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France Finance Minister: Europe Must Become an ‘Empire..
breitbart ^ | 11/13/2018 | Victoria Freidman

Posted on 11/13/2018 6:24:31 AM PST by chief lee runamok

France’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has called for Europe to become an “empire” to compete with the United States after the country’s President Emmanuel Macron called for an EU army to defend against the NATO ally.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 4threich; barroso; brunolemaire; empire; euarmy; euempire; eumilitary; eussr; fourthreich; france; lemaire; nationalism; nato; vichyfrance
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To: V_TWIN

“How did that work out for France?” Trump wrote referring to World War I and World War II. “They were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along. Pay for NATO or not!”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/13/donald-trump-taunts-emmanuel-macron-no-country-more-nationalist-than-france/


21 posted on 11/13/2018 6:40:52 AM PST by mandaladon (It's always good to be underestimated. ~Donald Trump)
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To: WalterSkinner

“The Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy nor Roman, nor an Empire.” Voltaire


22 posted on 11/13/2018 6:41:29 AM PST by kabar
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To: All

Roman Empire (re) arising.


23 posted on 11/13/2018 6:41:45 AM PST by veracious (UN=OIC=Islam ; Dems may change USAgov completely, just amend USConstitution)
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To: chief lee runamok

If we ever defend France again, we’re nuts.


24 posted on 11/13/2018 6:42:47 AM PST by Terry Mross (On some threads it's best to go jst inraight to the comments..)
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To: dangus
“Good thing there’s no nationalism in Europe.”

Exactly! Pathetically hypocritical, isn't it? I posted a link (separate thread) to a charitable giving index that shows France as number 72 on the list (per capita), with the US number four on the most recent assessment - but number 1 and 2 generally in the past several years (again - per capita; If in absolute dollars I'm sure we would always be in the top 2 - if not always number one). How does France's poor charitable giving, and the US’s generosity fit with Macron's comments about nationalism being selfish and ignoring the world's needs?

25 posted on 11/13/2018 6:42:49 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: kabar
Emmanuel Macron suggests building its own army to protect Europe against the U.S., China and Russia. But it was Germany in World Wars One & Two - How did that work out for France? They were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along. Pay for NATO or not!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Donald J. Trump
26 posted on 11/13/2018 6:43:35 AM PST by mandaladon (It's always good to be underestimated. ~Donald Trump)
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To: chief lee runamok

What about European nations who reject the emperor?


27 posted on 11/13/2018 6:44:40 AM PST by Socon-Econ
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To: chief lee runamok
"Europe must become an empire."

That's been tried quite a few times, and all such efforts have failed, the most recent occurring in 1989.

28 posted on 11/13/2018 6:47:32 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: chief lee runamok

So how long will this “empire de mille ans” last?


29 posted on 11/13/2018 6:48:17 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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To: KarlInOhio

Hah

That’s good

He’s a dimestore Fuhrer, isn’t he?

Any one of the Le Pen girls could kick his butt, and he’d like it


30 posted on 11/13/2018 6:53:04 AM PST by Regulator
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To: chief lee runamok

I don’t know, sounds like a case of Super-Nationalism to me.


31 posted on 11/13/2018 6:54:54 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Stop The Madness. Do Not Respond To Vanity Posts.)
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To: chief lee runamok

So if they don’t actually NEED NATO why are they always crying when Trump suggest de-funding NATO? Doesn’t compute.


32 posted on 11/13/2018 6:56:05 AM PST by wiseprince
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To: SaveFerris

Ping to thread


33 posted on 11/13/2018 6:56:23 AM PST by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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From the article.....

"..The Finance Minister’s adversarial position comes after French President Emmanuel Macron said last week that the EU needs its own army to “protect” itself from “China, Russia and even the United States of America.”

Macron has joined the ranks of Eurocrats Guy Vehofstadt MEP and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in calling for deeper EU integration which could eventually lead to a United States of Europe."

But that's not nationalism is it? It's pie-in-the-sky, that's what it is. Macron will be defeated by LaPen in the next election in May 2019 and he and his best buddies are looking for a home after. Let's create some multinational organization which will pay a good salary and keep us in the limelight, shall we Mr Macaroni?

34 posted on 11/13/2018 6:59:31 AM PST by Sa-teef
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To: chief lee runamok

Hopefully without US money.


35 posted on 11/13/2018 7:07:32 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA
Hopefully without US money.

Without US money Europe is ..well...Zimbabwe.

36 posted on 11/13/2018 7:10:29 AM PST by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: chief lee runamok

The euros have a task on their hands. They want to unify and make a continental army, but first they must decide whether they are western thinkers or sharya thinkers. This decision will be made with immense loss of life, or wholesale surrender of freedom.


37 posted on 11/13/2018 7:10:43 AM PST by lurk
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To: chief lee runamok

This era will likely be referred to as the ‘Macroni Empire’ period, with the limp-inspired Macroni running the vast empire.


38 posted on 11/13/2018 7:14:13 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: WalterSkinner
kind of like a revived Roman Empire it sounds...

To those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, it does.

39 posted on 11/13/2018 7:15:57 AM PST by Always A Marine ("When you strike at a king, you must kill him" - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: chief lee runamok

Ok. Europe, your own your own. Immediate withdrawal of all troops stationed in Europe. Withdraw from NATO. Oh, and don’t call us when you get invaded. Again.


40 posted on 11/13/2018 7:17:52 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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