2024-03-12 20:20:00
Tuesday March 12, Gabriel Attal took up the martial torch usually carried by Emmanuel Macron to introduce the debate on the security agreement signed between Paris and kyiv. According to him, “voting against” support for Ukraine amounts to “turning our back” on its history.
In mid-February, the French president welcomed his Ukrainian counterpart to the Élysée to discreetly sign a security agreement between the two countries. Neither one nor two, Volodymyr Zelensky is promised “up to three billion” euros in military aid to lead his fight against Russia. The French having reacted to this disconcerting news, to say the least, the government deigned to consult Parliament. This is where the young Gabriel Attal comes into play.
“To vote against is to signal to our allies that France is turning its back on its commitment and its history” and “to abstain is to flee, to flee its responsibilities in the face of history, to betray what is ours.” more expensive since June 18, 1940: the French spirit of resistance”, declared the head of government, a new media warmonger. LFI voted against the agreement, the RN abstained.
As specialist as he is, Gabriel Attal believes that “we are at a tipping point” in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and salutes the “resistance of the Ukrainian people (which) has been and remains exceptional”.
“Support for Ukraine means recognizing that it fights every day for our values and that it is part of the European family” because “this war is a long-term one. A war of position is is now at stake and for Russia, time is now an ally,” he added.
According to him, Russia is “counting on the weariness of Ukraine’s allies”, “on upcoming elections, in the United States and in Europe”, where the far right is making progress at the polls, and “on the effectiveness , in the long term, of its work of undermining and disinformation”. France is therefore “a target of choice”.
And, because Russia is “an authoritarian regime, determined to fight our values and our interests”, a victory for Russia in Ukraine would have “concrete, tangible risks” on “the daily lives of the French” and “would be a cataclysm for (their) purchasing power. Eh yes ! “Food inflation to the power of ten, an explosion in energy prices to the power of ten. I could go on for a long time listing one by one the concrete, tangible, direct risks of a Russian victory for the daily lives of the French. (. ..) The French would live less well with more expensive food, more expensive energy, growing insecurity,” he listed.
A victory for Russia is what “authoritarian regimes are waiting for to spell the end of the history of liberal democracies”, it is “weakened European security, increasing cyberattacks”, and a “risk of widespread energy failure. “If Ukraine loses, we lose too,” he concluded from “the depths of his heart and guts”, before shouting “Slava Ukraini!”
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