Western grandstanding and symbolic gestures after two years of war in Ukraine – opinion
Not long after the start of the war two years back, Ukrainians came up with a cheeky term for the kind of dissimulated concern and vacuous solidarity offered up by self-interested groups and politicians. They called it “Macronity,” for the idea of support from a distance found its neat encapsulation in the pity pouts and winces of the grief-heavy French President Emmanuel Macron. Macro talk, micro results.
