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“Putin, the headlong rush”

2022-10-10T18:40:38.598Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Philippe Gélie. Compared to Vladimir Putin who, ten days ago, celebrated with fiery rhetoric the annexation of four Ukrainian districts, the one who, on Monday, justified his "massive" strikes against infrastructure by a "proportionate response" to "sabotage »from the Kerch bridge in the Crimea seemed to have returned to an unexpected sobriety and self-control. Certainly, seventy-five cruise missiles fired from t


Compared to Vladimir Putin who, ten days ago, celebrated with fiery rhetoric the annexation of four Ukrainian districts, the one who, on Monday, justified his

"massive"

strikes against infrastructure by a

"proportionate response"

to

"sabotage »

from the Kerch bridge in the Crimea seemed to have returned to an unexpected sobriety and self-control.

Certainly, seventy-five cruise missiles fired from the ground, the air and the sea against essentially civilian targets, causing dozens of deaths and injuries, is a violent anger that an international tribunal could reclassify as a war crime. .

But the Russian president spared us the general mobilization, martial law and the nuclear threat.

Enjoy the respite!

In fact, his show of force is only half convincing.

While the Russian army is mistreated on the eastern and southern fronts, it has already lost half of its tanks and armored vehicles, mobilization takes time and…

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Source: lefigaro

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