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Truck

Biden finalizes crackdown on gas cars, forcing more than half of new car sales to be electric by 2030

Regan  Biden
© Getty ImagesPresident Biden, left, and Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan.
The Biden administration has finalized a slate of highly-anticipated environmental regulations curbing gas-powered vehicle tailpipe emissions as part of its broader efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat global warming.

In a joint announcement Wednesday, the White House and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled the most aggressive multi-pollutant emission standards ever finalized. While the regulations target gas-powered vehicles, they are explicitly designed to push wider nationwide adoption of electric vehicles (EV) and, according to officials, are expected to ensure nearly 70% of all new car sales are zero-emissions within a few years.

"President Biden is investing in America, in our workers, and in the unions that built our middle class and established the U.S. auto sector as a leader in the world," White House national climate adviser Ali Zaidi said in a statement. "The President's agenda is working."


Comment: This is a PR statement, not a statement of fact.


"With transportation as the largest source of U.S. climate emissions, these strongest-ever pollution standards for cars solidify America's leadership in building a clean transportation future and creating good-paying American jobs, all while advancing President Biden's historic climate agenda," added EPA administrator Michael Regan.

Putin

Washington lives in denial over Putin's victory while gaming its own elections

Joe Biden
© Chip Somodevilla / Getty ImagesUS President Joe Biden.
America's legacy media and political ruling class have thrown a predictably massive hissy fit over last weekend's Russian election, insisting that President Vladimir Putin's landslide victory was "preordained" and "stage-managed."

Every protest and anti-Putin statement before, during, and after the election was amplified. Every allegation of misconduct was reported with zero scrutiny or skepticism. Washington and its allies decried the results, arguing that the vote wasn't free or fair. UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron went so far as to call it "illegal."

The pearl-clutching over Russia's vote was the most intense I've ever seen over a foreign election. It was so inordinate, in fact, that it reminded me of the nonstop media coverage last month after Russian political activist Alexey Navalny died in a Siberian penal colony. The same media that showed no concern over the death of US journalist Gonzalo Lira in a Ukrainian jail - after he had been tortured, at American taxpayer expense, for daring to criticize the Kiev regime - huffed and puffed for weeks about the death of a Russian citizen in a Russian prison.

Lost in all the hysteria over Putin's victory is the fact that most of the Russian people like their president. The incumbent won over 87% of the votes, and as even CNN begrudgingly acknowledged before the election, a poll last month showed that Putin had an 86% approval rating. That compares with a 9% approval rating for Navalny, the great Western hope for destabilizing Russia, in a January 2023 poll. And by the way, it also compares with US President Joe Biden's approval rating of around 38%.

Attention

Columbo investigates the Crocus City Hall shooting

Columbo
© The Reading Junkie / An American tourist in Russia
Oh Mr. Blinken, so sorry to intrude, I know you're a very busy man, I just have to tie up some loose ends. It's probably nothing, but you know me and my loose ends. They just bother me like an itch that needs to be scratched. My wife pokes fun at me about it all the time...
Blinken Idiot and Columbo
© The Reading Junkie / An American tourist in Russia
-Oh, just one more thing, Mr. Blinken sir.

-What now, Columbo?

-Oh, it's probably nothing. But two hours after the attack your office blamed ISIS-K.

-Yes and that was correct. Even ISIS said it. And the shooters were Tajik. What is your point?

-Yes sir, but ISIS only took credit, they did not say which branch. How could you possibly know they were Tajiks from ISIS-K before even the Russians knew?

Typewriter

Best of the Web: How the Western media helped build the case for genocide in Gaza

gaza city ruins bombing wasteland
© UNRWAIsrael has reduced Gaza to a wasteland.
The past five months have been clarifying. What was supposed to be hidden has been thrust into the light. What was supposed to be obscured has come sharply into focus.

Liberal democracy is not what it seems.

It has always defined itself in contrast to what it says it is not. Where other regimes are savage, it is humanitarian. Where others are authoritarian, it is open and tolerant. Where others are criminal, it is law-abiding. When others are belligerent, it seeks peace. Or so the manuals of liberal democracy argue.

