Re <<Best and Brightest strike again>>
... I supposed 'it', the meaning of their mirth, all depends on whether 'they', the <<Best and Brightest>> intended to or now allow themselves to be bum-rushed into a war against Russia for the sake of USA / UK / Ukraine / Poland / Lithuania / Latvia / Estonia / etc etc
We shall soon find out, for Germany must choose.
In the meantime the French are choosing in coming runoff election, and lets see how the jean-luc voters vote during the runoff between Macron and Le Pen.
Assuming for a moment Le Pen does not win, can the resulting Macron-led governing authorities hold the show together and deliver the French nation to the front lines of Russia.
But for the luck of my antecedents being a maritime family, they did not have to fight the Russians on land, an important outcome, for me personally, and for the Coconut and the Jack. Fighting the Russians is not in our micro coding, for better or worse.
French election
france le pen russia
In the meantime I find the French have good sense of humour and pragmatic to boot, a good combination, per black cats and white cats and mouse, and debate on fictitious matters having no basis in reality
Go figure
IOW, the French electorates must choose either wastrels or losers in the runoff. Let us watch.
express.co.uk
Macron's army choose uniforms manufactured in China over ones made in France – ‘Treason!’
FRENCH ARMY clothing produced in China has been ordered instead of uniform manufactured in France, according to one presidential candidate.
By Aleks Phillips
21:36, Thu, Nov 4, 2021 | UPDATED: 22:32, Thu, Nov 4, 2021
Arnaud Montebourg said on Thursday that the French army preferred a Chinese manufacturer for a jumper contract over Regain, a French company which already has several contracts with the military, during a visit to their factory. The Ministry of the Armed Forces denied that this was the case, according to France Bleu.
Montebourg said on Thursday that the French army preferred a Chinese manufacturer for jumpers (Image: Getty)
Reacting to the allegation, MEP Gilbert Collard tweeted: “The French army prefers a Chinese manufacturer to a French company for its jumpers: treason!”
Mr Montebourg said: “The company lost an order from our army, which preferred to supply itself with products made abroad.”
Laurent Brunas, manager at Regain, said: “In France, the minute cost of a person working in the garment industry is around 0.50 euro cents.
Montebourg: 'our army preferred to supply itself with product made abroad' (Image: Getty)
'In France, the minute cost of a person working in the garment industry is around 0.50 euro cents' (Image: Regain/Instagram)
In Portugal, it is 0.30. In Tunisia and Romania it is 0.13. And in China, the cost per minute is 0.05 euro cents. So China is ten times cheaper than France.
He added: “There are products today which are not at all expensive, which are of very low quality and every year you have to buy new ones. When buyers take into account the cost of ownership, they realise that it is an investment and that the products have a life span of four to five years.”
The Ministry for the Armed Forces responded that the army jumpers were now being manufactured by two French companies, Saint James and Leo Minor.
Regain is a French company which already has several contracts with the military (Image: Regain/Instagram)
“There has never been a contract with Chinese subcontractors, neither on the manufacture, nor on the origin of the textile,” the ministry said.
It uses 78 percent French suppliers for the clothing of its soldiers, it added.
This did not stop other French political figures reacting strongly to the claim.
Marine Le Pen, another French presidential candidate, tweeted: “With Macron, our taxes are subsidising Chinese imports and relocations.
“It is time for French taxpayers' money to support the French economy”. |
