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Clinton speaks rubbish french…..

Hillary Clinton has criticized Emmanuel Macron’s policy towards Russia – the French leader should take it as a compliment

 

If the warmongering American chastises you for seeking diplomacy, you know you’re doing something right

 

Former US Secretary of State, First Lady, Senator, and failed presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, passed through Paris last week, and seized an opportunity to chastise French President Emmanuel Macron on his own turf. 

 

BY Rachel Marsden

 

Clinton was interviewed on state broadcaster Radio France by Christine Ockrent – the journalist wife of former French foreign affairs minister, Bernard Kouchner – who asked about Clinton’s view of Macron’s recent controversial remarks. “We must not humiliate Russia so that the day the fighting stops, we can build a way out through diplomatic channels,” Macron had told the French regional press. “I am convinced that it is the role of France, to be a mediating power.” Clinton replied: “When we say that we don’t want to humiliate Russia, quite frankly, that seems a bit outdated to me. Putin crossed the red line a long time ago.” Clinton added: “I think the ultimate success would be defeating Putin. And in this, I can only agree with what President Zelensky and his government are asking for, that is, a total withdrawal from the occupied territories in Ukraine.”

Clinton perfectly captures the ideological mindset that plagues the Washington foreign policy establishment. We’re a far cry from the statesmanship and realpolitik foreign policy realism of her predecessor, former diplomat Henry Kissinger. He recently told the Davos World Economic Forum that peace in Ukraine should be negotiated within two months and should involve leaving the newly-seceded territories in the East, whose Russophone populations have suffered years of Kiev-led attacks and harassment, under the control of their pro-Russian authorities.

Clinton embodies the prevailing “us versus them” thinking on foreign policy matters. Everything is viewed through the narrow lens of the interests of a precious few American elites, with little care for what might be best for the average American citizen, let alone those of other nations, including Washington’s allies.

Clinton is also part of the Democratic Party old guard that blame Russian President Vladimir Putin when they stub their toe. In just the latest example, President Joe Biden said last week: “We've never seen anything like Putin’s tax on both food and gas,” in addressing the inflation that has spiked under Biden’s watch and policies. Putin isn’t taxing anyone in America, just like he didn’t “steal” the 2016 presidential election from Hillary Clinton. But Clinton has publicly blamed “Russian WikiLeaks” for her loss to Donald Trump, referring to WikiLeaks’ release of her campaign manager’s emails (and also “misogyny”), which revealed a cozy, arguably collusive, relationship between the Clinton campaign and the press to Trump’s detriment.   

Instead of soul searching about why that might have turned off voters who don’t appreciate being manipulated, or acknowledging the complexities and challenges of technical attribution for any such breaches, it’s no doubt easier to just blame Putin. 

Clinton really doesn’t risk much in doing so. Hollywood loves a good villain and Washington can always capitalize on a dramatic narrative that simplifies complex diplomacy into good versus evil. As Secretary of State, Clinton oversaw the NATO bombing of Libya, the migration blowback from which Europe is still feeling. 

We came, we saw, he died,” Clinton jubilated on the set of an interview when she found out that Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi had been liquidated in what was essentially a NATO-backed coup. Clinton reacted to Gaddafi’s death like her team had just won the Super Bowl, rather than treating it like a major geopolitical event with serious and lasting repercussions for regional stability. 

 

Clinton was equally reckless towards Syria in her role as top diplomat, as she cheered the failed US-backed regime-change war against President Bashar Assad through the use of Pentagon and CIA-backed “Syrian rebels.” “We think Assad must go,” Clinton told ABC News. “The sooner the better for everyone concerned.” 

Russia was ultimately left to clean up the mess that she helped cause, lest a “Big Bang” of jihadists disperse and find their way to Eurasia. But Clinton clearly couldn’t see past the end of her nose in assessing a potential fallout. 

So it’s not exactly shocking that Clinton is now advocating in favor of Putin’s removal from office and the prolongation of the Ukraine conflict. It’s certainly not Clinton who’s going to be paying any kind of price in the event that her misguided advice is pursued, but rather the average Ukrainian, European, and Russian whose interests she’s treating like pawns. And if Emmanuel Macron needed any convincing that his recent stance in favor of peace sooner rather than later in Ukraine – along with the normalization of relations with Russia – is indeed the right path, the fact that Clinton is against it should be reassuring.

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.

 

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https://www.rt.com/russia/557210-clinton-criticized-macrons-diplomacy/

 

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the snakes versus the reptilian…..

The former first lady and secretary of state lost to Donald Trump in a highly charged election in 2016, with her supporters going on to blame everyone but Mrs. Clinton for the loss, including Vladimir Putin, the FBI, the media, Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, Susan Sarandon, white racists and Barack Obama.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have given a pair of back-to-back interviews warning that US democracy was in danger and that Donald Trump is to blame.

 

“I actually think there’s a fair chance that we could completely lose our constitutional democracy for a couple of decades if we keep making – if we make bad decisions,” Mr. Clinton said, speaking to The Late Late Show host James Corden on Wednesday following the third televised hearing of the January 6 committee on the 2021 Capitol riots.

 

“I’m not naïve about this. I’ve been in a lot of fights. I’ve lost some, won a bunch. I’ve been elated and heartbroken. But I’ve never before been as worried about the structure of our democratic form of government,” Clinton added.

