Macron says we may go to war with Russia in Ukraine

Politicians often say things without considering the consequences. But what was President Macron thinking when he suggested that some Nato countries were contemplating sending troops to fight in Ukraine against Russia. Even if some country had raised this in some corridor somewhere, what made Macron put it into the public domain as if it was something seriously on the agenda? The remark brought instant reaction from the Kremlin which swiftly said Russia would go to war with Nato if troops were sent to Ukraine. We really can do without this sort of inflammatory dialogue. Macron must have known how his remark would be greeted in Moscow, so did he do it on purpose to stir up tensions with Putin? In the end he caused more trouble within the alliance, with most Nato leaders jumping in to reassure everynoe that there were no plans to send troops to Ukraine. Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, bizarrely said there were no plans to send large-scale troops to Ukraine. What's that supposed to mean? It seems to suggest the UK could send a small mumber of troops. It was Joe Biden who said a long time ago that there would be no US troops on the ground in Ukraine. That's the line which the rest of the alliance was supposed to have adopted. So someone should whisper in Macron's ear that he should stick to the script.