Canal+ in France is airing (and re-airing, and re-airing) a Putinoid documentary about Ukraine, trying hard to sell Putin’s propaganda to the people of France. It’s clear that the French have decided to forget the recent scare they’ve had with the success at the polls of Putin’s shill Marine Le Pen and want to convince themselves to push for the removal of the sanctions against Russian oligarchs.
This is a curious moment to consider lifting the sanctions. A British court was forced to admit – against the ardent wishes of the political establishment – that the very oligarchs the sanctions censor have been conducting criminal activities on EU soil, growing so comfortable that they actually used radioactive polonium to kill a British citizen. At the same time, Putin’s personal participation in corruption at a global scale was – again, very reluctantly – recognized by US officials.
One has to have a death wish of massive proportions to try to facilitate things for a corrupt foreign government that sponsors an extremist neo-Nazi organization on your territory but it seems like this is precisely what the French are experiencing.

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