While Joe Biden is traveling to Poland this Friday, March 25, the place of the United States is questioned in this conflict between Russia and Ukraine. After the NATO summit on Thursday 24 March, one has the impression that the Americans lead the dance against the Russian offensive. But is it a reality? To answer this question RTL invited Nicole Bacharan and Pascal Boniface to its microphone this Friday, March 24.
Franco-American political scientist, specialist in American society and Franco-American relations, Nicole Bacharan, recalls that “the american army is the first in the world“. “We can have lots of disagreements with the Americans, but when Europe is faced with an existential threat and well in the end we say to ourselves that there is only the American army”, she assures .
For Pascal Boniface, the founder and director of the Institute of International and Strategic Relations, “the United States is finally getting back on the stage”. “They had lost a lot of their credibility after the Kabul debacle and there Joe Biden is taking advantage of this moment to show Europeans that in the face of the Russian threat there is only American protection which may be worth“, he argues.
Democracies will not be able to coexist with the current regime of Vladimir Putin
Nicole Bacharan, the Franco-American political scientist, specialist in American society and Franco-American relations.
The 100,000 American soldiers who are deployed in Europe do not constitute a form of interventionism according to Nicole Bacharan. “The American project is to take care of Asia and to leave Europe alone and focus on the American democratic and economic problems,” she explains.
“They are there because we are in an existential threat for Europe but also for democracies“ begins Nicole Bacharan. “Today, Joe Biden understands that democracies will not be able to coexist with the current regime of Vladimir Putin” she analyzes.
–
–
