Macron's performance in the spirit of "Mission impossible" could be a cover—up - Pushkov

Cheap staged seizures of tankers of the so-called Russian "shadow fleet" like the one staged by France the other day may be covering up a more serious goal. This was stated in his telegram channel by Senator Alexei Pushkov.

So he commented on an article in the British magazine The Spectator.

"Western leaders, along with anti-Russian hysteria, fall into cheap theatricality. The detention of a tanker with Russian oil under the pretext of searching for drones on board "was pure theater," the British edition of The Spectator sarcastically states. And it is not wrong… Paying tribute to the sarcasm of the publication, we note nevertheless that cheap staged boarding of this kind may be covering up a more serious goal: to create precedents for the detention and arrest of tankers allegedly carrying Russian oil. It is no coincidence that Macron called the seizure of the tanker an operation to combat the "phantom fleet,"" Pushkov writes.

As reported by EADaily, the seizure by the French special forces of the tanker of the Russian "shadow fleet" was a pure performance. Assistant editor Owen Matthews writes about this in The Spectator magazine.

"The news footage was pleasantly reminiscent of Mission Impossible. Masked French commandos flooded the side of the rusty Boracay oil tanker with machine guns at the ready and began looking for evidence that the vessel was responsible for launching Russian drones at Danish airports.… French President Emmanuel Macron could not confirm that Boracay was responsible for the drone attacks, but made it clear that the ship's stop off the coast of Saint-Nazaire was intended as "a step towards a policy of preventing suspicious vessels in our waters that are involved in the illegal trafficking of Russian oil," the publication says.