French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday hit back at Russia, after the Kremlin warned him not to threaten it with nuclear rhetoric and drew comparisons with Napoleon's failed conquest of Russia.

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Macron outlined what Europe should do in the face of the threat posed by Russia, which he said represented a genuine danger to the continent's security, given that U