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A French government minister castigated energy giant TotalEnergies on Friday for launching an oil exploration project in South America, saying companies needed to help the world exit from fossil fuels.

He then castigated “the venomous coalition attacking” the populist media figure for interviewing Mr. Fuentes and urged conservatives to focus “on our political adversaries on the left, not attacking our friends on the right.”

It repeats, without shedding new light, on the ways Kissinger has long been celebrated and castigated.

“I want to make a difference … They have to castigate, they have to impugn my motives. Because, if I’m right, what does that say about them?”

Western governments — including some of Israel’s most loyal supporters — castigated the decision to invade, with Germany’s foreign minister slamming it as “the completely wrong path” and France saying the campaign had “no military logic.”