Edwy Blenell, founder of Mediapart, denounces the concessions of the right and the false complacency of the left, and calls for a "left opposition" to the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin, which he sees as a "Stalinist ideology", rejecting national communism and the concentration of power in the hands of one person, He called for self-determination of peoples, explaining that Europe should rearm the Ukrainians and provide them with more "military" assistance.
In this context, the French magazine "Le Point" (Le Point) placed its interview with Eduy Bellinel, the French communist writer and journalist on the Trotskyist doctrine, starting from an article explaining the emergence of the "new Russian imperialism" that threatens to die in the eastern part of Europe, resuming his defense Which he had started in 1999 during the NATO intervention in Serbia when he was editor-in-chief of Le Monde newspaper, sided against Slobodan Milosevic.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (Reuters)
political uncle
In the dialogue - conducted by Saeed Mahran - the founder of Mediapart explained that he wrote to try to understand the French blindness that is constantly being traced back to the ideological and financial compatibility between the extreme right and the Putin regime, and to the "contemporary" blindness of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, noting that this blindness showed that France, The guarantor of the Minsk agreements, did not expect what the Putin regime was preparing to come, and its president continued to believe that he could persuade Putin, even when it was necessary to support those whose lands were attacked.
Edwi Blenel warned that solidarity with peoples should be the compass to get out of indifference to the fate of those peoples, noting that today we are paying the price for our indifference towards the Syrian people, in that first moment in which Putin - with the help of Iran - left the Russian-speaking space and appeared with a new face. An imperialism that was supposed to be anti-Western.
Today we are paying the price for our indifference towards the Syrian people, in that first moment when Putin, with the help of Iran, left the Russian-speaking space and appeared with a new face of imperialism that was supposed to be anti-Western.
Among the signs of political blindness - according to Edwi Blenel - is that Europe has not dealt with its independence with regard to defense, although this is legitimate, and that not demanding it exposes people to the worst, as is the case today, at a time when Putin is fighting the choice of the Ukrainian people, allowing The alliance and the United States have the right to be the masters of the game, and it creates for Europe a problem of subordination to the American approach.
When asked about the "maniac refrain from humiliation" that Putin uses to justify his war and mobilize his people, Mediapart founder recalled what historian Marc Ferro wrote about resentment as a driver of history, noting that humiliation may turn into a force that legitimizes the hatred and demonization of others, and suggested a path that allows exit By recognizing the occurrence of acts of repression, massacres and genocide, France must therefore recognize its responsibility for the fate of the African peoples, and at the same time no African power should base its legitimacy on this rent.
The trap
The journalist pointed out that it cannot be accepted that liberation reproduces vertical states and personal powers and rejects pluralism, which means that we must, for example, fight against the embargo on Cuba and denounce American arrogance, but we must also stand in solidarity with people when they are oppressed and imprisoned by Cuban authorities.
As for the trap set for us, it is clear from Putin’s propaganda, where this aggressive imperialism presents itself as a uniter of all oppressed peoples by Western imperialism, inviting people to follow it in a crusade against the West, even though it oppresses peoples, especially if I were in Russia today I would be in Exile, imprisoned, or killed, but in the West I can denounce it, just as the United States succeeded in documenting torture in Guantanamo and the lie of the invasion of Iraq.
However, the founder of Mediapart rejects the manifestations of russophobia that have led to the deprogramming of Russian artists in the West, and said that we must continue to support the Russian people, and welcome those outside the walls who are fighting the Putin regime.
At the conclusion of the interview, the writer concluded that the Ukrainians should be helped to fight, because it was necessary to help the Syrian people from the moment they were the victims of a genocidal war carried out by their regime, concluding by saying “Help the people and do not act in their place. The Ukrainians are defending their sovereignty, and this should not be replaced Sovereignty with another. We must support them on values. We must help political forces that resist invasion, while at the same time defending social rights and rejecting oligarchy and corruption."