Zak From Greenland, joined Sep 2003, 1993 posts, RR: 8 Posted (5 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 888 times:
last monday, at a lunch with merkel in meeseburg, sarkozy offered the german government a so far unique partnership.
he offered germany to have authority over the french force de frappe, effectively giving germany and france a joint nuclear deterrant. merkel and steinmeier both declined due to germany being in the nuclear non proliferation treaty.
the way i judge this, is that this was political symbolism. sarkozy knew that it would not be accepted, but given the way diplomacy works, offering another country shared authority over the last stance in a strategical arsenal of a country, his message gets across: a) france has no more fear of ze germans and b) our countries are to be seen as unit, especially in regard to international politics
i welcome this very much. i have not expected such a visionary statement and unprecedented statement before. i salute you, sarko.
AirTran737 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 3639 posts, RR: 12 Reply 1, posted (5 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 878 times:
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Klaus From Germany, joined Jul 2001, 20860 posts, RR: 55 Reply 4, posted (5 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 823 times:
Quoting Gkirk (Reply 3): Is Bush now planning to invade France and Germany after hearing this?
I wouldn't be surprised. But I guess somebody finally told him that the US troops are already here...
Sarko's still in stunt mode, apparently. It will be interesting to watch how he'll be faring when he's forced to actually tackle the very real problems France actually has instead of merely putting on a show.
JGPH1A From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (5 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 822 times:
Quoting Gkirk (Reply 3): Is Bush now planning to invade France and Germany after hearing this?
I thought he'd been planning this for years - it's his "October Surprise" for next year. He intends to fire all UMP members from the civil service and hand over France's huge multi-billion dollar cheese industry to Halliburton. Of course, nobody in France will notice, and simply assume that the tourists are late this year, but at least they came.
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