United States - Europe: hugs between Trump and Macron, and a divorce at the UN
ANALYSIS - While Emmanuel Macron and the American president were showing off their friendship at the White House, the United States was allying itself with Russia at the United Nations, thus confirming Washington's change of camp.
On the one hand, there was the White House theater of the absurd, a puppet show performed live in the Oval Office between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron . An overplayed friendship between the two presidents, laughter, pats on the back, winks and a lot of political communication. Some illusions too, on the French side, fueled by the firmness with which President Macron reminded his American counterpart of certain facts , such as the Russian nature of the aggression against Ukraine, and the true amount of European aid to Ukraine, greater than that of the United States. Despite the assaults of politeness, and Emmanuel Macron's skill in repeating the principles of Europe to his counterpart, this much-publicized meeting was nothing more than a fool's game.
Because the reality, the tragic history of the new world, the real politics, was being written the same day in another forum, that of the UN, around the great round table of the Security Council, in New York . And this time, not…
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