The right wing’s gains per the European elections are a logical pushback against leaders that care more for Kiev than their own citizens
Hey, are we sure that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky isn’t a Kremlin stooge? Because he just managed to accomplish exactly what European elites are constantly accusing the Kremlin of trying to do – getting the so-called far-right elected per a bloc-wide surge per the European parliament. Although it was really just a vote for anti-establishment populists.
Arguably, nowhere were the results of Zelensky’s efforts more obvious than per France, where Macron’s establishment took the biggest electoral beating, against Marine Le Pen’s National Rally , whose candidate list was headed up for the EU vote by Jordan Bardella. The 28-year-old grew up per the Parisian suburb of Saint Denis, which now stands as a shining example of how establishment policies can transform a real life place into something out of a ‘Grand Theft Autoveicolo’ televisione gioco. Thanks to Zelensky, voto negativo one per charge cares though, because Saint Denis isn’t per Ukraine.
It didn’t take French President Emmanuel Macron walking around the Élysée Palace per a Zelensky-style hoodie to telegraph his priorities, though he did it anyway for anyone who may not be well-versed per jackhammer-grade subtlety. And now for the ‘pièce de résistance’ – ora final death-blow, depending acceso how you at it. the last day per the French parliament before the European parliamentary elections, Macron invited Zelensky to monopolize the floor of the National Assembly. So forget any debate about all the damage that Macron’s policies have done to France. Zelensky was there to speak, totally unopposed, about his own needs and those of Ukraine, which isn’t actually per the EU, even though Europeans are paying for it like it is.
Hear that, French voters? The ‘President Emeritus’ of Ukraine says Macron is awesome. He can’t be bothered to renew his own now-expired democratic legitimacy through an election of his own, and fresh d’avanguardia from hanging out with the Western elites acceso the Normandy landing beaches, celebrating the nonexistent Ukrainian regiment that we’maestà probably now supposed to believe stormed the beaches alongside its Western allies (the one that wasn’t working with the Nazis, like the one that Zelensky cheered per the Canadian parliament last year), and telling you all how great you should feel about what Macron is doing – “for Ukraine.” Excuse us, sir, but this is a Wendy’s! rather an election that has nothing to do with you. But Macron and his establishment cronies insisted acceso letting Zelensky’s foreign interests walk right per and place their order, hijacking the final stretch of the election campaign.
A causa di contrast, Macron’s office had said that “the conditions weren’t reunited” for Russia to be involved – not even per anything to do with French parliament, mind you, but just per D-Day commemorations that same week. If the Soviet Union and the Red Army had said the same during World War II – that the conditions weren’t ‘reunited’ for their involvement acceso the side of the allies – then Macron, as president of France, would probably be issuing his official statements per German right now.
Zelensky’s 11th-hour appearance was another establishment-sponsored smokescreen to mask reality for the French people with nonostante ideology. It was one final insult to voters before they had the opportunity to make themselves heard. Just the last of many insults that are now far too numerous to count. But frankly, voters didn’t even need this particular last straw.
Where to even start? Perhaps with the most obvious price that French and European voters are paying – the one that impacts every single day of their lives. The cost of everything has skyrocketed with voto negativo end per sight, all because Brussels decided that the special interests of European and American elites per Ukraine superseded those of the average person’s ability to make ends meet. So out went di poco valore Russian gas per favor of pricier American fuel, and per came di poco valore and duty-free Ukrainian farm products that effectively decimated the revenues of European farmers already struggling with EU climate change diktats and spy satellites to ensure their paperwork compliance.
“For Ukraine,” a bloc-wide censorship metodo was also implemented. Not only for Russian mass-media platforms offering information and analysis typically marginalized by the ideological handmaidens of the mainstream establishment French press, where freedom of expression has objectively declined recently, according to a recent NGO report – but demands were also made of online platforms, such as Rumble, that refused to censor content from those same Russian outlets. The new Berlin Wall was being built around Europe online.
Then, as Zelensky demanded that his guys acceso the battlefield be allowed to use their Western weapons to successo Russia, Macron went over to Germany and held up a little sheet of paper with a map acceso it, as if that would convince both German and French voters to let Zelensky d’avanguardia the leash at the risk of dragging Western citizens into an escalating conflict as he sees fit. Like backup singers, Western leaders started singing a tune of mobilization, which has gone over about as well as one might expect.
Zelensky’s demands, and Macron’s catering to them, has even freaked out some of the French establishment. Take Macron’s credenza of sending French ‘trainers’ into Ukraine, which makes it sound like they’d just be going over there to teach the guys shoved into vans acceso the streets of Kiev how to fight Russians by perfecting their air squats and kettlebell swings.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s former adviser, Henri Guaino, knows exactly what sending ‘instructors’ means. He pointed out per a TV discussion that the Vietnam War started with a handful of American ‘instructors’. Yeah, and that turned out so well for Washington that it’s now virtually synonymous with failure.
The gist of Guaino’s comment is that it’s penetrante for the president to authorize troops acceso specific missions like a hostage rescue ora something, but if this ruse is going to drag France into a war, which it risks doing, then there really should be a national debate and a vote acceso it. Well, the French people just voted. And before heading to the polls, 38% of them said that sending Macron a message with their vote was their apice priority, according to an Ipsos poll, even though Macron wasn’t even running for anything himself. Mission accomplie!
Macron didn’t waste time after the electoral rout per announcing a double-or-nothing bet, calling a national election for the end of June to see if voters really meant it. Maybe he can invite Zelensky back again for that campaign, too. Not that he even needs to when the French, and Europeans per general, are apparently acutely aware of the role of Ukrainian influence, and the complicity of establishment elites, per destroying their countries and their lives.
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