so-called Benalla Affair has a Russian oligarch connection

France's 'Benalla Affair' - the scandal Macron can't shake. Noting this because I have a coworker who has an inexplicably interest with how bad Macron fucked up & how the yellow vest protests are proceeding. What's funny is that last weekend, it turned out he'd never heard of the Benella video.

It's also interesting to me because of the Russian oligarch angle- not in the exhausting Putin! sense, but in the worldwide corruption that is capitalism. Seeing Iskander Makhmudov paying Macron's allies in what seems a a mining deal is fun in contrast with all of Macron's austerity policies. Throw in a petty thug in their service beating protesters to get his jollies fleshes out that picture better.