But how to keep the faith when the world's leading liberal democracies - invariably referred to as "the West" - are complicit in the crime of crimes: genocide?

Cult

Terrorist attack in Moscow — who is really responsible?

Crocus City Mall moscow theater terrorist attack
© AFP via Getty ImagesEmergency services vehicles are seen outside the burning Crocus City Hall concert hall following the shooting incident in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on March 22, 2024.
On the "Usual Suspects" list we have Ukraine and we have ISIS. A good case can be made for both. I am posting three videos — some of it is repetitive — that discusses the attack and the very odd behavior of the Biden Administration. Let's go through the chronology of events.

On March 7 US Embassy Moscow issued the following alert:
The Embassy is monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts, and U.S. citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours.
What you need to understand is that this warning was not issued at the discretion of the embassy. This was approved in Washington, DC at Main State and would have required some intelligence that was deemed somewhat specific and "credible." When I was doing this job at State Counter Terrorism in 1990, this was in the aftermath of the bombing of Pan, 103. It was widely believed in the public that state department, and the CIA had information in advance about the terrorist bombing of that plane, and warned our person out not to get on board. That was not true but it did raise the issue of when, and how to warn the public about a potential threat. We came up with a system that required specific and credible intelligence. The more specific and credible the intelligence, the less need to warn the public. Consider, for example, that if we knew a terrorist attack was going to be carried out on Friday at a public concert hall by a particular group, we would be able to alert appropriate authorities and take precautions to intercept the attack without alarming the public.

Cruise Missle

Ukraine reports large-scale power outages across the country after Russian airstrikes

the Dnieper Hydro Power Plant Zaporozhye Region
© Ukraine Prosecutor Office/Telegramthe Dnieper Hydro Power Plant in the Kiev-controlled part of Zaporozhye Region was damaged in a massive Russian airstrike March 22, 2024
One attack severely damaged the Dnieper Hydro Power Plant in the Kiev-controlled part of Zaporozhye Region, local officials say

The Russian military has launched a powerful wave of air and missile strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure overnight, officials in Kiev have claimed. The Defense Ministry in Moscow has yet to comment on the assertions.

Reports on the ground described it as the most powerful attack for many months. One Russian missile strike targeted the Dnieper Hydro Power Plant (HPP) in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporozhye, according to Ukrhydroenergo. The company stated that the facility had been hit and that a fire was raging at the site.

Comment: Looks like Russia is finally taken the gloves off. Notice though, the strikes are aimed at crippling military infrastructure, as Ukraine moves most of its armaments by electric train. An though this strikes will impose hardships on the common people, they've been made at the start of the warmer season, as oppose to the dead of a Ukrainian winter.


Russian Flag

Only Hypocrites Call Putin's Victory a Fraud

Vladimir Putin
© Photo: Public domain
Any president who serves the interests of the majority of his people and protects the nation from foreign interference will naturally be chosen to remain in power.

The main Western newspapers already had articles prepared in advance about Putin's victory in the Russian elections. With the confirmation of this victory, they just took them out of the drawer and published the barbarities that we already know.

"Orchestrated election", accuses the New York Times. The Washington Post calls the election a "farce." CNN, of "stage-managed election devoid of credible opposition". BBC and The Guardian present the allegations of Golos, an NGO accused by the Russian government of being a "foreign agent" due to its links with European organizations.

This NGO says the elections were not clean because "a significant proportion of Russian society was not represented by any presidential candidate."

But participation in these elections was the highest in Russian history, with 77.44% turnout among voters eligible to vote. This means that less than 23% of voters did not vote.

Comment: Much work awaits the Russian President during his coming term, considering that Russia is at war - Kremlin, Russia now in 'state of war' due to West's entry into Ukraine conflict - Peskov and West wants war with Russia - Dutch journalist to RT

See also:
Putin addresses nation after election: Result proves Russia is 'one big tight-knot family'
'People Are The Power in Russia' Says Putin as he Wins Fifth Term With Record 87% of Votes


USA

Biden's suspension of LNG exports challenged by 16 states

gas tanker ship
© Getty Images / IMAGO/Jens KoehlerFILE
Texas, Louisiana and more than a dozen other US states challenged the Biden administration's suspension of new licenses to export natural gas via ocean-going tankers.

