Neville Chamberlain tried to appease Hitler by letting him remilitarize the Rhineland, annex Austria and invade Czechoslovakia. Look at how well that worked out.
Still not my favorite leader, but Macron says the right things wrt transatlantic relationships these days. I hope other EU countries’ leaders can put their pride* away and go along.
Agree and agree. At least the man is uncomplicated; its right on the face of the US and will never bend down. Neither will I.
France approved the 5% GDP expenditure requested by Trump to all NATO countries, he’s only pretending not to bend down because of public opinion
I’ve been saying this since about 2017, about 18 months after the orange child rapist was elected the first time.
Any country that elects a person that’s obviously stupid, 100% corrupt, and completely evil cannot be trusted.Boris Johnson is another shitbag of corrupt disgustingness, but not as bad americas top paedo. I’m English, and I never wanted to leave the EU but I can totally understand if the EU said “Nope” just based on bozo Boris alone.
Socialists have been saying it since NATO was created, maybe we were right all along?
Any country that elects a person that’s obviously stupid, 100% corrupt, and completely evil cannot be trusted.
But it’s never the whole country; usually less than 50% of voters.
And IMO (and I’d appreciate your insights, since I’m not British) Brexit is a perfect example of how easy it is to manipulate a people with targeted content mostly on social media. Of course that sort of propaganda has always been a thing, but social media put it on overdrive, and most of it is perfectly legal even for politicians during elections.
This is the point; you’re completely right. If every time a country makes a mistake they are shunned by those around them then those who are trying to disrupt progressive politics are succeeding. Johnson was elected by far fewer than 50% of the population; indeed in that election (2019) progressive parties won 52.8% of the vote, and under any decent election system we would then have had a progressive coalition. At the very worst we’d have still been within the single market and customs union, and in all probability they would have been a confirmatory referendum (which would have doubtless left us within the European Union).
However it was over 50% of voters that voted for tRump, and they knew what they were getting. So I fear the US has gone beyond a threshold.
France ought to know better than any country that appeasement never turns out well when it comes to fascists.
That’s literally what he’s doing with the far right here though. He’s very much a “both sides” guy, it’s just that the situation in the US is too blatant to ignore. But he’s leading us down the exact same path internally.
Probably works for the politician doing it, in bribes and revolving door jobs.
Macron will drown with the rest of them
Are politicians really that stupid? Why must that be said? At alll. Ever. Water is wet. Shitting your pants is warm for a moment.
Man, i really hope i can kill one of these fuckers in the local uprisings before everything goes to shit.
