War in Ukraine, presidential election in Russia… Nicolas Tenzer’s “8h30 franceinfo”

The specialist in geostrategic issues was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Sunday March 17, 2024.

Nicolas Tenzer, teacher at Sciences Po, specialist in geostrategic issues, and author of Our war, crime and oblivion: for strategic thinking published by Éditions de l’Observatoire, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Sunday March 17, 2024. War in Ukraine, presidential election in Russia… He answers questions from Jean-Rémi Baudot and Agathe Lambret.

Western troops in Ukraine: Macron lifts a “taboo” and is “right to do so”

Emmanuel Macron raises a “taboo” and has “reason to do it”, says Nicolas Tenzer. Returning from Germany where he participated this Friday in a tripartite summit with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the French president once again raised the possibility of sending Western troops to Ukraine, in a interview at Parisian-Today In France.

“If we don’t go faster, further, stronger, we will be forced to”explains Nicolas Tenzer. “We have never won a war when we fight in a sort of backyard, when we have our war fought by someone else. There is a certain moment when we must directly ask ourselves the question of ‘commitment”he added.

Presidential election in Russia: “An increasingly totalitarian regime”

“There is no presidential election in Russia”argues Nicolas Tenzer, before expanding. “We are going to have a figure which obviously means nothing because not only can democratic candidates not run and you have massive fraud.” According to him, Vladimir Putin “needs this vote despite everything to establish something. He is someone who wants to control everything, who even needs this charade of an election and the highest possible participation rate and obviously, the number of votes in his favor.”

🔴Presidential election in Russia➡️”This is not a presidential election. If ‘election’ were a proper noun, and not a common noun, it would be an insult”, according to Nicolas Tenzer #8h30franceinfo pic.twitter.com/zX6sducUew

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Concerning the perpetrators of the incidents which marred the election, they themselves risk “very big”, assures Nicolas Tenzer. “That is to say prison, but you have to know that when you have someone who opposes Putin, it’s the whole family who is concerned. It’s the wife or the husband who will lose their job, children who will not be able to access university. If there are young children, they will not be able to access a nursery, explains the specialist. You have these persecutions on a daily basis in a regime which is becoming more and more totalitarian in the literal sense of the term.”

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