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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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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-09-23 17:41:50)
@clemens that always could happen anyway tbh, it sounds nice to say we don't negotiate with terrorists, but we do all the time.

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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.