A lawsuit filed against President Joe Biden and the US Department of Energy in Louisiana federal court on Thursday asks a judge to overturn the temporary pause. The action supported by 16 state attorneys general, argues the administration runs counter to Congressional intent and decades of policy.

"The ban will drive billions of dollars in investment away from Texas, hinder our ability to maximize revenue for public schools, force Texas producers to flare excess natural gas instead of taking it to market, and annihilate critical jobs," Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote in a statement.


Comment: Considering the challenges that Texas poses to the deep state's agenda, that's at least part of the reason they're doing it.


Comment: It seems that another reason for the restriction of exports is to further cripple Europe's economy, which is now heavily reliant on US LNG: US reconsidering its gas exports, threatening critical deliveries to LNG dependent Europe - CNN


Black Magic

EU to bypass treaty ban on buying lethal weapons for Ukraine, 'most significant shift in policy since start of war' - FT

drone operator Ukraine
© AFP / Sergey BobokA Ukrainian operator uses a drone equipped with a metal detector to clear mines in Kharkov Region, Ukraine, October 1, 2023. Brussels proposes 'legal task force' to explore ways to use the common budget for defence. EU member states agreed in 2022 to finance weapons shipments to Ukraine, but only through a multilateral fund set up outside the EU budget.
Brussels is actively exploring how to work around an EU treaty clause prohibiting arms purchases from the union's budget, as it steps up efforts to increase financing for defence and Ukraine.

The European Commission, the bloc's executive, has proposed that a legal task force revisit a crucial provision — known as Article 41(2) — that stops the EU common budget from funding "operations having military or defence implications", according to four people familiar with the discussions.

Any move to use the budget to purchase lethal weapons would mark the most significant shift in Brussels' defence policy since the start of the war against Ukraine.


Comment: As the terrorist attack in Russia demonstrates, an escalation has evidently been in the making.


Map

France will likely seek to secure Ukraine's Black Sea coast if it conventionally intervenes

Odessa
Romania and Moldova, where France already has troops and just signed a security pact that might soon lead to the same, could easily serve as its launchpad Odessa.

Russian foreign spy chief Naryshkin warned on Tuesday that France is preparing to send 2,000 troops to Ukraine following Macron's claim last month that a conventional NATO intervention can't be ruled out. This statement also coincided with France's top general confirming that his forces are ready to deploy wherever they might be needed, which discredited the Defense Ministry's description of Naryshkin's warning as "disinformation" since there's some objectively existing truth to what he said.

While many members of the Alt-Media Community mocked Macron's claim last month, a prestigious Russian expert just lent credence to it in an interview with Sputnik. Alexander Mikhailov, who's the head of the Bureau of Military-Political Analysis think tank in Russia, told that outlet on Tuesday that "Macron undoubtedly has access to both the personnel and the resources to send troops to Ukraine." It's therefore not implausible to imagine that France might conventionally intervene there.

Comment: Below there are a number of comments, 1) - 6) which together give some background in case the situation around Odessa develops.

1) Articles related to the same story:

From Sputnik International:
France Preparing to Deploy Military Contingent in Ukraine: Russian Foreign Intel Chief
14:26 GMT 19.03.2024 (Updated: 14:50 GMT 19.03.2024)
[...]
France is preparing to deploy a contingent of troops in Ukraine, with the first echelon to include about 2,000 soldiers, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) chief Sergei Naryshkin has announced.

"The country's current leadership does not care about the death of ordinary Frenchmen and the concerns of the country's generals. According to information received by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, a contingent of troops is already being prepared to be sent to Ukraine. At the initial stage, it will number about 2,000 people," Naryshkin said in a statement Tuesday.

According to the SVR head's information, France's generals are concerned about the difficulty of transferring such a large force to Ukraine and stationing it there unnoticed. Naryshkin warned that any French forces arriving in Ukraine "will become a legitimate priority target" for Russia's military, with the same fate to await them as has already befallen those who fell during previous instances of French aggression against Moscow.
From RT, 19 Mar, 2024 17:29:
French army 'ready for war' - top general
Paris is prepared to fight the "toughest" battles to protect its interests, the chief of staff has declared

France is ready to face whatever developments unfold internationally and is prepared for the "toughest engagements" to protect itself, the chief of staff of the French Army, Gen. Pierre Schill, said in an interview published on Tuesday.