Given a softball question about his favourite “fictional president” in the movies, Clinton quipped that he “liked Tony Goldwyn, I liked Martin Sheen, I liked Michael Douglas, I loved Harrison Ford and Morgan Freeman and Donald Trump and…”

 

In her own interview with the Financial Times on Friday, Mrs. Clinton echoed her husband’s concerns, suggesting the US was “on the precipice of losing our democracy, and everything that everybody else cares about then goes out the window.”

The former secretary of state said that “the most important thing” for Democrats was to win the next election. “The alternative is so frightening that whatever does not help you win should not be a priority,” she stressed.

Characterizing herself as “the most investigated innocent person in America,” Clinton dubbed 2016 as a “traumatic event” and a “break in history…a piece of unfinished business.” She went on to make Trump-style allegations about being robbed of the presidency. “Literally within hours of the polls closing in 2016, we had so much evidence pouring in about voters being turned away in Milwaukee and not being able to vote in Detroit,” she recalled.

 

“Even in his reptilian brain, Trump has to know that he lost this time,” Clinton said, referring to the 2020 cycle. “He refuses to accept it because it wasn’t supposed to happen,” the former first lady said, predicting that Trump will run again in 2024 “if he can.”

 

“Follow the money with Trump – he’s raised about $130 million sitting in his bank account that he used to travel around, to fund organizing against elections…I don’t know who will challenge him in the Republican primary,” she said.

 

 

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https://sputniknews.com/20220618/clintons-say-america-at-risk-of-losing-democracy-to-trump-as-poll-predicts-looming-us-civil-war-1096442053.html?rcmd_alg=collaboration2

 

 

 

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europe's hurting.....

The leaders of the three major countries of the European Union, Mario Draghi (Italy), Emmanuel Macron (France) and Olaf Scholz (Germany) called on President Volodymyr Zelensky (Ukraine) in Kiev.

All three have publicly urged for Ukraine to be granted the status of candidate state without delay, in view of its joining the European Union.

The three men reaffirmed their support for Ukraine, but were careful not to mention a "Russian withdrawal".

According to Die Welt, the three heads of state and government also privately pressed Ukraine to negotiate a quick way out of the crisis with Russia. Germany, France and Italy are suffering heavy consequences from the war and cannot afford to see it last.

 

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https://www.voltairenet.org/article217349.html

 

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It is to be noted that Russia has "not bombed" any railway or roads leading to Kiev, leaving the EU, the US and the UK to do some conciliatory fiddles with Zelenskyyy-y — by promising more guns while asking the little shit Volodymyr to NEGOTIATE ASAP....

EUROPE IS HURTING. The next Russian move will be to destroy all the transport networks leading to Kiev as apparently Lithuania is preventing the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad to be served according to international treaties... 

The US are now in two minds about lengthening this little war....

 

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macronleon has a small problem…...

Two days after her speech and while Elisabeth Borne continues to address the presidents and presidents of the groups in the National Assembly, on  Friday June 24, Emmanuel Macron put into perspective his loss of the absolute majority in the National Assembly.

"We cannot at the same time consider that our Europe must be a democratic and strong Europe and deplore the fact that most governments and parliaments reflect the democratic life of our countries", declared Macron, in Brussels, where he is attending a European summit.


"I believe that's what Italy and Germany are doing and that's what we will do, what we will do with all the government parties, to be able to build either a coalition or [groups] agreements on texts to move forward on a clear agenda,” he said. France "knows how to compromise — including yours truly", he added during a press conference, promising to work "with a lot of heart, will and optimism" in this direction.


The situation in France is "terribly banal at European level"


"I am very confident because I believe in the good will of the women and men who are there to represent the nation", who have "different sensitivities but are part of the republican field and the desire to govern, to move the country forward, ” he hammered, without specifying which party he included.


Macron endeavoured to put the political situation in France into perspective after the legislative elections, noting that it was the common lot of many European countries and that the presidential camp, with 245 seats out of 577, was closer to an absolute majority than in many other EU States. "France is in a parliamentary situation that it experienced in 1988, with few differences, but [which] is above all horribly banal at European level", he said, noting that of the 27 EU Member States, “twenty” have coalition governments, “some with five, six, seven partners”, and others “minority governments”.


"Even if in France, there is in Parliament today a relative majority, it appears to be very important compared to many other parliamentary systems with a pure proportionality", he continued. In his speech to the French on Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron estimated that he had "missed around thirty deputies out of 577" in his camp, without explaining, while, de facto, 44 ​​are missing to reach an absolute majority (289).

 


La Nupes opposed to Emmanuel Macron's approach
Guest of the France Inter morning show, MEP Yannick Jadot went for a compromise in the National Assembly. "In view of the emergencies", he recalled that the ecologists "take part" in the compromise according to the polcies presented to the National Assembly, but placed the responsibility on the shoulders of the government, both in the way of reaching a compromise only on the content of the policies.


He added about the political situation and the risk of blockage that it was not the fact of the oppositions, but of the head of state himself. “The situation today is not blocked by the so-called opposition groups, it is blocked by a President of the Republic who is struggling, [by] the presidential election and [with] the legislative elections, underlined the former presidential candidate. Will Emmanuel Macron be the architect of a refounded democracy, or will he remain a president braced on his own power, constantly tempting the poaching and submission of other political groups?".

 

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https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2022/06/24/emmanuel-macron-estime-qu-il-faut-batir-des-compromis-a-l-assemblee-et-juge-la-situation-francaise-affreusement-banale-au-niveau-europeen_6131937_823448.html

 

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