French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Europe to assert itself on the world stage, saying it is time to start acting like a “power”.
In the face of growing threats from China, Russia and now the US, he told a group of European newspapers that the continent faced a “wake-up call”.
"Are we ready to become a power? This is the question in the field of economy and finance, in defence and security, and in our democratic systems.
“In another era we might have said it is the moment to ‘assume our majority’,” he said ahead of an EU summit in Brussels later this week.
As long as it’s not France’s idea of being a power… I have no interest in colonialism.
Indeed we should. So long as this doesn’t mean that we move towards being isolationists, imperialists or Nazi’s.
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You guys do have a bit of a habit with those things…
The first thing a Global Power Europe does is invade and colonize North Africa.
No. They are not ready. If all your computers and phones “phone home” with “home” being your adversary’s country (that’s how USA deals with Europe in the last year), then you cannot call yourself a world power. Most PCs in Europe use Windows and MacOS. Almost all phones are either Android or iOS. And even if they managed to replace all the software with locally developed Linux, all recent (last 20 years) x86 PCs have either Intel Management Engine or AMD Security Technology. If they chose to make intensive efforts to replace their systems, computers and phones, it would take at least a decade to achieve this. And even then, the US would likely be able to penetrate their systems. It’s so much easier to yield to the Emperor of the Western World for the perennially submissive European serfs.
RISC-V ftw!
That means cutting ties with Israel and the Zionist oligarchs trying to implement mass surveillance. They don’t seem to understand that basic reality though because they keep trying to force the digital ID through Zionist Larry Ellisons company Oracle onto their populace.
Wtf has zionism to do with mass surveillance outside of Palestine?
Does Europe have any power? If yes, then Ukraine is the perfect place to demonstrate it. Imagine how powerful 1 million artillery shells per month would look. A hundred tanks and planes per month would look powerful too. Thousand missiles per month might send the powerful message too.
Talking and urging isn’t powerful.
10000000 Nukes would be even more powerful.
Nukes are more cute than useful.
Hydrogen bombs are very useful to obliterate Moscow. The largest population concentrations of Russians/Gopniks.
You can’t obliterate gopnicks with cuteness. You can do that with classical explosives bombs though.
Western civilization needs to be preserved! Build Russian democracy to the western standards. Treat them conventionally like Gaza Hamas Terrorists.
I’d much rather see Europe rule the world than the US.
