I perceive it as also driven by a serious change in the war, the fact that North Korean troops have joined Russia on European soil, Macron said to journalists in connection with the G20 countries' meeting in Brazil.
He added that Russia, by taking support from North Korea, is the only party in the war that is escalating the situation.
So it's actually a sudden change that has led to the American decision.
Macron met with the outgoing American President Joe Biden at the G20 meeting. Biden has not commented on the Ukraine message, but a representative of his government has confirmed the change of course.
Green light
Now the questions are many about whether other Western countries will also give Ukraine the green light. It's about Britain's long-distance weapons of the Storm Shadow type, among other things.
The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, also in Brazil, is sticking to the fact that the advanced German Taurus robots cannot be delivered to Ukraine.
The incoming American President Donald Trump has not commented on Biden's new line. But people around him have done so and called it an escalation from the American side.
No one knows
It's a step towards escalation and no one knows where this will end, says Mike Waltz, whom Trump has chosen as national security adviser, to Fox News.
Trump's son Donald Trump Jr writes on X that "those in the military-industrial complex seem to want to ensure they get a third world war before my father gets a chance to create peace and save lives."
