Posted on 11/17/2020 12:30:18 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
European leaders must not let up on efforts to construct an autonomous bloc that is capable of resisting the duopoly of China and the US, Emmanuel Macron has said in his first extended response to the US presidential election.
The French president said the US would only respect Europe if it was sovereign with respect to its own defence, technology and currency. Warning that US values and interests were not quite the same as Europe’s, he said: “It is not tenable that our international policies should be dependent on it or to be trailing behind it.” The same need for independence applied even more to China, he added.
His analysis came in a marathon interview in the journal Le Grand Continent, conducted last Thursday, in which he called for a redoubling of the protection of the values of the European enlightenment against “barbarity and obscurantism”. Le Grand Continent is the review attached to the leading French thinktank Groupe d’Études Géopolitiques.
Macron suggested 2020 may prove to be a landmark year similar to 1945, 1968 and 2007. Much of the interview considered the extent to which the forces that led to Donald Trump’s election in 2016, and the UK’s Brexit vote, could be contained, and reversed.
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Why not seek ways to partner with the US?
Macron wants to control the whole thing.
Because they hate the US almost as much as they fear China.
But when the shtf we want to hide under your skirt please
There’s no almost about it.
The EU is a co-conspirator in Spygate.
And doesn’t Macron personally have his old cougar to protect him?
Didn’t Napoleon say the same basic thing?
I like to hedge my bets when I comment :)
But you are right.
Will they like the US now that it may go full communist deviant, white hating left?
As long as there are Americans who cherish and defend our Constitution and republic, the EU will have it in for us.
Works for me.
Don’t diss the cougar.
She’s likely got bigger ones than he has.
Yeah well if the day comes that biden is inaugurated and there is no major response, then that means no one really cherishes or is willing to defend the constitution and republic.
And that won’t work for any of us.
there’s more than a few European countries for which time is long past due to assert independence from Brussels!
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