In a Vatnik Soup post about the French far-right RN and its perceived links to Kremlin propaganda, the author draws parallels to Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The post argues that Mélenchon is similar to the “vatnik” label the site uses for people it claims support pro-Russian narratives, and it states that Mélenchon supports Putin and the Kremlin’s allies. It also describes Mélenchon as close to the Venezuela of Chavez/Maduro, which the post portrays as being aligned with Russia, and uses that relationship as evidence of what it calls Mélenchon’s pro-Putin stance.