Emmanuel Macron affirmed, during the inauguration of the Olympic Village of the Paris Games in Saint-Denis, that each of his words was "weighted" and "measured" His comments on the potential sending of ground troops into the country earned him a dismissal from his main allies and a scathing response from Vladimir Putin. Many European countries, including Germany, Poland, Italy and the Czech Republic, as well as the United States, have for their part categorically rejected the idea of sending ground troops.