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France Cozies Up to Russia

Vaiju Naravane, The Hindu | March 4, 2010

Last Monday, Head of State Sarkozy hosted Russian President Medvedev in order to seal the biggest arms sale ever from a NATO country to Russia. ++ In return, France increases its dependence on Gazprom pipelines, undermining all prior American and European efforts to free themselves from the rule of Russian Gas. ++ Washington is targeted as well: "Paris is a major player on the international scene and France is determined to carve out a foreign policy niche for itself with or without the active cooperation of Washington."

Fri, Mar 5th 2010, 02:00

Marie-Claude Corneauster, self-employed, Gold Contributor (125)

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I like this comment! What's this?

Well the article hasn't all the facts, R. Gates was present in Paris when the discussions were on the purchasing of "Mistrals", he didn't comment, though if he had had any reflexion to express, I bet he would have done it. This is in correlation with the "reset button", and also when Madeleine Albright was visiting Moscow, pushing ahead for Russia to become "a possible Nato" member too !

Sure, Georgia, Ukraine, and the former eagles of the Bush administration don't see this trade with sympathy.

If France hadn't made it, Spain, Korea were on the ranks... so better that we care for working class that will have no worry for a few years !

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