I know you love the EU, but really, Macron has been an arse and he has finally realised how badly this has gone down in Eastern Europe.The BlueMoon "surrender monkey" interpretation seems to be the opposite of how most analysts have viewed the speech.
Macron extends olive branch to Eastern Europeans
The French president was applauded for hitting several popular policy notes in the east.www.politico.eu
Saying we will negotiate with Putin if he's still there is merely the blindingly obvious.
Mark Sumner Update:
Ukraine Update: Anti-Putin forces cross the border again for another attack inside Russia
On Thursday, members of the Freedom of Russia Legion and Russian Volunteer Corps, known as RDK, once again crossed the Russian border. This time, the anti-Putin Russian factions attacked a location some 90 kilometers east of the area where they crossed...www.dailykos.com
I know you love the EU, but really, Macron has been an arse and he has finally realised how badly this has gone down in Eastern Europe.
But he clearly has just talked the talk.
It's time he walked the walk - HE HASN'T so far.
Deflection technique in action.As I posted, your views on Macron's speech seem to be the opposite of analysts. And also the opposite of the Eastern European leaders it was aimed at.
Doubtless your surrender monkey views won't change one iota as a result.
Why do you keep going on about the EU. It’s totally irrelevant to this discussion.Deflection technique in action.
Taking EU contributions into account, France would have to increase its contributions as a factor of GDP by a factor of 2.5 to reach the level of contributions from Les Rosbifs. 5 to reach that supplied by Poland and the Baltics.
(Note The Kiel figures only currently go to the end of January, but the French haven't caught up since.)
Time for Macron to Walk the Walk.
Deflection technique in action.
Taking EU contributions into account, France would have to increase its contributions as a factor of GDP by a factor of 2.5 to reach the level of contributions from Les Rosbifs. 5 to reach that supplied by Poland and the Baltics.
(Note The Kiel figures only currently go to the end of January, but the French haven't caught up since.)
Time for Macron to Walk the Walk.