President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday France would never take part in operations to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, pushing back on comments by Donald Trump that Paris was ‌willing to help.

“We are not party to the conflict and therefore France will never take part in operations to open or liberate the Strait of Hormuz in the current context,” Macron said at the start of a cabinet meeting to discuss the conflicts in the Middle East.

France has been pushing ⁠on with its own efforts to put together a coalition to secure the Strait of Hormuz once the security situation stabilises and without a U.S. role, French officials have said.

  • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    yeah it wouldn’t work here, and why would he need to make distraction, he can’t run for the next election anyway so.

    And I’m quite scared by what’s coming next, because currently I know what we have and his foreign policy isn’t the worse imho