In recent weeks, French President Emmanuel Macron has repeatedly refused to rule out Western troops being sent to Ukraine at some point to help Kiev in its fight against Moscow, which he described as an "adversary" of Paris.

France's forces are "ready," Schill told Le Monde, stressing that "whatever the developments in the international situation, the French can be convinced: their soldiers will respond."

Schill said France has "international responsibilities" and is linked by defense agreements to "states exposed to major threats," and must therefore have its forces trained and interoperable with allied armies.

He added that nuclear deterrence "is not a universal guarantee" because it does not guard against conflicts that would remain "below the threshold of vital interests." Schill said that the Army must show itself a credible force through responsiveness in terms of force projection and the ability to carry out operations of increased scope.

The general said that France currently has the capacity to commit a division of around 20,000 men within 30 days and has the means to command an army corps of up to 60,000 which includes allied divisions.

In an interview with the TF1 and France 2 channels last week, President Macron said that France is "not waging war on Russia" by supporting Kiev, but labeled Russia an "adversary" and has stood by his remarks that a potential deployment of NATO troops to the country could not be "excluded."

His statements drew a wave of denials from most of France's fellow NATO members and officials - including Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg - about having any intention to deploy their forces to Ukraine.

At the same time, Spain's El Pais reported on Monday that the US-led bloc has already been involved "in virtually every possible aspect" of the conflict and that active and former military personnel from NATO states have been operating in the country overseeing Kiev's use of Western-supplied weapons.
In the article, the suggestion is that France will send troops to Odessa. That is not what the following article says, but notice the connection to Odessa, and of course one deployment area does not exclude the other.

From RT, 20 Mar, 2024 17:21
France considering Ukraine military deployment - Odessa MP
Troops may be sent to the regions bordering Belarus in order to free up Kiev's units to be sent to the front

France is preparing to send troops to Ukraine, Aleksey Goncharenko, a senior Ukrainian MP, wrote on his Telegram channel on Wednesday. The official is currently in France for a meeting of the committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

According to Goncharenko, who represents the city of Odessa in the Ukrainian parliament, Paris is considering deploying a military force to the Ukrainian regions bordering Belarus, discussions about which "are proceeding effectively."

"I'm in contact with my French colleagues. And I can already say that everything is serious... There is talk about a deployment of European soldiers to the border with Belarus, [a mission] that will free the Ukrainian military stationed there and allow it to move to other directions. This will help strengthen our eastern and southern fronts," Goncharenko wrote.
2) Odessa has been visited several times by a well know French person, Bernard-Henri Levi
From Komsomolskaya Pravda there was an opinion piece on March 15, 2022 The Messenger of Evil is walking around Odessa - a French apologist for war and "color revolutions"
He comes to the weak to make them worthless, destroy them, initiate murders and then justify them. On strong ones, he can only yap from places that are relatively safe for himself.

Run, Odessa residents, run. Or drive him away, if you have the strength and desire to do so.
There is little to fear in Odessa, many have since then been rounded up in mobilization drives and sent off to the trenches. That said, the charges above are serious; in comment 3) there are more details about activism.

From the blog or website Topwar: The ideologist of the destruction of Libya and Yugoslavia Bernard-Henri Levy appeared in Odessa March 15 2022
Bernard-Henri Levy came to the Euromaidan, where he promised the Ukrainian people to turn the country into a "new Libya". As you can see, the philosopher turned out to be a serious person and kept his promise... Apparently, in order to check whether everything was going according to plan, he came to Odessa at the height of the military operation of Russian troops in Ukraine.
From the Jewish Chronicle published March 17, 2022: We need no-fly zone now, Bernard-Henri Lévy tells JC from Odessa
Why did you decide to go to Odessa?

