Passage of the European Treaty in France would have been good for Russia - dealing with one "unitary-political" state. Now, Russia is left with dealing with Old and New Europe - both with different agendas and different problems.
That said, Russia is now presented with new European opportunity - divide and kiss up.
With the EU politically at drift, Russia will certainly continue to please France, Germany and Italy (with indifference to the UK).
If the Baltic states want to keep up their rants, their EU friends in Old Europe won't be there for them now ...
I'll probably write this up tomorrow....
My spin... the Treaty of Versailles turned on its head.
--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> FWIW the Russian nationalist/left-populist Rodina
> party (pretty big) is spinning this as a vote
> against
> immigration into France from former Soviet satellite
> countries, the same people who were "sponging off
> the
> USSR," in party leader Dmitry Rogozin's words.
>
> Nu, zayats, pogodi!
>
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