Like a change of foot. One year after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Jordan Bardella seems to openly support Kyiv, although without profoundly changing his position.
“There was a collective ingenuity regarding the intentions and ambitions of Vladimir Putin”, thus indicates the new president of the National Group in the columns of Opinion this Thursday.
“The real knocked on our doors”
With these words, the RN seeks to distance itself from Vladimir Putin, who was a model for the party before the war in Ukraine. Marine Le Pen had thus confided in 2011 her “admiration” for Vladimir Putine.
The president of the RN group in the Assembly is also one of the few French political figures who has been able to speak with the Kremlin leader in recent years by going to Moscow in 2017 during the presidential campaign. Without a French loan during this campaign, the movement had to turn to a Russian creditor to finance his race for the Élysée.
If the former presidential candidate assured in March 2022 on BFMTV that she would not “regret anything” for her comments about Putin, however, she considered that she had “crossed the red line”.
“Reality has knocked on our doors and it is clear that the Vladimir Putin of five years ago is not the one who, five years later, decides to invade the Ukraine and commit war crimes in Odessa or Mariupol”, says Jordan Bardella in L’Opinión. Before adding: “You cannot be a patriot and a sovereignist and be insensitive to the violation of the sovereignty of a European State.”
Since the beginning of the conflict, Jordan Bardella has already described the invasion of Ukraine as an “extremely serious fault” by Russia.
Against the delivery of arms
Jordan Bardella had already taken a step towards Ukraine on February 10 during Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to the European Parliament, giving him a standing ovation at the end of his speech. However, several frontista deputies had delayed on this idea before finally having to attend as reported. Release.
Nor is it a matter of sending for him to send “planes, tanks and, more broadly, long-range missiles”, as the Ukrainian president nevertheless affirms.
“If tomorrow Ukraine used missiles that could hit Rostov or Sevastopol, we would open the doors to an escalation, de facto,” fears the European elected representative, who prefers to send anti-aircraft defense systems and armored vehicles.
Source: BFM TV
