Moscow continues its destabilization business overseas. Russia estimated, this Wednesday, October 2, that the riots and the police response in Martinique in September and in New Caledonia in the spring demonstrated that France had not completed the “decolonization” of these territories.
“The worsening of social and economic problems, the emergence of acute political crises in the French overseas territories are, obviously, a direct consequence of an unfinished decolonization process,” said the spokesperson. of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova. “This is not the first time in recent times that Paris is not ready for a mutually respectful dialogue with the indigenous population of its overseas territories, preferring to rely on force,” he said. she added, questioned during a weekly briefing on the September violence in Martinique, a French Caribbean island.
Manipulate public opinions
Since it launched an attack on Ukraine to occupy and annex part of its territory, Russia has tried to pose as the defender of the peoples it considers oppressed by the West. It thus successfully launched a diplomatic offensive in French-speaking Africa and supplanted France in the Sahel countries, in particular by deploying its Wagner paramilitary group there.
Russia has also been accused for years by France and other Western countries of trying to manipulate their public opinions by leading disinformation campaigns via its state media and on social networks.