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Clemens@clemens@mathstodon.xyz
Logician/computer scientist living and working in Scotland.
Joined: 2026-09-23 16:35:20
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Clemens@clemens@mathstodon.xyz (2026-09-23 17:59:00)
@sun those deals are usually not that public precisely for that reason. There are also several additional dimensions to this: we are not talking about French sanctions, but EU sanctions, which should certainly not be on the table for grubby French (or other) deals. In fact, as far as I remember the French wanted to get the sanctions only for Usmanov lifted and then Luxembourg insisted on Fridman for their own reasons. If countries start to lift Russian sanctions for their own national short-term interest, sanctions will be gone in no time. Again, the French gov knows this, what I am sayng is basically the French position until about a couple of weeks ago, so claiming all changed because some French spies were arrested is highly dodgy.
Reply to @sun@shitposter.world
Clemens@clemens@mathstodon.xyz (2026-09-23 17:38:50)
@sun I don't respect to get explanations that aren't any. If the official line is the explanation then I expect many more French and EU citizens to be taken hostage from now on 🤷
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Clemens@clemens@mathstodon.xyz (2026-09-23 17:29:28)
@sun "a couple of billionaires" - one of them used to be the richest Russian. Given how big and public that "favour" to the Russians is, the explanation of "some spies" in Azerbaijan (confusingly not Uzbekistan) doesn't cut it.
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Clemens@clemens@mathstodon.xyz (2026-09-23 17:03:52)
@sun Ok: who are those prisoners? (ignoring the fact that "exchange" clearly doesn't work to describe what's happening because those oligarchs weren't prisoners)
Also: as some kind of response to blackmail (of the kind: "we have your guys - lift the sanctions or else") seems deeply flawed because now the Russians know that if they want to get something they just have to arrest a couple of Frenchmen.
Clemens@clemens@mathstodon.xyz (2026-09-23 16:07:17)
The EU lifting sanctions against Russian oligarchs because of France and Luxembourg should receive far more public interest: even if you don't care about Ukraine you should ask why on earth Macron et al publicly humiliated themselves? What blackmail do the Russians have? Or is it "just" corruption?