War in Ukraine
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Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour have certainly “condemned” the Russian attack in Ukraine but they continue to protect Vladimir Poutine. For ideological reasons but also very political ones and well-understood interests.
Obviously, the two far-right candidates did not applaud the aggression of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Invited on BFMTV on Friday morning, Marine Le Pen split a “unambiguous total condemnation of the violation of the integrity of the sovereignty of Ukraine”, at least as categorical as that “without reservation”, by Eric Zemmour, Thursday. But, at the same time, the Maurrassian polemicist believed that the“we absolutely must reassure the Russians about Ukraine which, for them, is a Russian country”, while its rival National Rally (RN) warned of the scope of the economic sanctions taken against Russia. “You should not treat this over the leg. The French are extremely weakened today due to the collapse of their purchasing power and the rise in energy prices”, claimed Le Pen, therefore opposed to retaliatory measures against Russia in the name of “economic protection of the French”.
In short, even forced and forced to recognize the wrongs of friend Poutine, the two rivals of the French far right, who supported mordicus (…