Why Odessa? Because I knew the city in times of peace. I have some friends there. I performed my monologue about Europe on the stage of the opera house. And it broke my heart to know that such a war was going on there. I wanted to show solidarity. And I wanted to bear witness. This conflict is so absurd! So meaningless! How can this paranoid Putin speak of denazifying one of the most brilliant cities, in the entire world, shaped by Jewish spirit and culture?
On the topic of Odessa and Jewish history, see other external links:

Laura Janner-Klausner (Wiki) has a blog on Jewish News/timesofisrael.com where she wrote this article:
Why Odessa is a wonder of the modern Jewish world which begins:
These days it isn't an obvious destination, but if I were to write a Jewish equivalent of 100 places to see before you die, Odessa would be among the highlights.
The Jewish Virtual Library has an article on Odessa
Beginnings of the Community

The Russians found six Jews when they took the fortress of Khadzhi-Bei in 1789; the oldest Jewish tombstone in the cemetery dates from 1793. Five Jews were among those who in 1794 received plots for the erection of houses and shops and the planting of gardens. The Gemilut Ḥesed Shel Emet society (ḥevra kaddisha) was founded in 1795. In 1796 Jews participated in the administration of the town. The kahal (community administration) was already in existence in 1798 when the first synagogue was built; the first rabbi to hold office, in 1809, was Isaac Rabinovich of Bendery.

Growth of the Jewish Population

There were 246 Jews (out of a total population of 2,349) in 1795, 6,950 (out of 41,700) in 1831, 51,378 (out of 193,513) in 1873, 138,935 (out of 403,815) in 1897. During the Soviet period, the Jewish population continued to grow: in 1926, 153,243 (of a total population of 420,862), and 200,981 in 1939 (out of 604,217). It was then the second largest Jewish population in Ukraine, after Kiev. After World War II 108,900 Jews lived in Odesa (12.1% of the total) in 1959, and 86,000 (8.4% of the total) in 1979.
JGuideEurope - Cultural Guide to European Jewry has an informative article in about Odessa in their series Ukraine / From Kiev to the Black Sea
The "Gate to Zion"

Historian Steven Zipperstein notes that the history of Odessa's Jewish community is closer to the one of San Francisco than the one of Kiev. In this port city, the Jews lived without the constraints and limitations of the Russian Empire. They were not isolated and were an active part of the city's life. The language barrier didn't apply as well. However, at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the tolerant and multicultural Odessa was nicknamed "Gate to Zion". Indeed, it became one of the centers of the zionist movement, and the city where thousands of Jews left to Palestine.

The center of the zionist activity was the Palestine Committee 12 Nechypurenka Lane, Odessa, Ukraine">"Palestine Committee". This organization helped the relocation of farm workers and craftsmen in Palestine. The committee was initiated in the 1880s by Lev Pinsker, Ahad Haam, Bialik, Klauzner, or Ben Ami were also part of the board. The members also raised funds to buy lands in Palestine. The land were the Hebraic University of Jerusalem was built was purchased by the committee. This is why Lev Pinsker was displaced there in 1934.

One of the most active members of this committee, Meir Dizengoff, was the first mayor of Tel Aviv. This is merely a coincidence. In some respect, Tel Aviv was built in Odessa. Lilienblum, one the yishuv first journalist, wrote that in Odessa, Jews arrived to the shores of the black sea, built a city and developed a port. If they were able to to that in Odessa, they would achieve their goal on the shores of the Mediterranean as well.

Another center of the zionist activity was the Brodsky synagogue. Around 70 houses were built through fund raising executed by the synagogue. Those buildings were the first of the future city of Nes Ziona.

To properly prepare the future emigrants, an Hebrew-only school was opened in 1903. In the same time, the publishing house Moria published school books in Hebrew and sends them to Tel Aviv.

From 1919 to 1927, the boat Ruslan shipped a numerous part of the Odessa intelligentsia to Palestine. Among them, lots were about to become the leaders of the future Israel.
Given the above background, might explain Bernard-Henri Lévy is fond of Odessa, but he has also visited the town more recently. From the Chabad.org July 17, 2023 French Intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy Wraps Tefillin in Odessa, Ukraine
On a recent visit to Southern Ukraine, French Jewish philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy toured Chabad-Lubavitch of Odessa's institutions, including the Mishpacha Children's Home, directed by Rabbi Avraham and Chaya Wolff.
To explain why the authors at Komsomolskaya Pravda and Topwar are unhappy with Bernard-Henri Levy, below are a few more details, as it turns out his actions many times have reflected quite well what happens or might happen later.

