1/7
It has been obvious for a long time that Gaullist ideas are rooted in how France bemoaned its loss of Great Power status. But if you're a mid-sized European nation worried about Moscow, you want reliable protection and no artificial irritants to relations with the U.S.
It has been obvious for a long time that Gaullist ideas are rooted in how France bemoaned its loss of Great Power status. But if you're a mid-sized European nation worried about Moscow, you want reliable protection and no artificial irritants to relations with the U.S.
https://twitter.com/IlvesToomas/status/1528314039243251714
2/7
But how, then, should Europeans insure themselves against a possibly more demanding or overstretched U.S.? Security starts at home, at the national level. CEE Allies are moving towards this: strong national capabilities and defence budgets are the win-win approach.
But how, then, should Europeans insure themselves against a possibly more demanding or overstretched U.S.? Security starts at home, at the national level. CEE Allies are moving towards this: strong national capabilities and defence budgets are the win-win approach.
3/7
In a healthy context of high defence investment, allied collaboration will be on a solid footing, with no resentment due to free riding. The other part is boots on the ground and skin in the game. Here, another France is coming into focus -
In a healthy context of high defence investment, allied collaboration will be on a solid footing, with no resentment due to free riding. The other part is boots on the ground and skin in the game. Here, another France is coming into focus -
4/7
While criticism of #Macron's approach to #Moscow is largely justified, #France is currently doing a very good thing in leading the formation of a new #NATO presence in #Romania.
While criticism of #Macron's approach to #Moscow is largely justified, #France is currently doing a very good thing in leading the formation of a new #NATO presence in #Romania.
5/7
This is in effect a normalisation - France is now doing what the US, UK, Canada and Germany were already doing in Northeast Europe since 2016-17. And it should be welcomed.
This is in effect a normalisation - France is now doing what the US, UK, Canada and Germany were already doing in Northeast Europe since 2016-17. And it should be welcomed.
6/7
Less welcome:
1-treating arms sales as some kind of existential issue
2-fantasies of a concert of Great Powers in which being at the top table is more important than Allies
3-foreign policy cynicism and unwillingness to call a spade a spade
Less welcome:
1-treating arms sales as some kind of existential issue
2-fantasies of a concert of Great Powers in which being at the top table is more important than Allies
3-foreign policy cynicism and unwillingness to call a spade a spade
7/7
Je conclus en français.
La France que l'on aime, c'est celle qui croit haut et fort en ses propres idéaux : Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. Et donc qui pense: "Le régime de Poutine c'est une bande de salopards qui méritent une raclée. Ils touchent la Pologne, on les défonce."
Je conclus en français.
La France que l'on aime, c'est celle qui croit haut et fort en ses propres idéaux : Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. Et donc qui pense: "Le régime de Poutine c'est une bande de salopards qui méritent une raclée. Ils touchent la Pologne, on les défonce."
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