Posted on 11/11/2018 9:45:14 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
French President Emmanuel Macron denounced nationalism during an Armistice Day centennial observance in Paris on Sunday. Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism: Nationalism is treason, Macron said, according to a Euronews translator.
Macron spoke in front of world leaders including President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
If we think our interests may only come first and we dont care for others, it is a treason of our values, a betrayal of all moral values, he said. We must remember this.
Macron said that the moral values of France helped them fight for the future of their country.
He praised the world leaders that formed the first League of Nations, after World War I.
They imagined the first international corporation, the dismantling of empires, and redefined borders, and dreamed at the time of a union, a political union of Europe, Macron said.
He lamented that the spirit of revenge and humiliation after World War I sparked renewed nationalism that led to World War II.
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Somebody! Quick! Hand that French guy a dictionary!
didn’t macron say last week that he wanted a French Army to protect against threat from the United States?
The political structure that arose after the armistice was a well intentioned nightmare.
Well, if Macron means ‘treason’ against globalism, I think he’s correct. What is the penalty?
Used “Imagine” as back round music, right?
ALL disasters for the mankind.
Early 20th Century virtue signaling. Worked out well.
As far as I know, there was a Resistance in France, made up of truly heroicFrench citizens. As far as the leaders and military, they surrendered in both world wars. So much for fighting for the future of their country.
He wants a German army to defend him from his own people...and a richly deserved date with the guillotine.
The French not standing up for their own country isn’t exactly breaking news.
Globalism that subordinates patriotism IS treason.
These people have been completely educated into non-thinking idiocy.
Hitler didn’t believe in nationalism either - should France have just capitulated?
Can't anyone remember VICHY?
Oh well, I guess we'll always have Paris Rick.
The French didn't surrender in WWI. They just couldn't win (along with the rest of their allies) until we came in and broke the stalemate.
In WW2 the French Army did indeed disgrace themselves though.
Treason against whom? The EU? Luckily, we are not a part of that pocket-stealing dictatorship.
What an idiot. Better arrest much of Russia and Greece then, for a beginning.
Because the Germans prefer to march in the shade.
This is all about the right of self-government vs. rule by global power.
And we are cursed with a dominant class in the media, universities, Hollywood, and billionaire donors who absolutely loathe the right of self-government.
Pour France, le jour de gloire ne jamais arrive.
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