3) Comments on Bernard-Henri Levy and the possible motivations of the France to get more involved in Ukraine, excerpts from older articles on SOTT.net
The thinking over the last ten years of Bernard-Henri Levy on the topic of Ukraine might go a long way to understand the motives of France. One could have followed other people, and perhaps reveal a similar pattern, but in his case it is particularly evident, as a few snips, from previous SOTT articles reveal.

In the first article excerpt, the writer after describing the activism of Levy/Levi notes: "But I'm glad to see one more proof of the fact that the French are reasonable people." and gives an example. This is worth keeping in mind also when reading the other excerpts, since many people in France do not support the idea of sending French soldiers to Ukraine, or share all that many of the views of Bernard-Henri Levy, but this is an attempt to understand the part of the population that do or would support the latest moves.

"Manufacturing Consent": Bernard-Henri Lévy, the "new philosopher" selling military adventures of the global elite (15 Feb 2014)
Zealous French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levi visited the maidan in Kiev on February 9 to deliver another fiery harangue. The next day the article Bernard-Henri Levi: We're all Ukrainians (Bernard-Henri Lévy: «Nous sommes tous des Ukrainiens») saw light published by Parisian Le Monde. In his fervor Ukrainian Levi he called Yulia Timoshenko the Dame of Kiev (meaning Yulia Timoshenko who is behind bars at present). I can hardly imagine what Oleh Tyahnybok, another passionate maidan supporter, or Victor Yanukovych thought having heard these bold words spoken by someone born to an Algerian Jewish family. But I'm glad to see one more proof of the fact that the French are reasonable people. The article of «new Ukrainian» was followed by many virulent comments like «We've been Libyans, now we are Ukrainians. Could we just be French, is it so hard?»

Yes, it is hard in the case of Bernard Henri-Levi. He's kind of a human brand. For Europeans he has been a patented stimulant for dozens of years. 65 years old, he has shot a few films and published around twenty books, he became famous as a leader of the «New Philosophers» (Nouveaux Philosophes) movement that reached the peak of popularity in France in the last century, but went out of fashion as any intellectual product which offers nothing but extravagance. He owes his popularity to the fact that Levi is seen as a man of Messiah in some circles.

...Levi saw his first hot spot in 1971 as he travelled to East Pakistan to cover the war for separation of would-be Bangladesh from Pakistan. He has seen many flash points afterwards. In 1981 he made a trip to Afghanistan to meet the mujahedeen fighting the Soviet Army. In 1999 he ardently called for bombing Yugoslavia. In 2001 he supported the US intervention into Afghanistan. During the Georgia's invasion of South Ossetia in 2008 he interviewed the President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili. In 2011 he was a fierce supporter of Libya's destruction. Back then he started to vigorously call for toppling the «bloody regime of Bashar Assad».
Flashback The Rohingya Psyops: Waging Covert War on Myanmar (2017)
NATO has never backed the Palestinians or offered to intervene when they were being carpet bombed by the Zionist regime. But it did back the terrorists and drug dealers of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Iran made virtually no gains from its geopolitical adventure in Bosnia. The pro-US 'independent' Bosnian regime subsequently voted to maintain sanctions against them in the United Nations! Much of the demonisation of Serbs was carried out by Bernard Henri Levi, a fanatical Zionist and 'New World Order' agent of chaos. French Zionist Bernard Kouchner was another key player in the destruction of Yugoslavia.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Poster boy for the false Europe (Feb 1 2019)
BHL's career did not stop there-he was a vigorous pamphleteer and human rights enthusiast, albeit selectively. Cameras could find him on the barricades of the Maidan or persuading his friend President Nicolas Sarkozy that France must assist the rebels seeking to overthrow Libya's Moammar Gaddafi. Yet not all human rights victims merited BHL's concern, and some blood and soil nationalisms turned out to be more acceptable than others. Late in life, Levy developed a great attachment to Israel. He is now an apologist for whatever the Israeli government feels like inflicting on Palestinians, in Gaza or elsewhere. As Zémmour puts it, noting the contrast between Lévy's media interventions in France and Israel, "BHL got in the habit of playing a double role, Zola in Paris and Barrès in Jerusalem."
In the next article, there is a review of the role France has played in major modern conflicts. The author appears to argue that France is as if under US occupation, and that many policies do not benefit the French people, but international institutions and companies.

