French Election Hijinks, Russia Gives Trump His Safe Zones, and the North Korea

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(SPECIAL NOTICE: Behind the Headlines will broadcast one hour later than usual today.)

Today lightweight Emmanuel Macron enters the ring to do battle with Marine Le Pen in the French presidential elections. By any objective measure, Macron would be laughed off the stage and back into that hole in the Rothschilds' basement he crawled out of. But no, it looks like he's slated to win, thanks to a remarkably biased media campaign and enough foreign meddling to make a neocon blush. Not to mention a conveniently timed "Russian hack attack" that is perhaps too little too late, but which will provide months of material for anti-Russian rhetoric from France's robo-banker non-entity.

In other news, Russia, Iran and Turkey have put together a plan whose implementation could spell the end of the war in Syria. With a little help from Trump on the sidelines, the Astana group has agreed to create four "de-escalation zones" in Syria. Once more, the U.S. played no major role in the negotiations, though Putin did speak to Trump about it over the phone, and Lavrov says they used some of the Americans' ideas. Are things looking better for Russian-US relations, and a coming end to 6-year dirty war in Syria?

Tune in today to Behind the Headlines to find out and hear live coverage of the French election.

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[Joe]

Gonna be a good show tonight!

 

[Eboard10]

Gonna a good show tonight!

Look forward to it!

One of my worries in the event of a Macron win (apart from all that it entails from a political, social and economical perspective for France), is that things are going to get "back to normal" for the average joe, and the war machine will go back in full force with the anti-Russian propaganda as the media seeks another headline to distract the masses. This would make the PTB focus their energy on destabilising the ongoing efforts of Russia, Turkey and Iran to implement the safe zones in Syria.

 

[Joe]

Gonna a good show tonight!

Look forward to it!

One of my worries in the event of a Macron win (apart from all that it entails from a political, social and economical perspective for France), is that things are going to get "back to normal" for the average joe, and the war machine will go back in full force with the anti-Russian propaganda as the media seeks another headline to distract the masses. This would make the PTB focus their energy on destabilising the ongoing efforts of Russia, Turkey and Iran to implement the safe zones in Syria.

True, although things seem to be coming apart at the seams for the PTB. I think they've reached the bottom of their barrel of "give the people some new hopey changey "anti-establishment leader" with Macron. I mean, a lot of French people (and people across the world) are very disenchanted with politicians in general. In the West they've already been subjected to a few "this time it's different" scenarios and nothing changed. So how much more can they take before they finally lose all faith in such 'leaders'? I suspect Macron will be the final nail in the coffin in that respect, at least for French people, although such experiences by one population seem to influence the perspectives of many others.

 

[Jacques]

Gonna a good show tonight!

Indeed, it is going to be another good show.

 

[Meg]

Looking forward to listening to the show. It sounds like it's going to be another good one. :D

 

[Ca.]

Looking forward to listening to the show. It sounds like it's going to be another good one. :D

Definitely, and hope Le Pen makes the finish line.

It'll be good to clear, and hear some of the smoking mirrors behind perhaps one of the most important elections that France faces today.

 

[Eboard10]

True, although things seem to be coming apart at the seams for the PTB. I think they've reached the bottom of their barrel of "give the people some new hopey changey "anti-establishment leader" with Macron. I mean, a lot of French people (and people across the world) are very disenchanted with politicians in general. In the West they've already been subjected to a few "this time it's different" scenarios and nothing changed. So how much more can they take before they finally lose all faith in such 'leaders'? I suspect Macron will be the final nail in the coffin in that respect, at least for French people, although such experiences by one population seem to influence the perspectives of many others.

Hopefully sooner than later, and I guess that for each country it's going to be different.

In Italy, for example, the former prime minister Matteo Renzi (similar to Macron in many ways) who resigned after the constitutional referendum didn't pass has now been re-elected head of his party, the Democratic Party (PD), and is one of the frontrunners in the upcoming presidential elections despite being hated by most of the population when he was in power. The alternative parties also have a big presence but, while they have a larger share of supporters combined, aren't willing to work together to form a coalition. And this is a country that has been disillusioned with politics for decades and yet nothing has really happened to change things.

It almost feels that something major has to happen for things to radically change, such as another financial crisis, and that might take some time.