"Anything other than negotiations would be resolutely opposed by France."
That is NOT skill or mediation and certainly not diplomacy... that is SURRENDER.
He does not comprehend that surrender is NOT peace. Someone please tell him… go on, tell him before he makes himself ridiculous.
So is this the outcome of centuries of the widely praised, globally avowed pre-eminence of French diplomatic prowess? What am I thinking… that legend died a long time ago.
Amazing what burning cars can do.
The French have never believed in goals or solutions to any crisis. To them talking is its own goal; while the real crisis continues to fester and escalate underdeath all their talk.
They run their nation the same way, and thus their Republic is in a state of constantly being torn down and rebuilt; based on some more talk. The current system is the Fifth republic in France in 200 years. Crisis are submerged under endless talk until there is no faith in their system. Then their mobs rip it down and demand a new one.
Why does America and England keep participating in French suicide pacts on foreign affairs?