RT International: French President Vows to Double Military Spending Budget by 2027

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This eight-minute interview deals with President Macron’s key patriotic message to his countrymen on this national holiday of Bastille Day

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As I say here, Macron has never seen a microphone that he did not want to grab and use. His message today has to be put in the context of French-German rivalry.  Traditionally within the French-German tandem that ran the European Economic Community until 1991 and the European Union today there was a division of labor, with the French taking the international stage of diplomacy and military (nuclear) might while the Germans busied themselves with manufacturing and exporting goods. However, the succession of weak and incompetent French presidents these last 15 years installed with CIA assistance caused France to lose its feathers as a leader of Europe. Germany has stepped up, putting aside its reservations to be too visible given its Third Reich past.  The sins of the grandfathers are no longer considered in Germany to be an obstacle to taking the reins of power in Europe and that is just what Chancellor Merz has pledged to do by his massive appropriations to the German military industry.  Now Macron is trying to remind Europe and the world that Franch also counts with respect to military capability.

Regrettably the French Constitution makes its presidents kings in all but name for 5-year terms. They cannot be thrown out onto the street where they belong when they lose all credibility and have popularity ratings of 20% or less like Macron.

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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.

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  1. He can vow all he wants, France is riddled with debt & discontent.

    They’ll be lucky to sustain what’s left of the decaying military they currently have, just like the UK.

    The recruitment and hardware figures puts a lie to all of NATO’s brave talk. No-one want to fight for these regimes by choice, and a draft would be an utter farce.

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