The sequence has been circulating for several hours on social networks.
Invited Tuesday evening to a debate on the war in Ukraine on France 5, LFI deputy Aymeric Caron described the Donbass as
“disputed territories”
, where
“it is necessary to listen to the populations who are mainly concerned”
, and on
“which there are disagreements”
.
Recognizing that
“Ukrainian integrity has been violated”
, the Insoumis nevertheless considers that certain inhabitants of Donbass, part of the country which was annexed by Vladimir Putin in September 2022,
“made the opposite choice”
of a rapprochement with the 'Europe.
“There are separatists,”
the former television columnist even thundered, raising the ire of part of the set and the wrath of several specialists in international issues on Kremlin propaganda and narrative.
If Aymeric Caron tried to detail his position on Wednesday morning, the controversy did not escape the person who continues to make his mark on the left: Raphaël Glucksmann.
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While the PS-Place publique candidate for the European elections is experiencing strong progress, - he is gauged at 13% (+2) voting intentions according to the latest Harris Interactive poll for Challenges -, the essayist, who international issues his hobbyhorses, took leadership on the left.
Reason why Raphaël Glucksmann no longer hesitates to raise his voice.
In an interview with
L'Opinion
published Wednesday evening, he dared to denounce the
"Putin-pacifism"
of the Insoumis' comments, which is not
"proper"
to LFI.
“I know Donbass unlike Aymeric Caron
,” he snaps.
A “guilty blindness”
According to him, the
“French elites have long remained in this guilty blindness.”
“Each time, they validated Putin’s conquests by speaking of a “gray zone”.”
And to deconstruct the analysis of the deputy from Paris:
“There have never been separatists in Donbass.
No more than there was a popular revolution in Crimea.”
A convinced European, the pretender supported by the Socialist Party thinks that
“what is at stake in Ukraine is not a Russo-Ukrainian affair”
, but rather
“a war against the West.”
For Raphaël Glucksmann, as for other leaders, it is better, during an electoral campaign, to seize the opportunity.
The opportunity was therefore too good not to criticize the declarations of Jean-Luc Mélenchon made on Saturday during a meeting in Villepinte.
According to the tutelary figure of La France Insoumise,
“peace is possible with regard to Ukraine on the condition that we understand that there can be no other outcome than where there is neither winner nor loser. »
.
Without naming it, the essayist rants against those who
"thought they had peace"
, by accepting the
"invasion and dismemberment of Georgia, the annexation of Crimea and the occupation of Donbass"
, while
"we have had the war.”
“When we have a tyrant whose only goal is to overthrow the European security architecture, we stand up to him
,” Raphaël Glusckmann still proclaims.
Who adds:
“Submission to the aggressor does not keep war away, it brings it closer.”
“To all those on the left who present me as a warmonger, I ask: what does it mean to be a pacifist?”
One thing is certain, Raphaël Glusckmann has entered the electoral arena.