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Russia Responds To French President's Renewed Attempt To Sell Ships To Moscow
Two months after French president Hollande, under heavy pressure from NATO, decided to scrap a deal to deliver two Mistral helicopter carriers to Russia which were sold to Egypt instead (the same Egypt whose foreign reserves are plummeting, whose fiscal house is in total disarray, which just devalued its currency, and which could only afford the $1.1 billion purchase if the CIA handed its military dictator the cash via envelope), the same French President announced on Wednesday that he "expects to sell new warships to Russia in the near future."
Quoted by AP during a visit to the shipyard of Saint-Nazaire in western France, Hollande said that "Things went well with Russia, which has agreed to cancel the contract. And I even think we'll get partnerships for new ships." He didn't specify whether they could be military ships. More from AP:
Hollande came aboard one of the warships that was originally named the Vladivostok, in reference to the Russian port. The inscription on the hull has been erased and replaced by grey paint.
The Mistral sale was supposed to be the biggest arms sale ever by a NATO country to Russia, until the deal fell apart because of the Ukraine crisis. France refunded the 950 million euros ($1 billion) already paid by Russia and sold the ships to Egypt, which signed a 950 million-euro contract last week.
"I had to sell them to a country that needed to ensure its own security but didn't threaten anyone," Hollande said.
The assault ships can each carry 16 helicopter gunships, 700 troops and up to 50 armored vehicles. They are due to be delivered to Egyptian authorities in March 2016.
The ships are supposed to arrive in Egypt in summer 2016 but first they should be de-equipped of Russian-developed command, control and communication systems.
Russia promptly responded with the following simple and brief message:
Paris is looking to sell new ships to Russia, France's President Francois Hollande said during his visit to the Saint-Nazaire shipyard. The president, however, neglected to mention whether Russia is actually eager to purchase such hardware from France.
Or, as it summarized all of the above: "Sale away."
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If Russia didn't buy them then, someone that is supposed to kick Russian asses did. Whoever did pay for em hates russian scums.
When you are cynical in only one direction, against the authorities of one nation or alliance, you are not cynical at all, but merely a chained dog in another yard, barking at passers by while begging for treats from your captor.
Yep Im all done trusting anybody blindly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5MAg_yWsq8
Hollande is another corporate whore, champagne socialist...
Classiest understatement of the year!
Gosh... I need to make a trip to Russia!
More oatmeal
Carriers are out, like battle ships for the exact same reasons
a) hollangay lost 1 billion and several billions france could obtain
b) as a result india cancelled 12B$ deal with france
c) french unemployment soars to highest hish ever seen (not direct result of cancellation)
d) egypy cant use the ships because of lack of russian equipment, which wasnt installed yet
e) egypt cant afford this ships nor their maintainment, give french taxmoney to egypt to pay for own ships
There actually is a possibility that Russia would buy ships from France. Of course some serious change would have to occur for that to happen.
Let's say that next election Marine Le Pen win and then takes France out of the EU as well as NATO.
She could easily establish a good relationship with Putin.
Both of them are nationalists, which in today's world is a dirty word to the political power brokers.
However, it is a word that describes someone whose interest is their own nation first. 2 of such people can understand each other much better than some internationalists that really only care about themselves.
Putin can tell france to go to hell and build it internally.
https://www.google.com/search?q=abandoned+soviet+ships&biw=1274&bih=640&...
This was a statement of intent to construct ships for Russia in the future but which was designed for dometic consumption by the French electorate.
And to graciously save Hollande from an hysterical French reaction, Russia graciously did not respond in the style of Rodney Dangerfield.
Saudi Arabia providing sub-prime warship financing to Egypt for Mistrals.
http://www.france24.com/en/20150807-france-mistral-warship-egypt-saudi-a...
Bullish!
question would it not be better to build a submersible aircraft carrier? or even a submersible version to the mistral, that would be a threat a submarine and an aerial strike force rolled into one.
I suspect that this ex-Frenchman will not be buying anything in France for a while...
He may have a problem with buying anything American, too.
Seems like Hollande's ship business is up a creek without a paddle.
If Hollande will sell ships to Russia and guarantee Russia
a substantial profit when Hollande refuses to deliver,
Putin may take it under consideration.
Au revoir, Monsieur Hollande.
I'm sure Madame Le Pen will turn things around for FRA. Arms deals with RUS probably won't be revived; but that's Life.
Hollande & other euroPeon heads of states are only parrots & poodles of Pirate captain America.
France sold defence equipments, missiles to Argentina and the , during Falklands war, disclosed electronic codes to Britain , as a result , Britain could win.
Risky partner
I never imagined that The End Of The World -at least for the Zio-Thugs - would be so hilarious!
Where does Egypt get the money to buy military hardware?
One guess should be enough.