Best of the Web: Inside the Yellow Vests: What the Western media won't tell you (Mar 2019)
Part of the parcel of US occupation is being dragged into violations of international law. France played a major role in bombing Yugoslavia and trafficking organs (Bernard Kouchner was heavily involved). It helped to carve the region up and illegally create Kosovo's "independence". France helped America invade Afghanistan (invading Iraq didn't receive enough public support) in Operation Enduring Freedom (nice name, haha). France (Sarkozy) helped America use Georgia as a battering ram against Russia. France was the ringleader in the evaporation of Libya. France helped arm terrorists in Iraq and feed Al Qaeda, which later resulted in the birth of ISIL/ISIS. France helped AFRICOM send weapons from Libya to Syria. France is permanently in Africa, helping the IMF pillage sovereign nations like Mali.

France helped Al Qaeda/ISIS in Sy-Raq unconditionally in the media space and with financing. France helped Riyadh send Yemen back to the Stone Age. France helps Israel massacre Palestinians. France (using Bernard-Henri Lévy as the middle man) helped America overthrow Yanukovych in Ukraine and unleash civil war.

France has consistently parroted America's anti-Russia propaganda on Skripal, MH-17, Crimea, Trump "collusion", etc. And now France helps America bring Venezuela to its knees. Does absolutely any of this benefit France or the French people? No? Then whom does it benefit? The IMF. NATO. Jacob Rothschild (I am "anti-semitic", yes). Apartheid Israel. Lockheed Martin. Raytheon. Boeing. Goldman Sachs. JP Morgan. Disney. Kelloggs. Qatar. Saudi Arabia. Banderists. Wall Street. Soros. Clinton. AMERICA.
Finally more recently he appears, deservedly or not, in Is the Olena Zelenska Foundation covering for sex trafficking? (Nov 2023)
Bernard-Henry Levy is a figure who is fortunately not very well known inside the United States. He represents a particularly odious strain of the French bourgeoisie; he works as a sort of professional warmonger who spends most of his time justifying NATO's murderous interventions overseas.

As the neoliberal order is obsessed with rules, philosophers such as Levy are useful to them, providing them with the ethical justifications to invade countries and slaughter their people. In Ukraine, Levy and his team made documentaries as fundraisers for the Zelenska foundation lionizing the neo-Nazi Azov battalion, most notably the openly neo-Nazi leader of the defense of Azovstal, Denys Prokopenko. Levy is far more than just a propagandist, however. His deep connections to the NATO power structures mean that Levy's words can kill.

To wit, Levy is credited as the architect of NATO's disastrous Libyan intervention. He met with the leaders of the "Arab Spring" uprising before their rebellion, and when the Salafist forces were on the ropes, Levy called in a favor from his friend Nicholas Sarkozy, the far-right Prime Minister of France, to set up a bombing campaign. A few days later, Levy personally orchestrated a meeting between the rebels and then secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
On SOTT.net Bernard-Hneri Levy appears in text, 50+ articles , as Bernard-Henri Levi, 4 articles The above were examples from among those that appear more related to Ukraine and which might show what could motivate France to become more active in Ukraine. Oddly enough, when did we hear people like Bernard-Henri Lévy speak much about the Odessa Massacre

4) The French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs has published statements about Odessa
Ukraine - France condemns the Russian attack on Odesa (7 March 2024)
As Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Stéphane Séjourné stated, Russia must be defeated in Ukraine. Therefore, France will continue working in close coordination with its partners to provide Ukraine with the support it needs to defend itself. That was the motivation behind the February 26th conference held on President Macron's initiative, which aimed to enable us to better coordinate our efforts for Ukraine and to take faster and greater action. France will continue to provide Ukraine with bilateral military assistance, in accordance with the commitments made in the Agreement on security cooperation that was signed by President Macron and President Zelenskyy on February 16.
Another article, though only in French, has when translated:
Odessa, the most "French" of Ukrainian cities, in danger
Relations between the city of Odessa in Ukraine and France are old and close. France has participated, since the transformation of Odessa into a real seaport and alongside the authorities, in the development and influence of the city. Twinned with Marseille, Ukraine's third city benefits from the support of the largest Mediterranean city in France. A quick look back at 200 years of Franco-Ukrainian friendship.

