[ckilmer]

Macron has recently been saying that Europe needs to protect itself from Russia China and the USA. and develop their own army.

I’m not sure anymore as to whether it would be a bad thing for the Europeans to develop their own national defense.

In any case—toward that end

That’s why Macron went to Petan’s grave.

A European defense force would be primarily French and German.

[Publius]

"Once all the Germans were warlike and mean,
But that couldn't happen again.
We taught them a lesson in 1918,
And they've hardly bothered us since then."

-- Tom Lehrer, "MLF Lullaby," 1965