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2019-10-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

France’s Macron criticizes NATO reaction over Turkish offensive

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Posted by Fred 2019-10-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
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#1 Shut up Macron. You're already a junior "ally". In fact a lot of people question your ally status. Allies don't rip each other off.

The USA has no interests in Syria. None. Deploy French troops if it's so fucking important. Asshole.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-10-19 02:34|| 2019-10-19 02:34|| Front Page Top

#2 All this pearl clutching at what is going on in Syria now is part of the "R2P" - Responsibility To Protect - nonsense cooked up by the left-globaloney crowd as a hair shirt to wear in the aftermath of the Rwanda debacle.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-19 06:17|| 2019-10-19 06:17|| Front Page Top

#3 He seems to misunderstand what NATO is. it's a partnership to defend Europe from Soviet invasion. What sovereign members of NATO do outside that is not really NATO's business.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-10-19 10:58|| 2019-10-19 10:58|| Front Page Top

#4 It something in the Parisian water?
(Jacques Chirac, 2003): "These countries have not been very well-behaved," said Chirac, referring to the Vilnius group. "They missed a great opportunity to shut up." Monsieur le President also suggested that the leaders of those nations had acted "recklessly" by not recognizing the "danger of aligning themselves too rapidly with the American position."
In effect, what Chirac told those EU candidate nations is that they are expected to take their marching orders from Paris and Berlin.

Posted by magpie 2019-10-19 14:53|| 2019-10-19 14:53|| Front Page Top

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