Putin invokes Napoleon, Macron hits back

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After Russian President Vladimir Putin said “There are still people who want to go back to the times of Napoleon, forgetting how it ended", his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron responded “the only imperial power I see in Europe today is Russia.”

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00:00Since the times of the French Emperor Napoleon, since Napoleon's invasion to Russia, some

00:08people are still eager.

00:10There are still people who want to go back to the times of Napoleon, forgetting how it

00:14ended.

00:17Napoleon led conquests.

00:19The only imperial power I see in Europe today is Russia, and it's an imperialist revisionist

00:24of history and people's identity.

00:27And we want to be a power of peace and balance.

00:30Basically, all the choices we make, including those made by our armies, to avoid tomorrow's

00:35war are choices for peace.

00:38And so I think President Putin should return to that vision.

00:41In any case, it's a historical misrepresentation in the reference, and it's undoubtedly because

00:46he was stung by the fact that we unmasked his game.

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