“The French of today are political idiots in world politics. Firstly, because they are part of the policies of China, an authoritarian country, and secondly, because they are against the US, the only guarantor of France’s security. Third, they unrealistically assess the situation and their strengths. The dream of a third superpower in the world, namely the European Union, is nonsense, nonsense. France, with its small GDP compared to the US or China, with no power projection in the form of military capabilities, is bantamweight and wants to box heavyweight. The EU can only fight in the heavyweight division if it cooperates with the US,” said Artur Wróblewski, a US specialist, in an interview with the wPolityce.pl portal.
wPolityce.pl: French President Emmanuel Macron, on his way back from China, said in an interview with journalists that Europe cannot become an imitator of America, and on the Taiwan issue, he said that it is a great risk for Europe to be “involved” To hit”. in crises that are not ours” and I don’t want to fall into bloc versus bloc logic. How would you react to the French president’s statement?
Arthur Wroblewski: Macron cannot find his place in foreign policy as he supports the People’s Republic of China and warms relations with China at the moment when they correctly support Russia, their vassal, in the conflict in Ukraine and blackmail and pressure Taiwan, that is a democratic country with legal elections. China, on the other hand, is an authoritarian country. It seems that we are dealing with a certain continuation of the tradition of French foreign policy, consisting of building its position against the US, and secondly, based on its selfish national, economic and political interests, power projection, for example in Africa, and third – in a way against the EU. It has been said that France and Germany are the engine of the EU, but we see that it is the engine that should lead France and maybe someone else, but not all other EU countries. What Macron has done is primarily a PR operation for President Xi Jinping is making yourself a useful idiot for President Xi and Russia because by saying the Taiwan conflict is not our conflict we are actually saying that we do not take global responsibility for democratic countries that are blackmailed by an authoritarian country. In addition, Macron emphasized in this way that we are not interested in Americans, we do not care about them.
Speaking of this tradition of French foreign policy – are you referring all the way back to Charles de Gaulle?
This is one plot, 1966 and the restriction of French membership in NATO, the transfer of NATO headquarters from Paris to Brussels. In March 2009, the French returned to NATO military structures, but on the occasion of this decision in the 1960s, De Gaulle said he wanted to keep sovereignty, which Macron said now, saying that the EU needs sovereignty, strategic autonomy, independence of the US, the conflict over Taiwan, etc. De Gaulle spoke in the same way about maintaining sovereignty and that no one would co-decide and limit France’s nuclear potential, which is why he left NATO’s military structures, despite the fact that more than 20 years earlier the Americans saved Charles de Gaulle, they liberated France, because the French alone could not do anything against the Germans. Now we have another example of selfishness and tradition in French policy against the US. In 2018, Macron and Angela Merkel met in Meseberg and also discussed the EU’s strategic autonomy, and in December 2020 the EU signed an investment deal with China, even though President Biden had already won the US election and asked to wait until January , when he gives power of attorney and does not sign this agreement, but consults with him and his administration. This is proof of infidelity and that the French are political idiots in world politics these days. Firstly, because they are part of the policies of China, an authoritarian country, and secondly, because they are against the US, the only guarantor of France’s security. Third, they unrealistically assess the situation and their strengths. The dream of a third superpower in the world, namely the European Union, is nonsense, nonsense. France, with its small GDP compared to the US or China, with no power projection in the form of military capabilities, is bantamweight and wants to box heavyweight. The EU can only do heavyweight boxing if it cooperates with the US. However, Macron’s idea that France will push the US out of Europe and accept Chinese investment, also invest there, is a delusion. What is happening is not some kind of geo-economic conflict, economic, as Macron thinks. This is a philosophical dispute between the world of good and evil, the world of democracy and the world of authoritarianism. Macron puts the interests of France’s selfish interests above those of the EU and the Euro-Atlantic community.
You mentioned the deal with China that the EU signed without consulting the US. However, isn’t Emmanuel Macron a little right on this point – that the EU should try to be independent from the US, not so subservient to the Americans, yet strategically autonomous?
He agrees that it is about strategic autonomy, but not that you are against the US. So what if we invest in China right now, since it’s an authoritarian country that leans towards imperialism, so it’s going to take over, steal these investments anyway. China should become a transparent country and respect international law. You can’t do business with a criminal, because in the end he cheats anyway. The Chinese are lying, they want to absorb Taiwan instead of solving this problem on a settlement basis. China has a repressive regime that has created a slave nation and concentration camps. Getting along with them is like getting along and creating strategic autonomy with Hitler before World War II. Tried it and nothing happened.
Emmanuel Macron tried to speak on behalf of the entire EU, including Poland – without that permission.
Poland has to fight for leadership in the EU, we are the third most important country in the EU – after Germany and France. You must ridicule French politics. Even if EU forces were raised by 2003, 50,000-60,000 soldiers would be ready to fight in 5 days. This has not been implemented and it shows the EU’s weakness and inability to build anything because of French and German selfishness. This selfishness is evidenced by the fact that Auchan stores are still operating in Russia.
Earlier, much critical comment was provoked by a series of phone calls from Emmanuel Macron to Vladimir Putin, which yielded nothing concrete about stopping the Russian-led invasion of Ukraine.
This is an example of sucking to do business. For this reason, French companies are still active in Russia, because at least for the current French authorities, it is about business, about money and not about humanistic values.
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Source: wPolityce