In a previous article entitled “What are Macron's warlike gesticulations and warlike rantings for?”, after emphasizing that the French army did not have the human and military resources to carry out a high-intensity military offensive against Russia, let alone of international legal legitimacy, I concluded my analysis with these words: “In reality, Putin has become Macron’s best ally. It serves as a bulwark to wage its class war against the French proletariat, as a scarecrow to justify and legitimize the authoritarian hardening of governance. To ensure France’s militarist and fascist transition.”

While Macron blusters by threatening to send troops to Ukraine to fight big Russian capital, France continues to widely open French borders to Russian companies and to do business with Russia. We remember that the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, declared: “We are going to cause the collapse of the Russian economy” through Western economic sanctions. If there has been an economic collapse, it is that of the French economy.

For a minister determined to torpedo Russia's economy, it is surprising to learn from reliable sources that he is authorizing several companies to continue their trade with Russian companies. The French bourgeoisie is not near hypocrisy. It's not an imposture.

This is the case with the agrochemical factories of the Boréalis group, which has production sites in Austria and Germany, but above all three factories in France: near Rouen, near Melun and in Alsace. Thousands of tonnes of Russian ammonia continue to arrive at Boréalis' French factories, notably that of Rouen. As a reminder, Russia is the world's leading exporter of ammonia, which, curiously, does not seem to be subject to European sanctions packages. Because, according to specialists, this raw material constitutes an important issue for Europe, and therefore for France.

In a recent report, Greenpeace revealed how the French company Framatome, a subsidiary of EDF, and the German company Siemens Energy continue their business with the Russian state nuclear company Rosatom. “France is lobbying fiercely at the European level in order to protect the interests of the nuclear industry and continue its nuclear trade with Rosatom,” underlines Greenpeace.

While, on the diplomatic front, Macron theatrically raises the threat of war against Russia, on the economic front, the real sinews of war, that is to say the valorization of capital, the French company Framatome , peacefully signs a joint venture with the Russian giant Rosatom to manufacture nuclear fuel in Germany. This cooperation between the two giants arouses indignation and protest in Germany. Indeed, the agreement concluded between the French Framatome and the Russian Rosatom fuels controversy in Germany, where the factory is located in which Framatome will assemble, under Russian license, the fuel intended to power nuclear reactors. Thousands of German opponents expressed their anger against this Franco-Russian cooperation, experienced as a betrayal, even a dagger planted in Germany's back by France.

In addition to the agrochemical and nuclear sectors, France and Russia are continuing their economic idyll in the field of wine, particularly that of fine wines. According to exclusive customs documents published by the economic site Challenges, on March 16, 2024, great Burgundy wines were delivered during the years 2022 and 2023 to Moscow, bypassing the European embargo. In economic matters, the credo of the Macron regime is: what matters is the bottle (the State, pseudo-democratic or dictatorial), as long as we have the intoxication (of money)!

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