have training some of them are but training. what could they have really done? with the putin on the brink quite a good headline. rush on the brink to. on the brink of what? i think we need to turn the ukraine. and ukrainians in the middle of a very fairly difficult summer offensive chirac big gains. territory clawed back from russia and russia but one of the names of the offensive is destruction, is really to upset the russians and extraordinary thing happened behind the scenes, in the leadership, in that as a colic. i m surprised it really hasn t come up too strongly in the here. much lee for a psychological war the cranes haven t done too brightly over the past weekend, in fact, because the upset, the
nicolas sarkozy must wear an ankle bracelet for a year after he lost the conviction against vice president chirac. let s go to israel where bibi netanyahu is on trial for corruption charges even as he currently serve as prime minister and his predecessor served 16 months in prison for accepting bribes and obstructing justice. in south korea, former president pac geun-hye served five years in prison for corruption charges. and just this week, silvio berlusconi passed away at the age of 86 and he, too, had brushes with the law and was investigated a lot and ended up with one conviction for tax fraud in 2013, and, guess what donald trump wasn t even the only former government leader to be arrested this week. meet nicola sturgeon, the former first minister of scotland, an she was arrested for financial misconduct and though she was later released without being charged ending further investigation.
A year ago, French President Jacques Chirac set out the core of a new strategic vision that would exclude the United States in favor of a European realignment with China.
Throughout an exceptionally long political career, Jacques Chirac, who died Thursday at 86, personified the paradoxes of a country passing from one century to another.