Ukraine, Baltics rebuke Macron for suggesting 'security guarantees' for Russia

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2. Macron should have taken history and geography into account before coming out with that

Russia has been invaded exactly twice in the last 200+ years. Both incursions ended in disaster for the invaders, the first of which was France's own Napoléon I (Hitler was the other).

Russia's vast population and geography should be enough to discourage ANY outside invader from wanting to take over the place. So what if they have natural resources? They were always for sale. Why instigate a war to grab them? Buy them, and Russia will have the funds to spend on your products, too. Where do you think their mafia got the funds to buy up $100 million apartments in Manhattan after all? Not by invensting in the Moscow stock market, that's for sure.

Most anyone with a map, but especially someone from Germany or France should know that no one is looking to invade and conquer Russia. It's the other way around. Russia has always been on the lookout for neighbors it could gobble up.

One can only hope that Macron was tactfully choosing his words for a Russian audience. They sure ring hollw in the West.