"As you know, the modern world, especially the Western world, is highly monopolised and many Western countries – whether they want to hear this or not – have voluntarily given up a considerable part of their sovereignty. To some extent, this is a result of the politics of blocs. Sometimes we find it very difficult to come to terms with them on geopolitical issues. It is hard to reach an agreement with people who whisper even at home for fear of being overheard by the Americans. This is not a joke or a figure of speech."
June 28, 2015 "Information
Clearing House"
-
Vladimir Putin denounces, more and more
explicitly, the servility of France and Europe towards
the United States, whether in the case of wire-tapping
French leaders or that of Mistral ships.
The publication by WikiLeaks of documents
establishing the wire-tapping by the United States of
three French Presidents was an open secret known since
the revelations of Edward Snowden. Far from protesting
against the flagrant violation of French sovereignty
that the espionage of its top leaders constitutes,
our government bravely
hastened to hush up
this scandal,
as was expected by Lavrov and Putin.
Let us remind that France prided herself in 2013 upon
rejecting asylum for Edward Snowden, and that it is
illusory to
believe that these revelations
could change anything
: official France cannot but turn down flat
Julian
Assange’s calls.
By refusing the delivery of two
helicopter carriers ordered and paid for by Russia,
France is both disgraced and discredited internationally
as a reliable economic partner and military supplier.
The inept pretext of the Ukrainian crisis and alleged
Russian interference, invoked by a country that involved
itself in the Syrian crisis by arming Al-Nosra
terrorists (of which it is apologetic) and
calling for the overthrow
(even murder) of the legitimate Syrian leader,
reveals the extent of the hypocrisy and indecency of the
French government and its subjection to American
diktats. Especially since this same government then
concluded huge arms sales contracts with the barbaric
regimes of Qatar and even Saudi Arabia, engaged in an
illegal and criminal war in Yemen.
While trade between the US and Russia
is increasing,
their European "allies" are forced to
impose sanctions on Moscow and suffer alone its
formidable repercussions: thus Vladimir Putin has
renewed for one year the Russian embargo on food
products from Europe.
Vladimir
Putin recently said to Charlie Rose,
an American TV star presenter who asked incredulously if
Russia really aspired to gain respect (indeed, what a
preposterous idea):
"You
know, I hear this all the time: Russia wants to be
respected. Don’t you? Who does not? Who wants to be
humiliated? It is a strange question. As if this is some
exclusive right – Russia demands respect. Does anyone
like to be neglected?"
To this rhetorical question, our French
leaders respond 'yes' without hesitation and continue to
whisper in their own homes for fear of prying ears (and
microphones).
Instead of a rapprochement with Russia, a
historic partner concerned about the respect of States
and their sovereignty, in addition a rising great power
and
champion of the defence of
international law,
France and Europe prefer subjugation to the US, the
superpower in irremediable decline with which they chain
their destinies. It is easy to
conceive the repulsion that Russian elites,
despite their
professionalism,
must feel for our inglorious leaders.
Probably to the extent of the felt more and more by
their own peoples, whom Putin chooses to address
directly.
Former arrogant colonial power and
conqueror, then sovereignist Gaullist Republic, France
is now relegated to the status of American sub-colony
whose independence and national interests are routinely
violated and trampled, as much by the stateless and
spineless leaders in Paris, repeatedly guilty of the
crime of high treason (abolished,
thankfully for them), as by the imperial hawks in
Washington. Even a country
like Algeria, a former French colony run by a corrupt
and retrograde military regime, has at least leaders
concerned of their national interests to the point of
refusing any participation in the Saudi-American
coalition against Yemen, while Hollands' France was
ready to pounce gleefully on a new crusade in Syria,
which could have triggered World War III. One may ask,
to use
an expression of Norman
Finkelstein,
why prostitutes have such a bad reputation... Welcome to
Western mediocracy!
Translated from
French by
Jenny Bright
Vladimir Putin
on the tapping
of French
Presidents: This
scandal will be stifled (English
subtitles)
Briefing
session with permanent members of the Security Council
of the
Russian Federation,
25 June 2015
Source:
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/49766
Transcript:
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues,
Mr Lavrov will tell us about the consultations in Paris. Let’s start with this. Please, Mr Lavrov.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov: On the whole, it was not useless because even despite certain wrangling during the discussion, the main outcome was the acknowledgement of the fact that there is no alternative to complete fulfilment of the Minsk Agreements. First and foremost, the acknowledgement by our German and our French partners of the fact that the overwhelming part of the Minsk provisions should be implemented through direct dialogue between authorities in Kiev and Donetsk and Lugansk.
I can’t say that we have resolved all the problems because this should be done directly by the Contact group and the working subgroups created. I will report on that in more detail later, but on the day of our meeting, a report on the taps [by the United States of the French leadership] was published, and this gave rise to unrest in France so this was another thing that distracted our attention.
Vladimir Putin: How will this scandal end?
Sergei Lavrov: Frankly speaking, I think that Germany’s example [the US special services wiretapping the German leadership] gives the answer: I think that both sides will try to blanket the scandal and forget about it.
Vladimir Putin: That is what would happen.
