Russias Putin Picks Le Pen to Rule France

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CHRISTOPHER DICKEY and ANNA NEMTSOVA at the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/24/russia-s-putin-picks-le-pen-to-rule-france.html

"SNIP..........


MOSCOW — Russian interference in the American elections last year was downright subtle compared to what we’ve seen this week in the run-up to French presidential elections.

The two-round vote on April 23 and May 7 could change politics, defense, and the economy in Europe more radically—and more in Russia’s favor—even than the chaos spawned by Donald Trump’s iffy triumph in the United States.

And on Friday, Putin endorsed his candidate: far-right-wing, anti-European-Union, anti-NATO, anti-immigrant, anti-American, pro-Trump candidate Marine Le Pen.

Of course, Putin said, “We don't want to influence in any way the events going on [in France],” but his government received Le Pen as if she already were settled in as the head of state in Paris.

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[JHan]

1. indeed.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. what are the polls, how can she have a chance, are the French people stupid too?

[asiliveandbreathe]

3. We need France and England to continue to support the

sanctions imposed by the EU. after Moscow’s March 2014 illegal annexation of Crimea and the subsequent violence in Ukraine’s eastern region. Pootie needs Le Pen to help lift the sanctions....thus US support for Russian sanctions needs to stay in place....