• FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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            5 days ago

            What, how did you get that out of what I wrote? He should have called out Trump’s bullshit a long time ago.

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              I’m pretty sure he has. And he’s doing it again now, but you’re giving him shit for it. So according to your logic no one should ever call it out, because once it makes headlines then people like you will come along saying “hE sHoUlD hAvE aLrEaDy DoNe ThAt!” as if the previous times don’t count for anything.

              So might as well not make headlines, right?

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      France has been barely friends with the US for a long time. That the US has a flee up their bum because of France should be common knowledge by now. The French are unapologetically chauvinist and proud about their culture. They often make jokes about the lack of yank culture. They have been very loud about taxing US companies, they are one of the few European countries that try to have their own military equipment production, they spend inordinate amount of money removing US tech from their government and are loud and proud of their “la French tech”.

      Charles de Gaulle was pro-Europe and anti-USA long before Macron was even born. The very reason there are jokes about French losing wars is because of US propaganda - it flat out false. France has had a very successful military (to the horror of those who lost against them). They are actually one of the most successful militaries in the world. Yankees have regularly lost against the French in war games.

      Just because you’re finally aware the French disdain for seppos doesn’t change reality.

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        5 days ago

        Okay, so why did it take Macron so long to call the US out? You answered a question I didn’t ask.

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          I answered. He already figured it out long ago. Now’s just the acceptable time to say it.

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            Now’s just the acceptable time to say it.

            That’s the problem. Waiting until it is “acceptable.”

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          5 days ago

          Cause now is the time when the only moderately functional military in western Europe can make her own claim for hegemony.