PARIS — François Hollande is realizing this week that his plans to build a “grand and unique” international coalition to fight ISIL may have to be pared down.
In Washington on Tuesday, the French president met a Barack Obama who pledged to increase U.S. military cooperation with France but didn’t seem to jump at the prospect of joining it in a “war.”
When Hollande travels to Moscow on Thursday, he will meet a Vladimir Putin aggravated by the downing of a Russian jet fighter by Turkish forces, an international incident that could make him even more distrustful of the West’s intentions in …read more
Source: European Voice
