All right, Alexander, let's talk about the sentencing, the verdict of Marine Le Pen in France.

The verdict is guilty of embezzlement, and the sentencing, I believe, is five, let's see,

Le Pen was fined, $100,000 euros and sentenced to four years in prison, two of which were suspended.

The judges did not rule that those penalties take immediate effect so they could be delayed by a possible appeal.

She's going from what I understand.

She'll have to wear a bracelet, so she's not going to go to prison.

And then you have the five-year ban from politics.

So that's it for Le Pen as far as politics is concerned.

And that goes into effect right away. I believe

I got the sentencing correct. Your thoughts? Well, I'm going to say straightforwardly another

example of using law fair to knock out a political opponent. Macron is politically discredited in France. The centre in

France is politically discredited. The left is all over the place and parts of it are unacceptable

to the French elite. All of the indications pointed to a Le Pen victory in

2027. They don't have an alternative candidate to put up against her. They can't accept Le Pen

as president of France because if she were to become president of France, she might actually

start to undertake some real changes in the way that France

is run domestically. And horror of horrors, she might also try to fix relations with Russia,

which is completely unacceptable to the French elite. She might also start to pursue a more sovereign-ist policy

with respect to the EU. So you find some charge or rather, you bring a case against her.

The French judiciary are known to be overwhelmingly hostile to her, which they are, by the way.

I can tell you this for a fact.

I know quite a lot about the French judiciary and the French legal system.

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