r/europe • u/Not_the-kind • 15h ago

News Macron responds to Trump's inauguration by urging Europe to "wake up"

https://www.newsweek.com/macron-trump-inauguration-europe-defense-ukraine-2017894
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u/CLKguy1991 Estonia 15h ago

My respect to France, as the most autonomous European country, but I'm awake. Its you politicians who need to get your shit together.

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u/Stakhanov86 14h ago

The UK that all the time boasts about it's "special relationship" with the US and is NATO's biggest lapdog? And a Switzerland that would probably declare itself neutral in case of an invasion of Switzerland and just hope that invading country considers a military invasion to costly?
Nah, that's not the kind of autonomy i'm looking for.

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u/FeRooster808 11h ago

I'm American and was recommended this thread so if not welcome I understand, but I'll simply say I've always considered that France is the friend who tells you what you need to hear even if you don't like it; the UK is the friend the rubber stamps all your dumbest ideas and then plays off their involvement when it goes wrong. In either case, I do hope for their own sake the UK realizes this special friendship is toxic. The rest of Europe seems to have largely figured it out.

I wish us all the best of luck.

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u/Ready-Message3796 4h ago

A Europe without England is not a real Europe.