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kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 2 days agoMélenchon a just anoyher tankie. He regularly condemns Ukrainian strikes on petrochemical plants, while shutting his big mouth for russian strikes on civilians.
BaraCoded@literature.cafe 2 days ago
Following French political activities closely, I have NEVER heard or read him say anything like that. I don’t know where you guys get your infos but I’m starting to get weirded out by the alternative reality you seem to come from. Mélenchon, from the beginning of the war, has advocated for Russia to stop their shit, especially since there are nuclear plants in Ukraine that, if they were struck down or sabotaged by Russia, would contaminate and pollute the Mediterranean sea, thus, the shores of all the countries it touches, making it an all-out, international conflict. It was even a point he used to try and convince the European community to send the UN peacekeeping forces to guard and defend those nuclear plants.
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh then i guess you are not following closely enough. Or maybe you have a selective blindness
My source : francais.rt.com/…/135342-melenchon-critique-frapp…
BaraCoded@literature.cafe 1 day ago
I see your point, but I also see its short-sightedness. Nobody “sucks cock” for no reason, especially in politics.
Source 01: It’s recent, I didn’t have that. All I read is that he doesn’t want the conflict to escalate even more, and I think we’ll all agree on not wanting a 3rd world war/nuclear apocalypse. So far, it is coherent with his positions, and I agree that it would only benefit America (who’s already led by a fascist and holding Europe by the energetic balls after the destruction of the Northstream pipeline). Russia has threatened to use nukes, after all. Also, if Russia is gaining resources and a power stance against NATO by invading Ukraine, Ukraine is gaining nothing by pushing the front on Russia, except revenge. It’d be cool if they could off Putin and end this madness (they have tried by sending attack drones), but if it could be done, it would already have been done, I guess. Also, Putin had told in the past that if NATO, that he considers to be an American-led adversary, tried to integrate Ukraine, making it an “American” advanced base just next to Russia, the shit would hit the fan, and it happened. IMHO, if Ukraine could had been an independent, buffer state between Russia and NATO states, or maybe an exchange state (commercial, diplomatic, etc), things may have not become as dire as they are right now (except, Russia has already invaded and claimed Ukrainian territory in the past).
Source 02: I don’t trust Think Tanks. They’re never neutral and are usually composed of university people with no professional outcome other than lending their voices to the private interests that pay them. I’ll agree on one thing, though: how the fuck could Ukraine organize presidential elections in its current state (unless there is an actual ceasefire), and even if there was a ceasefire and an election, what would guarantee that those elections wouldn’t be manipulated by Russia and that a Russian plant wouldn’t be elected?
My speculation: Trump isn’t eternal. Putin either. But, to preserve France independence from the predatory, failing and now fascist USA (which will not end with Trump) in the long term, France needs to get cheap Russian energy (Northstream), instead of being forced to buy American energy at an arm’s cost. I think the shift Mélenchon is planning for is simply the fall of the USA, which will make Europe even more vulnerable to Russia’s wrath. And in a world where the USA has destroyed itself, the needed allies are… Russia and China, because America isn’t top dog anymore. I think Mélenchon is pushing for an end of the war even if that would benefit Russia (which isn’t fair for Ukraine), in order to escape the predation of the USA, but I don’t think he’d suck Putin just for the sake of sucking Putin’s cock. There isn’t even an ideological similarity between the two of them. Russia isn’t a leftist state. Russia is just the predator that is the closest, and the failing USA will not defend Europe as it has pushed for not supporting Ukraine anymore. If there is a Russian plant in the western world, it’s Trump. It’s Trump who has summoned Zelensky to humiliate him publicly and pushed him to surrender to Russia. Not Mélenchon, who isn’t even in power. Trump is the pivot point. Trump is the Russian asset.
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I think you have a waayy to charitable interpretation of Mélenchon. You try to see a long term plan behind the immediate red flags, while I do not think he deserves do. He is just a politician, they have no vision beyond their immediate interests. I reject your hypothesis of his supppsed 3D chess move on US/France/Russia
Jiral@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s exactly Russian propaganda. France doesn’t need “cheap energy” ftom Russia. It needs a sovereign reliable energy supply, one that pnly renewable energy (and possibly nuclear under certain conditions) can enable. France is working on this.
“Cheap energy” from Russia is also a lie. Putin’s vassal Orban didn’t get cheap energy either. Hungary did have higher energy prices abd much higher inflation than other EU member states.