lol nice table

[@omarx2449]

😂😂😂😂 look how far he’s sitting haha

[@chrifus31037]

Stupidly long table 🤨

[@our-days-are-short8254]

Hmmm two evils.

[@myofficetop]

so this was antiCovid table

[@charlespeterson3798]

Don’t like the way Putin holds his attention.

[@dangerousminds4176]

BORIS Johnson to STAY 💪🥳

[@bobshaw1966]

All for show. The same billionaires own both.

[@dptyt7409]

Seems Putin dussent like French Cuisine....

[@vuslat4080]

Putin humiliating macron and France

[@w.s.2102]

Macron is todays Neville Chamberlain….. Europes almost wide open for the taking…. The question is, how much does Putin want to spend?

[@sidelyaderin8331]

we want to see Erdoğan and Putin together.

[@AJ-qn6gd]

Macron went to Russia to negotiate the French surrender ! 😜🇬🇧

[@stephen10.]

he wants to restart Minsk agreements signed by russia ukrainia france germany in 2014.

[@MrMarkar1959]

Aiming,,lmao. hey man nice shot

[@feriyeaddg8774]

Last grannybender versus last west-bender 🤣🤣🤣

[@user-vs7cw2rg7r]

As Russia invades Ukraine, Macron flies into Moscow to accept Putin's terms for the French surrender.

[@lestrem11]

Putin interviews Macron…….

[@semra9806]

Putin 😍🥰

[@hillmoon9833]

President macro shows his high e.q and i.q very much

[@dalegribble5896]

Batman

[@Rajons22]

Macron paillasson.

[@namenotfound8747]

Ahh... the French being French.

[@puspavaliapselvam1265]

World War 3

[@casper5379]

HaHa Russia the West is your Daddy x

[@butperest2223]

M(I)CRON

[@jonathanrussell594]

Putin is the real deal.. 🤔

[@TomTomOrk]

Car Vlad nawet nie spojrzał na tchużliwego macarona. Macaron myślał że coś ugrał.

[@VeronicaTaylorPME]

Vlad mind jeti warrior schools Pee pee Le Pews comical attempt in international politics

[@jesusisking3974]

Macron has absolutely NO intelligence compared to Putin....it's like shiny shoes against steel toe capped Boots.

[@Rajons22]

Macron paillasson.