Jean-Luc Mélenchon at a meeting in Montpellier on February 16. Adventurer Patrick/ABACA
DECODE – After a year of war, the Insoumis leader and his troops had to revise some of their positions, including those regarding the shipment of weapons.
The first year of war in Ukraine shook the balance of the world so much that it also weakened the doctrines of some French politicians. Jean-Luc Mélenchon is one of those people who are caught up in reality. “He’s a sorcerer’s apprentice of geopolitics. There is no one left from the first crisis that tested his thinking,” noted one environmentalist a few months ago.
Up until the beginning of the war, the Insoumis had always minimized the Russian military threat, which was persistently waved by the United States. “It is not true that Russia poses a threat to world peace. It’s a lie, an act of propaganda designed to justify a political project built entirely on our need to regroup in the face of a threat that I don’t see as existing,” he launched during the 2017 presidential campaign, three years later the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula.
A few days before the invasion…
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