A Frenchman behind the development of Odessa
At the beginning of the 19th century, Emperor Alexander I entrusted responsibility for the development of the city of Odessa, which was then a small fishing village on the shores of the Black Sea, to a Frenchman, Armand Emmanuel du Plessis de Richelieu, duke de Richelieu and great-great-grandnephew of the cardinal. Appointed governor of the city between 1803 and 1814, the Duke of Richelieu expanded the port and transformed it into a commercial port, supported the creation of public institutions and had a lasting influence on the architecture of the city, giving it its neoclassical and Mediterranean style. Today, the statue of the Duke of Richelieu continues to stand at the top of the steps of the monumental Potemkin Staircase, sometimes called the 'Richelieu Staircase', which connects the port to the city.

Another Frenchman, the Count of Langeron, who became general of the Russian Empire, succeeded the Duke of Richelieu as governor of Odessa. He then declared the city a free port, which allowed him to substantially increase his exports and thus ensure his prosperity.

Odessa, a major city in the French cultural and influence network
Twinned with Marseille since 1972, Odessa became, after the independence of Ukraine, a major city in the cultural network and French influence in the country. This twinning gave rise to several major cultural projects: the Odessa International Film Festival, the Odessa International Jazz Festival and the exhibition project on Odessa at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (MuCEM) of Marseille in 2014. This cooperation continued in 2022 despite Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine: cooperation between Marseille and Odessa intensified and major cultural events were maintained.
For the two French nobles, mentioned above: The Wiki for Armand Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, 5th Duke of Richelieu explains he was a French Royalist and was away from France between 1791 and 1814.
About the Count of Langeron, Napoleon.org writes he left around the time of the French revolution:
promoted up the ranks in the French army to colonel of the Armagnac Regiment in 1788. Langeron joined the Russian Army besieging the Ottoman Fortress of Izmail in 1790. He was awarded a golden sword for his courage and enterprise during the siege, and he remained in the Russian service for the rest of his life.
Imagining these two people today, where would they be? What would they think of the latest French initiatives?

5) From the article:
Honestly speaking, Ukraine's Black Sea coast is France's for the taking, but only if Paris has the political will to go for it and its people don't revolt from the enormous Russian-inflicted casualties that could follow (likely via missile strikes).
Having reviewed some of the available history about Odessa, there can be several reasons, why France would feel pressed or motivated to visit. In a greater context, there may also be the topic of Russophobia:
Western governments and media are using Russophobia to conceal their own social and economic decline
Russophobia: History of Hate | RT Documentary
The Long Roots of Our Russophobia but apart from that in 2015 Saakashvili warns Odessa may soon break away from Ukraine, or was the Georgian Saakashvili the problem, considering: Putin: Saakashvili's appointment as Odessa Governor was 'insult' to Ukrainians from 21 November 2016

6) There can be few illusions left about the benevolence of the west towards Odessa, recall the fire at the Trade Union Center in Odessa on 02 May, 2014? Here are some links to refreshing that horror:
RT spoke to a pro-Russia doctor from Odessa who was jailed by Ukraine for his political views
[...] — Many believe the tragedy of May 2, 2014, was the point of no return in the civil war. What do you think and why?

It wasn't a tragedy, but an act of genocide. And it became the detonator of the civil war. It showed the true intentions of people with respect to the unfolding events.
They are still unfolding, on March 22, 2024, the news was the acknowledgement: Russia is at war - Kremlin
"We are at war," Peskov stated, explaining that while the conflict began as a special military operation, as soon as "the collective West became a participant in this on the side of Ukraine, for us it became a war."