Who’s Afraid of Emmanuel Macron?
J.B. Shurk – French President Emmanuel Macron is doing that peculiar French thing again…acting tough while looking weak. He gave a speech last Friday at Yonsei University in Seoul during which he demanded that nations not become “vassals” of China or the United States.
Macron wants South Korea to join Canada, Australia, and the European Union in forming what he calls a “coalition of independence” (because “coalition of the willing” was taken) united by shared love for “international order,” “democracy,” and wasting money on “climate change.”
What a tool. I understand that “the powers that be” have so successfully co-opted the West’s political systems that they regularly install absolute nincompoops as nominal leaders (Biden, Starmer, Carney, Merz, and European Queen Ursula, just to name a few) and call it “democracy,” but Macron is such a doofus that his “leadership” is laughable. Continue reading
Niamh Harris – Efforts to reach a Ukraine peace deal are being obstructed because European leaders, who are facing trouble at home, are shifting their political problems onto the international stage, according to Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini.
Rafael Santos Martin – Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s firm and resolute prime minister, has shaken the European negotiating tables with her categorical refusal to send Italian troops to Ukraine, exposing the interventionist obsessions of the European left, embodied by France and the United Kingdom.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai – Marine Le Pen has vowed to ban the