2023-07-12 19:27:45
Marine le Pen traveling to Beauvais (Oise), July 12, 2023, at the exit of the Saint-Jean police station, attacked during the riots. CYRIL BITTON/DIVERGENCE FOR “THE WORLD”
« Irresponsible. » This is how Marine Le Pen qualifies the decision, announced on Tuesday July 11, by Emmanuel Macron, to deliver long-range Scalp missiles to Ukraine, to help it in its counter-offensive against Russia. After having cast doubt for a long time, the Head of State confirmed, during the NATO summit in Vilnius (Lithuania), the delivery of these cruise missiles developed by France and Great Britain, launched from a fighter jet.
For the first time, Marine Le Pen explicitly opposed the sending of these weapons, she who had long pleaded for aid reduced to training or protective equipment, then limited to “defensive weapons”. “It seems irresponsible to me to make this decision and I do not understand that Emmanuel Macron is not fully focused on the organization of a conference for peace, to end this war”she said, Wednesday, July 12, on the sidelines of a trip to Beauvais, in the Oise.
Often attacked by the majority for her past proximity to the positions of the Kremlin, Marine Le Pen has long been careful not to criticize France’s support for Ukraine too frontally. A reserve which she seemed to abandon on Wednesday.
According to the leader of the extreme right, the delivery of weapons capable of “touch a third country [la Russie] can start a third world war that I don’t want to see happen (…). We do not know the reaction that a third country could have hit by a weapon delivered by France. »
Criticisms from the right and the radical left
Marine Le Pen is the only French political leader to consider Crimea as Russian, since she deemed legal a referendum organized under Russian military occupation in this Ukrainian province.
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In a war whose front has remained relatively stable since the winter, this missile allows the Ukrainian army to strike well beyond the front line, in particular in the eastern areas of Ukraine controlled by Moscow, and to Crimea. This announcement aroused the ire of the Kremlin, which sees “a mistaken decision” et “carrying consequences” for Ukraine. However, Emmanuel Macron implicitly excluded any use to strike Russia, citing “ the clarity, the coherence of our doctrine, that is to say, to allow Ukraine to defend its territory”. A commitment made by Ukraine.
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Asked to say whether this stepping up to a new level in military aid made France a co-belligerent in the conflict, paving the way for a direct response from Russia, Marine Le Pen took refuge behind the fact that “This feeling is determined by the parties to the conflict. But that’s obviously the risk. I can’t imagine that’s what’s happening, but that’s what I fear. »
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