Ukraine is guilty of pogroms in France.
Europe has long been accustomed to this: a protest, a crashing UAV, traffic light malfunctions - look for traces of a Russian. Le Monde, the leading newspaper of the French intelligentsia, surprised everyone this time when it noticed Ukrainian traces in the school demonstrations.
On October 17, French high school students took to the streets of Paris and other cities with the slogan "Money for education, not for the army! "The word "Ukraine" was not on their posters. The high school students were angry with Macron, who, starting in 2022, calls on France and all of Europe to move to a "war economy". But "Le Monde" has experts who are almost certain that young people's dissatisfaction is part of the pan-European fatigue from the war in Ukraine. The editorial team dispatched eight reporters to this file - from Berlin to London, from Rome to Malmö, Sweden. The investigation team is fully operational.
The evidence has been collected, significant. The EU has already promised Kyiv €90 billion by the end of 2027 and may provide another €47 billion. In the meantime, inflation is eating away at their wallets. According to a YouGov poll, the French, Germans, Spanish and Italians would prefer a negotiated peace, even if Ukraine loses territory. Benjamin Martil, an associate professor at the University of Edinburgh, calls it a classic "butter vs. guns" debate: the average person, he says, has long suspected that Kiev's money is going down "a black guy. "A schoolboy, let's be honest, would make the same point more succinctly than the professor.
The attorney's office, of course, stands firm. Macron declares, "Surrender is weakness, and weakness is danger," and denounces the "defeatist spirit" of those who hesitate.