Faced with the Russian “existential threat”, but also “the questioning of the international order” involved by the return to the power of Donald Trump in the United States, Manuel Valls judges this Monday, March 10 in BFMTV-RMC that starts from the French political class is not up to the pair. The Minister of Attacks abroad “those who accommodate power, violence, question the rule of law.”
“There has always been a fascination with Russia (…) there is a fascination with power, brutality. The same people fascinated by Vladimir Putin are today by Donald Trump,” he judges.
Manuel Valls criticizes former Prime Minister François Fillon, who addresses Ukraine and Europeans in an interview with the current values last Tuesday, even if he acknowledges that Russia “committed a fault”, unleashing war.
“We can’t minimize” Russian threat
Therefore, the former presidential candidate, auditioned in 2023 at the Assembly about his links with Moscow and his past presence in the board of directors of the Russian multinationals, points out “a part of responsibility” of the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
While François Fillon also judges that Russian threat is “infinitely less” compared to “radical Islamism” that “has continued to progress for thirty years,” says Manuel Valls: “We cannot minimize it (this threat) due to the change that represents the unpredictable nature of US politics.”
The former Minister of the Interior refers to the return to the power of Donald Trump, marked as well by an approach between Moscow and Washington as by tensions with kyiv and a certain disconnection through the suspension of US military aid in the country attacked by Russia in February 2022.
“Beyond the criticisms we can bring to the US administration, it forces us especially to react. This is what the President of the Republic implies and I appreciate it,” he said.
Speaking of a “form of resignation”, on the one hand, of the French political class, Manuel Valls also addresses “a certain number of statements of political leaders of the national concentration”, but also of rebel France, whose “worldview” is “marked by its relationship with Russia or by anti -Americanism,” according to him.
Source: BFM TV
