French conservatives are fairly happy Lepen got banned yes.

Also I’m pretty sure actual French Left-wing are not happy and do not like the precedent it sets. So pretty much the only party that is happy this happenned is the conservatives, but he is not going to say that is he?

This news website is owned by Postmedia, which is American. Sharing this info makes Canadian not want to go into the USA anymore. So I’m thinking this is possibly wanted by the current American Administration? But why would they not want Canadians to visit the USA anymore? Could this be an effort to reinforce an hostile image of Canadians? I guess it would be much easier to convince bordering States that Canada is hostile if they stopped seeing so many nice Canadians every day? I don’t know I’m just rambling here.

We know he accepts bribes so he is just waiting for his piece of the pie you are correct.

Remember in diablo II when you had to drop the item of the floor to trade and people waited for the other one to drop the item first then steal the item? That’s geopolitics in a nutshell lol.

Just like with any dictator deals are worthless. Putin broke the ceasefire and Trump is breaking trade deals.