French President Emmanuel Macron appears to be indulging in a grand delusion, casting himself as a modern-day Napoleon, leading Europe into a new era of military intervention. However, unlike the historical emperor who reshaped Europe through decisive campaigns, Macron’s latest push to escalate Western involvement in Ukraine is not only strategically reckless but also economically opportunistic and politically disastrous. His suggestion of sending European troops into Ukraine under the guise of peacekeeping threatens to transform the conflict into an all-out confrontation between NATO and Russia.

Macron’s interventionist ambitions have found an eager ally in Britain’s newly elected Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. Dubbed “Wish Wellington” by critics, Starmer appears to be channeling the legacy of the Duke of Wellington, though without the latter’s strategic foresight. In reality, Macron and Starmer’s Ukraine gambit resembles the catastrophic misadventures of George W. Bush and Tony Blair, who launched a military coalition in Iraq without clear objectives or an exit strategy.

Macron has floated the idea of a month-long ceasefire in Ukraine before deploying European troops. He insists this would serve as a peacekeeping measure rather than an escalation into active combat. However, even the presence of Western troops on Ukrainian soil would constitute a blatant provocation, inching dangerously close to NATO’s red lines and triggering a potential direct military response from Russia. Moscow has repeatedly made it clear that the deployment of NATO forces in Eastern Europe is a severe provocation; further Western militarization in Ukraine would only heighten tensions.

Macron’s assumption that such a deployment would stabilize the region is not just misguided but delusional. Placing foreign soldiers into an active war zone is akin to pouring gasoline on an already raging fire. Vladimir Putin has consistently warned that such moves would be seen as a direct act of war. If Macron........

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