America’s Boomer septuagenarian oligarchs be like ”I just wanna smell burning flesh one last time before I croak”
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America’s Boomer septuagenarian oligarchs be like ”I just wanna smell burning flesh one last time before I croak”
If all goes according to plan the only burning flesh the’ll smell would be their own.
On my Twitter feed at least 60% of posts are about Marcron's interview! Some positively unhinged reactions from Atlanticists.
Lethe
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Macron personally is not that important, because his positions are not radical departures from those of previous or likely future French governments. Macron was obviously unconcerned about how his remarks would be received in Washington and other figures may be more circumspect, but the essential French perspective that chafes against American hegemony and sees a multipolar world as furthering French interests will remain. It is clear that European nations such as France have no material interest in joining Washington's crusade to suppress China's development. Washington's task is to leverage its security relationships in Europe, particularly with Eastern European nations, to persuade them to act against their own material interests. This is a challenging task, but Washington has many tools of influence, and it is essentially the same task that confronted them in relation to Russia and its relations with Europe, in which Washington was ultimately successful in provoking a fundamental breach. Even in relation to Russia, note that it was Macron who would spend hours on the telephone with Putin, right up till the end.
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Just use prison or child labor.
I imagine it went:
Macron: I see what you're doing! You are trying to use flattery to get to my ego and get me to jump onboard this multipolar world thing
Xi: You are correct.
...
Xi: is it working?
Macron: ...yes
The size of the reaction Macron is causing is impressive. He's backed down too many times before (particularly sub deal) to make me believe this will mount to much actual action but even just him saying those things is causing an outsized reaction.
I imagine VDL is in big trouble for failing her mission.
And her punishment would be a promotion to become the next Secretary General of NATO.
I was hoping PBS would be spared. My son watches a lot of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood.
