The two candidates of the extreme right to the presidential election operate a volley-face in the wake of the first Russian bombing, after relaying for months the propaganda of the Kremlin.
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It is, until the end, blindness. Sunday, February 20, one of the main presidential candidates, Eric Zemmour, delivers his vision of the Ukrainian crisis. “I’m skeptical,” he said about Europe 1, “I think there is a lot of propaganda, agitation of American services hysterizing this story.” Twenty-four hours later, Vladimir Putin declares to recognize the independence of the independence of Pro-Russian separatist areas, then orders his army to enter Ukraine. Interviewed in turn, Tuesday, February 22 on RTL, Marine Le Pen regretted a “clear climbing”, but pronounced against the sanctions aimed at Moscow and accuses Emmanuel Macron for having “tried to play a role and to use” of this crisis .
It only once the war declared by Putin in the name of a “denazid of Ukraine”, the Russian strikes fallen on Kiev as in the whole country, the first civilian deaths announced, Thursday, February 24 , that the Pen and Zemmour have eager to return to communicate. The first calls for the “immediate cessation of Russian military operations in Ukraine”. The second “condemns unreservedly the military intervention” which he calls “unjustifiable”.
But Eric Zemmour also accuses, shortly after in a live filmed statement, the Westerners for having revenue the situation “for years with the uninterrupted expansion of NATO”. He always calls to sign a treaty to ensure that Ukraine will never enter “ever” in the Atlantic Alliance. “Like that, Mr. Putin will be reassured,” he added Sunday.
“It’s Putin assaulted!”
In recent months, Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen minimized the threats launched by Moscow while taking up the propaganda of the Kremlin on alleged American claims. “Americans did not respected their word and advanced, advanced [and] ate little by little glacis”, justified Zemmour on France 5, a month ago, comparing NATO membership with annexions territorial. A discourse in coherence with the one he held on CNEWS, in June 2021: “We must stop doing Putin the aggressor, it’s Putin assaulted it! Obviously, afterwards, he defends himself.” “The problem of Ukraine is not an invasion, I do not believe it, still asserts the candidate with insurance, on December 9 on France 2. Russia, I take the bet, will not invade Ukraine. “
Marine Le Pen was not left out. “I do not believe it at all, I really do not see what the Russians would do in Ukraine,” she hammered February 7, on Franceinfo. The national gathering candidate (RN) repeated what she herself appoints the “language elements” of the Kremlin, supporting that “the United States absolutely want to bring Ukraine into NATO, so we are in train to create a conflict that does not happen to be “. Tuesday, February 22, she believed that “France was subject to a form of cold war imposed by the European Union, listening to Americans”.
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