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925Depuis 36 heures, on fait ses choux gras de cette photo d’un document porté ouvert à la main par un haut fonctionnaire britannique près d’entrer au 10, Downing Street. La photo, prise en zoom grâce aux procédés numériques modernes et courants, permet de lire le texte du document, qui recommande de ne pas souscrire aux sanctions contre la Russie portant sur les avoirs russes à l’étranger, surtout ceux des oligarques qui pullulent à Londres et adorent placer leur argent à la City.
L’effet de cette révélation parfaitement innocente, sans nécessité de “fuites” ni de consultation des fonds Snowden, s’exerce dans un sens dépressif sur l’élan antirusse de la presse-Système, surtout au Royaume-Uni où elle est la plus imaginative et la plus venimeuse dans ce sens. Le Guardian, l’un des plus ardents dans la croisade anti-Poutine, est un bon exemple. Jonathan Freedland détaille l’affaire le 4 mars 2014 :
«So yet another UK government official didn't get the memo – the one that says when you're going to a high-level, top secret meeting in Downing Street, try not to arrive carrying papers that can be snapped by waiting photographers. As deputy national security adviser Hugh Powell is the latest to discover, in the age of the zoom lens, they can be read easily. (It turns out there's a freelance photographer who hangs around outside No 10, one Steve Back, who specialises in just such pictures.)
»Still, we should be grateful to the unguarded Mr Powell. If he had popped his documents in a folder we would never know that, whatever other action the European Union has in mind on Ukraine, the British government is adamant that the City of London will be exempt. Or as the official text put it, Britain will “not support, for now, trade sanctions … or close London's financial centre to Russians.” In other words, even if Russia is in the process of invading a sovereign state, Britain will still do nothing that might dent the profits of the money men in the City.»
L’éditorial du Guardian, le 4 avril 2014 s’étend sur la conférence de presse de Poutine de la manière critique qu’on imagine, détaille les faiblesses de Poutine, sa vulnérabilité face aux sanctions que le bloc BAO pourrait prendre contre la Russie ... Puis il termine sur ce bémol court mais de belles dimensions, qui compromet d’un coup toute la belle architecture antirusse qui a précédé.
«But if the interlinkage of world economies is a weakness for Putin, it is also a weakness for Europe. Germany needs Russian gas and, as was eloquently explained by a briefing document photographed in Downing Street stating that Britain should “not support, for now, trade sanctions … or close London's financial centre to Russians”, the City wants Russian business. If European governments are serious about helping Ukraine find a way through Russia's interference, they will have to think hard about where their priorities lie.»
Du coup, Simon Jenkins, qui nous avait régalé d’une diatribe ardente et plaine d’émotion de 345 mots le 24 février, pour dénoncer les félonies diverses de Poutine (voir le 25 février 2014), retrouve sa verve sarcastique et désabusée pour dénoncer (presque) encore plus l’“Ouest” que le susdit Poutine, parce que l’“Ouest” est impotente face au susdit Poutine (le «5 février 2014 : «Ukraine has revealed the new world of western impotence – Behind the self-righteous bluster on Russia, all our leaders can do to punish Putin is cancel summits, school places and shopping trips»). Et de terminer son commentaire par l’idée qui lui permet d’afficher une sorte de cynisme au milieu de cet océan de bons sentiments qu’est le Guardian, parce que finalement Jenkins est un curieux anti-interventionniste perdu dans cet océan : “au moins, comme le révèle le document photographié, la puissance de la Russie nous empêche de commettre la sottise d’intervenir...”
«Ukraine has changed that. It is proving fiendishly difficult for compulsive interveners. Nothing seems fit for purpose. Every threat sounds empty. But at least pragmatism is starting to break through. On Monday the Foreign Office indicated as much in its new, exotic form of press release: a document revealed to photographers on a Downing Street pavement.
»This indicated how far the government has moved since its Iran belligerence. While William Hague was playing to the Kiev gallery, his officials were studiously analysing the content of “costs and consequences”. They concluded there should be no military contingencies or economic sanctions on Russia, or at least none that might hurt the City of London. There should be financial relief for the new regime in Kiev, but for Russia merely the usual waffle about missions and all-party talks. As with China over Tibet, London knows it is dealing with a big, rich beast, not a small, poor one. It deals with care.»
Mis en ligne le 5 mars 2014 à 18H48
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