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The Americans are dead scared and paranoid that everything falls apart for them. Nothing less than 1,000% obedience to the US will calm US nerves – 99% is not enough. We saw this with Germany. We see it now with France too.
Macron goes to China, and the Neocon media (here Politico) gets paranoid that France in its own interest with China will defect from the USA.
Nobody forced Macron to show up with a huge business delegation.
Suddenly, France is not even “allowed” to care for its own commercial interests by taking a business delegation to China without US “permission”. France (like Germany) cannot be hawkish enough, and if it isn’t, then it’s already half a French defection of the USA.
Since Biden came to power, France has forgotten everything about “strategic autonomy” and Macron is kowtowing as a lackey of the USA. Even when the US steals French submarines, Macron bends and says “kick me again”. But Xi kindly reminds Macron of the “strategic autonomy” concept, and BOOM, the Neocons in Politico get scared – go ballistic that France might remember.
We se the same US paranoia reflected in the Neocon Politico piece about Macron’s visit to Putin up to the Ukraine war. Macron never gave a millimeter to Putin, Macron was just wasting the Russian leaders’ time with idle talk. So why the US fuzz? In the context of above, we that the US went ballistic over Macron’s talks with Putin, because of US paranoia. The US was dead scared also in 2022, that Macron should “give away” something from the US and give it to Russia.
The US is a house of cards.
An inflated balloon – big on the outside – filled with fear, anger, endless unfulfilled global ambitions on the inside.
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Karsten Riise is a Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School and has a university degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from Copenhagen University. He is the former Senior Vice President Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Mercedes-Benz in Denmark and Sweden.
He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
