Friday, April 7, 2023

Macron Kowtows

23-9-13 France & MGCS outside development of next Leopard? - Binkov > .
23-9-13 France vs Turkey in Africa - TLDR > .
23-4-20 Macron, Xina, US, EU strategic autonomy - Kalypso Nicolaïdis - STG > .
23-4-19 Macron's geopolitical stir: the good, the bad and the ugly - STG > .
23-4-18 Von der Leyen ~ EU-Xina relations (post Macron upset) - DW > .
23-4-18 Changing relationship between Europe and USA - Into Europe > .
23-4-15 Macron’s Controversial ‘Strategic Autonomy’ Comments - Update > .
23-4-14 Macron's Xina Controversy Explained - TLDR > .
23-4-13 Real Reason For France’s Pension Protests | EcEx > .
22-7-26 France's Geostrategy Towards Central Europe - gtbt > .
Understanding R-U War - Alex Stubb STG Lecture Series >> .

EU 2023 ..

Infamous for fawning over tRUMP and imagining that he could sway P00ti across an enormous table, Emmanuel Macron continues to fancy himself a statesman capable of charming sociopaths away from their malevolent agendas. Macron not only failed to convince Xi to limit his support for Ruscia, his Franco-centric remarks created a diplomatic uproar. Macron called on Europe to develop its own stance independent of the US to deal with tensions between Xina and Taiwan. [Ironic considering that France is one of the few European nations with holdings in the Pacific.]

Warning against becoming “vassals” to the US or China, Macron declared that, “The great risk” for Europe is that it “gets caught up in crises that are not ours, which prevents it from building its strategic autonomy.”" [This from the President of a nation that inadvertently dragged the USA into two "Great Power" global conflicts.] Politicians, diplomats and analysts on both sides of the Atlantic condemned the remarks as "tone-deaf and ill timed" considering that the US has backed European security by bankrolling Ukraine’s defense.

"France, Germany, and the Netherlands have, in different ways, drawn up national Indo-Pacific strategies in recent years. They have been the driving force behind the EU’s effort to find a more decisive approach to the region. This effort led to the release in April 2021 of the European Council’s conclusions on the “EU Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific”, which paved the way for the union to adopt an official strategy that can now initiate a new approach. To move from the drawing board to implementation, Europeans will need to answer several tough questions that are in tension with the consensual language of EU documents."

CSDP, EDU, EU Army ..

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