'It's now the world of Putin, the world of Donald Trump,' says France's far-right leader Marine Le P

[DonViejo]

Source: Newsweek



‘It’s now the world of Putin, the world of Donald Trump,’ says France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen

BY JASON LE MIERE ON 3/24/17 AT 10:02 AM

French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said Friday “it’s now the world of (Vladimir) Putin, the world of Donald Trump,” after meeting with the Russian president in Moscow, a reporter for the Guardian said on Twitter. Le Pen’s trip to Moscow and particularly her surprise meeting with Putin has stoked fears of Russia attempting to influence the outcome of France’s presidential election, the first round of which is now just a month away.

Link to tweet

Le Pen, the leader of France’s National Front, has long called for the lifting of sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union on Russia after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. On her trip to Moscow, she reiterated that stance, calling the sanctions “counterproductive.”

Her party, from which she took over leadership from her father, has also attracted scrutiny for borrowing millions of euros from Russian banks. Le Pen has countered by saying that “if any English or American bank would offer money I would gladly accept it.”

Earlier this month, an aide to Le Pen’s chief rival for the French presidency, centrist independent Emmanuel Macron, accused Russia of mounting a duel campaign of hacking and fake news. Macron and Le Pen are the leading contenders in the presidential race.



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[nikibatts]

1. Racist, bigoted wench!

[JTFrog]

2. Fuck that noise.

I hope she has as much success as Geert. Assholes the lot of them.

[deminks]

3. BBC pic

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39375969

[dalton99a]

11. Putin and his little French whore

[DK504]

12. I thought tRump was his whore.

He bent over enough far more than anyone else.

[Moostache]

4. What do we call a world-wide civil war?

This is right-wing lunatics across the globe uniting in common cause and looking to filch the populations of America, Europe, Russia and undoubtedly Asia too.

This is getting out of hand, fast.

[MBS]

13. This has been creeping me out for 2 years

It's like Voldemort gradually reassembling himself with each successive Harry Potter book.

To LePen,Trump, and Putin, you can add Farage, the Putin mini-me Victor Orban in Hungary, Zeman in the Czech republic, the rightward turn of Poland, Wilders in the Netherlands (thankfully he lost in the last election, but he and his "people" are still around), the right-wing guy in Austria (also defeated in last election, but just barely, and, again, he's still around) , Duterte in the Philippines. . and more (it's getting hard to keep track.)

But worst of all are their supporters.

[malthaussen]

5. "And I, for one, am happy to follow in their footsteps." n/t

[BeyondGeography]

6. Allez-vous en, espece de facho.

[2naSalit]

9. Vraiment!

[ananda]

7. This is the ultimate result of global colonialism and exploitation.

People from exploited countries moved into Europe and America,
sometimes willingly and sometimes not (as slaves).

When the oppressor countries have problems, race-baiting and
demonizing the immigrants always works to divide the citizens
and keep the oppression in place.

That is what is happening with the rise of the white supremacist
rightwing in the USA and in some European countries.

Putin and 45 do have control of this particular trend right now,
and I also believe that it will ultimately destroy much of humanity
if not all.

[NewRedDawn]

8. Such a nasty little Nazi.

[dalton99a]

10. Fucking racist, fascist pigs.

[Coventina]

14. Lemme guess: She wants to become Philippe Petain.