Posted on 08/27/2018 9:02:32 AM PDT by Olog-hai
President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said preserving European Union unity was more important than forging a close relationship with post-Brexit Britain, and hit out at what he called U.S. President Donald Trump’s “aggressive” isolationism.
As pressure mounts on Prime Minister Theresa May to agree terms for Britain’s divorce from the EU and the shape of their future trade relationship, Macron showed no sign of breaking ranks with other EU capitals.
“France wants to maintain a strong, special relationship with London but not if the cost is the European Union’s unraveling,” he told a gathering of French ambassadors.
Brexit, Macron said, “is a sovereign choice, which we must respect, but it can’t come at the expense of the European Union’s integrity”. […]
He urged Europe to exert itself as “a trade and economic power”, which defends its strategic interests and financial independence and is able to fend off the extraterritorial reach of U.S. sanctions.
Macron also pressed the need for EU member states to show more solidarity. …
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FOr being isolated Trump sure seems to be making a lot of trade agreements with individual countries...he’s just not making a deal with the grifters of the EU as a whole.
Is that what you call a President who is looking our for his country......?
Pay what you owe NATO already
Anytime, any one, start saying how they want a “special relationship” with you usually indicates that they think you can do a lot for them, not that they intend to do a lot for you. Our relationship with the UK comes to mind. Now France says they want a special relationship with UK.
If your neighbor expresses desire to have a special relationship with you the first thing you would think, is “what does he want”?
What “isolationism”?
Now they presume to scold us for taking similar steps.
As an American I am glad that Trump and Macron have nothing in common.
Says the guy in bed with the mullahs...
No more kisses for you, Manny! Go back to your grandma.
How many times does the US have to go bail out Europe for their stupidity costing American lives and treasure? And they being ungrateful later.
Socialism is an unworkable ideology. It eventually fails, but works better when participating countries are also miserable.
Once a country gets out and starts to practice free enterprise, that country will zoom past the places bogged down with destructive socialist policies.
The USA went to war after having war declared on it, and scored a decisive victory. The “bail(ing) out” happened afterwards at the behest of leftist traitors who saw an opportunity to weaken the USA from within and without.
Kaiser Wilhelm II’s vision for his empire was to have “a United States of Europe against America”. That vision never died, because the left of the USA kept it alive even after that vision caused two world wars.
You talking 1st. or 2nd.? Japan never declared war on us, they just attacked without warning. In WW1 it was unrestricted submarine warfare - the Zimmerman telegram had little to do with it but was another reason.
“fend off the extraterritorial reach of U.S. sanctions”
The US will do what it takes to keep itself (and Europe) safe.
US sanctions are for the good of all and should be respected by all.
EU government overreaction to UK attempts to regain control of itself is making most of Europe very nervous.
The UK simply:
1. doesn’t want to have its welfare system overloaded
2. wants the ability to ignore inappropriate EU regulations domestically
3. wants the ability to sort out its housing affordability problem
Germany declared war on us, the day after we declared war on her ally, Japan.
Germany certainly declared war on us in 1941. That was unambiguous.
Kaiser Wilhelm II clearly stated that he wanted a “United States of Europe against America”. The EU is not separate from that old plan.
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