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CHRISTOPHER DICKEY and ANNA NEMTSOVA at the Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/24/russia-s-putin-picks-le-pen-to-rule-france.html
"SNIP..........
MOSCOW Russian interference in the American elections last year was downright subtle compared to what weve seen this week in the run-up to French presidential elections.
The two-round vote on April 23 and May 7 could change politics, defense, and the economy in Europe more radicallyand more in Russias favoreven than the chaos spawned by Donald Trumps iffy triumph in the United States.
And on Friday, Putin endorsed his candidate: far-right-wing, anti-European-Union, anti-NATO, anti-immigrant, anti-American, pro-Trump candidate Marine Le Pen.
Of course, Putin said, We don't want to influence in any way the events going on [in France], but his government received Le Pen as if she already were settled in as the head of state in Paris.
.............SNIP"
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(10,173 posts)Eliot Rosewater
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(8,203 posts)sanctions imposed by the EU. after Moscows March 2014 illegal annexation of Crimea and the subsequent violence in Ukraines eastern region. Pootie needs Le Pen to help lift the sanctions....thus US support for Russian sanctions needs to stay in place....