In France, the president was Emmanuel Macron. For Russia this is very good. For the world - too. For France - I do not know. Let the French judge. For Russia it is good, because Putin's hopes to split Europe and organize coalitions, as in the 19th century, collapsed. Europe remains united. The stones laid by the fathers of the founders of the European Union - Adenauer, Schumann, Monet, de Gasperi - remained in their original places. The more consolidated Europe is, the faster Russia will change.

And the second is that Macron is a consistent supporter of the inviolability of borders in Europe. He will not go on a deal with the Crimea. And this is also good for Russia. Until the status quo ante bellum is restored, Russia will remain an outcast. And the sooner the Kremlin ceases to hope for the possibility of preserving the one seized in 2014-2016 in Ukraine, the better for Russia.

But this success and all-European. If Europe again divided into rival national states, as it was in the XIX century or in the 1930s. , Then war is inevitable. Not the war between Germany and France, before this is very far away, but the war of the pro-Russian coalition with its opponents. I am sure that it is not so much NATO as the united Europe - the guarantor of peace, of course with the support of NATO.

Yes, 40 percent for Ms. Le Pen is a lot, although the low turnout makes her success not so impressive. And, nevertheless, Macron faces the most difficult tasks:

to get France out of the doldrums of nationalism, and to reform the European Union so that the Brussels bureaucracy ceases to be the main power in it, giving way to the European Parliament and the otherwise formed Council.

It is very important for us that Emmanuel Macron succeeds in these difficult arenas.

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