“We don’t need the chin thrusts of the warmongers,” says Marie Toussaint (Les Écologues)

Thursday March 14 in the evening, At 20 Hours of France 2, Emmanuel Macron confirmed his position according to which nothing should be excluded in the face of Vladimir Putin’s progress. “We have to hit Russia in the wallet, that’s how we’re going to help the Ukrainian people”estimates Marie Toussaint, head of the list of Ecologists in the European elections, guest of “4 Vérités” on France 2, Friday March 15. “We must first use the 200 billion euros of frozen Russian assets, plus the 30 billion euros of the oligarchs, to make them available to Ukraine in order to be able to finance both its war effort and its reconstruction”she adds.

Fracture on the left over the war in Ukraine: “There are disagreements”

Isn’t raising a military threat a solution? “We don’t need the blows of mentondyou’re going to war”, affirms Marie Toussaint. How can we understand the economic and agricultural argument that a victory for Russia would represent, which would control a significant part of the wheat reserves if Ukraine had to lose this war? “Vladimir Putin, if he wants to conquer Ukraine, it is not only to re-establish the borders of great Russia, to expand the extent of his dictatorial power, but it is also because Ukraine is a granary. […] There are strategic metals in Ukrainian soil, which are the strategic metals of the transition”develops the head of the list of Ecologists in the European elections.

Is there a divide on the left on the question of the war in Ukraine? “There are disagreements, and I believe that this is visible, there is no point in denying them. On the other hand, everyone aspires to peace”specifies Marie Toussaint.