Nigeria, March 9 -- His Excellency Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, is a pendulum. He dangles across political and ideological lines. Sometimes, he seems to forget what he said in the morning. It is therefore not surprising that in the Russo-Ukrainian War, he has swung from being a peacemaker in 2022, to an advocate of damaging Russia without destroying it, on to demanding in 2024, an outright invasion and destruction of Russia.

I am sure he is not so daft not to realise that his advocacy to militarily overrun Moscow is an invitation to a Third World War. I don't know if he cares; his objectives are to grab the headlines and position himself as the leader of the so-called free world.

The contemporary Ukrainian political crises ...