“I’m pretty sure it won’t do anything except make life more difficult” for the Russians and the French, declared the candidate La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon this Friday on franceinfo, about the sanctions decided against Russia after its offensive in Ukraine. The MP for Bouches-du-Rhône describes this invasion as “unheard of violation of international law in Europe”.
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According to him, the sanctions will make life “more difficult perhaps for some Russians and for not long, but in any case for us, in France, a lot because the price of oil will increase, the price of gas will increase, the price of wheat will increase. All prices will rise and we will be the main victims.” Nevertheless, he considers that the sanctions, “It’s all that’s left, so we have to support them”.
War in Ukraine ➡️ “It’s all that’s left, so we have to support”, says Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who says he is “convinced that it will be useless”. “I am surprised that the government of Germany puts a limit on sanctions” says the LFI candidate. pic.twitter.com/4zBPGnwgjB
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For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, NATO is partly responsible, because it “put herself in a situation [qu’il] discovered with amazement”. “What strikes me is to see that these people have absolutely nothing planned even though they spent their time saying that the threat was terrible”, he said. He also criticizes the Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian who “makes mistakes all the time” and “we” friends “in trouble in Ukraine and Mali”.
LFI candidate thinks socialists and environmentalists who want to send arms to Ukrainians “are never late for a stupidity”believing that “everyone knows” that the Ukrainians are not able to “resist” to Russia, “that the war on the ground is lost”.
Ukraine ➡️ “Since 2014, I’ve been saying ‘if you try to establish NATO on the Russian border, you’ll have a major incident’. We didn’t want to discuss security, so we’re at war. I don’t think I was wrong”, says the candidate who calls V. Putin an “autocrat” pic.twitter.com/87CxPLcAE2
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon says he does not have “no way to know” if France plays its role, it “Assumed” that Emmanuel Macron “does its job”. For him, it is necessary “demand a ceasefire”, “demand the exit of the Russians from this country” and “get to the bottom of the matter”or hold the conference of the borders that he has been defending for several years. “We must act with vigor and determination”he adds, but “Sending troops would be madness. If we do that, we’ll start war on the continent.”
Asked about his position vis-à-vis Russia, Jean-Luc Mélenchon affirms that he is “whatever happens a pro-French”that it is “the only one to see from cover to cover since 2014” and that Vladimir Putin is “more of an autocrat” of which the “way of governing is extremely rough”.