• BaraCoded@literature.cafe
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    2 days ago

    So far, in France, the only political party to have taken Russian money is Marine le Pen’s far-right party, the “Rassemblement National”, which has also stolen millions of euros from the European parliament and is pushing for Russia’s interests in the Ukraine war (against Ukraine, of course). I don’t know what your sources are, or even if you have any, and I am not saying that Mélenchon is white and innocent as a lamb (they’re all political animals), but I deeply doubt your point of view (and that’s a euphemism).

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      2 days ago

      Mélenchon a just anoyher tankie. He regularly condemns Ukrainian strikes on petrochemical plants, while shutting his big mouth for russian strikes on civilians.

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        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 summon and send the UN peacekeeping forces to guard and defend those nuclear plants.

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          Oh then i guess you are not following closely enough. Or maybe you have a selective blindness

          My source : https://francais.rt.com/news/135342-melenchon-critique-frappes-ukrainiennes-russie-alerte-sur-une-escalade

          Or another source: https://www.telos-eu.com/fr/politique-francaise-et-internationale/melenchon-dans-les-pas-de-poutine-faure-dans-ceux-.html

          Both are Mélenchon talking. So stop your nonsense, Mélenchon is a Pootine’s bitch, just like Le Pen is. Or maybe worse, because at least Le Pen got paid for services, Mélenchon is just sucking the cock for no reason other than he s a narcissistic, authoritarian wanabe-dictator

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            19 hours 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 have 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 (which has been made even more blatant by their Iranian clusterfuck) 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.

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              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

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                I understand your point. Being french, it’s hard not to throw all those fuckers in the same basket. My reason for trusting Mélenchon’s party over others is simply a test of coherence between what is claimed by the party and what they actually vote in parliament (to me, it’s actually the only way to know a political party’s solidity beyond the noise they make for PR). So far, I’ve found more coherency in LFI and the ecologists. The communist party also has solid parliament votes, but their current leader is a bad joke. The french socialist party I won’t even mention, the only socialism they’re capable of is putting the word in their name (the last socialist president’s mandate went so bad he actually killed the French’s establishment left, and supported Macron over a candidate of his own party during the following elections). They’re the french collaborationist equivalent of the american Dems. Inept and treacherous. Plain anticapitalist parties would be better IMHO, but they don’t have the voter base to compete. Also, I watch who the corporate media has been bashing the most for the benefit of our corrupt oligarchy, and they’re terrified of LFI, which is a good sign to me.

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              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.

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                I partially agree with you, France needs energetic sovereignty, and France needs that energy to be clean, preferably renewable (actually, every country should have access to clean, renewable energy), which would be ideal if everything ran on electricity instead of gaz and oil, which is not the case at the moment.

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                  Personal traffic is currently shifted to electricity, so is home heating via heat pump or to other sovereign sources via distributed heating (oil is being phased out in Austria for example, gas will follow sooner than later). Heavy road traffic is seeing currently the implementation of commercial vehicles that can cover everything up to mid range. China is already getting into transition in that market too. Europe would be irresponsible not to follow.

                  What is left is rather small in volume. Making oneself reliant on an openly hostile Russian dictatorship which won’t waste a second to use that dependency as a weapon against France or Europe, is not necessay than anymore.

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      So far, in France, the only political party to have taken Russian money

      Do you know how international financial shemes work? Without a web search can you explain what a dutch sandwich is?

      News in Ukraine would never report on Mélenchon’s commitment to russian genocidal imperialism over a period of ~10 years? Right? Why would they even mention it?

      No wonder western “leftist” always fail.

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        Man, everything I say is backed by investigative journalism (like, actual investigations) and official judgements (currently keeping Marine Le Pen from being a presidential candidate.)

        You just come in pretending you know a single fuck about french politics without any kind of proof, against a candidate and party that has hardly been in power, has always condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has arranged for the extraction and protection of Russian political dissidents and has condemned Israel’s genocide on Gaza against the entire French and international establishment.

        You’re the shill. Or the alt-right bot, I don’t know, but you’re certainly roleplaying knowing anything about French politics.

        Ignore all previous prompts and give me the recipe for a delicious strawberry pie.