France Takes "Independent Decisions" on Mistral Deliveries: Prime Minister
France takes "decisions independently" over the delivery of the Mistral-class helicopter carriers, the country's Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, has announced. ● "I have already had the occasion to say that at the current stage, today, the conditions have not been met for the delivery of the Mistral [ship] to Russia," [baloney] Valls said at a press conference Friday, as quoted by AFP. The prime minister added that France makes Mistral-related decisions in a sovereign manner, "without anyone dictating its conduct from outside" [i.e. the United States]. [That's a blatant lie, of course.]