Emmanuel Macron’s comments come as Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, warns against turning world into ‘robber’s den’
The presidents of France and Germany have sharply condemned US foreign policy under Donald Trump, saying respectively that Washington was “breaking free from international rules” and the world risked turning into a “robber’s den”.
In unusually strong and apparently uncoordinated remarks, Emmanuel Macron and Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned the postwar rules-based international order could soon disintegrate.
“The US is an established power, but one that is gradually turning away from some of its allies and breaking free from the international rules that it was until recently promoting,” Macron told France’s diplomatic corps at the Élysée Palace on Thursday.
You were never allies, more like useful idiots that defended their masters every action until its finger started pointing towards you.
The US was also useful to other countries. An alliance isn’t a friendship, it’s an agreement between countries to work towards common interests.
There are still common interests between the US and many other countries in the world. Just the leadership is incompetent and doesn’t know or care about US interests. And the American people were stupid enough to vote that guy in a second time so no one can trust Americans to not continue fucking up until there’s a massive cultural change which will take generations.
Well you’re not wrong there…
With the Iraq invasion, for example, decades ago, I remember all of Europe going behind the the US, even though everyone knew the weapons of mass destruction was a complete and utter lie.
The US, Russia, China, they’re all the same and all only interested in regional or world domination. Fuck humanity, fuck humans, it’s all about a few rich and powerful
Those rich and powerful have to go, they’re a cancer on humanity and they WILL kill us all
Once that’s gone, we need to put hard caps on personal wealth, world wide. No more millionaires, fuck that. Anything over a million can go straight to taxes. If we’d have that, and a government where nobody can have more than a few % of the power, we can finally have trustworthy governments (competence is a different thing, still) that will have so much income that we can do free healthcare, free education, universal basic income, you name it
Fuck the rich, fuck the powerful, I want a better world for EVERYBODY
You have a harsh view of the world. Maybe lighten up on yourself. It might help you to have more compassion.
He’s not wrong.
Yeah, it’s harsh, yeah it’s sucks, it’s also true, or have you forgotten operation Iraqi “”““freedom””“”"
I mean the Marshall plan more or less rebuilt the entirety of Europe…