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French philosopher Luc Ferry on the pointlessness of confrontation with Russia: This war is stupidity. We will end up with 600,000-700,000 dead, again for nothing. Because of heinous war crimes. And what is the end result?
Putin becomes the leader of the global south. Do you think that's smart? He does more than just show up. Look at what's happening in Africa. Putin is taking the place of the French in Africa. It used to be a China-Africa alliance, now it's Russia-Africa. So what we have accomplished is that Putin has become the leader of the global South, which is 2/3 of the planet.
[And is that a failure too, you say?]
Obviously, it's a big failure. On the other hand, have we succeeded with sanctions? Back in 2014, I published an article against anti-Russian sanctions, but not out of love for Russia, but because they pushed Russia to reorganize its entire economy towards the global South, towards China, India and Africa. And today Russia is taking our place in Africa. Look at what has happened every time, look at Mali, very rude remarks against France, even our flags are being burned.
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