[kabar]

The EU is unraveling. Brexit negotiations are about done. Countries like Poland and Hungary refuse to accept Muslim refugees despite threatened fines by the EU. Merkel is being forced off the world stage. Macron wants to pick up the baton, but he lacks the credibility to do so.

For many, many years France was a non-participating NATO member preferring to go its own way with its "force de frappe." French nationalism was always paramount and still is. The French even have a government bureau that decides what foreign phrases will be accepted into the language or changed into French.

Macron's Orwellian use of words to define nationalism and patriotism is laughable. “War is peace / freedom is slavery [and] ignorance is strength.”

[mandaladon]

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