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To: TobagoJack who wrote (163796)	10/19/2020 4:32:01 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 217815

French in Canada are very different.. abandoned many times over by France.. who still thinks they are hoity toity better.. so much so that I still here this bullshit about Parisian French.. Parisian French is fcuking Paris SLANG.. PERIOD.. Mr. Charles de Gaule fanned separatist flames.. an arsehole like Mr. Trump.. Not understanding I guess the stature he held to many.. Anyway.. yes we are different.. Quebec NOT INTERESTED in preserving French culture a la France.. but rather Quebecois culture.. a very different animal with a similar language, not as disparate as Mando/Canto.. but definitely different,,

To: TobagoJack who wrote (163796)	10/19/2020 6:13:47 PM
From: sense	Respond to of 217815

Most of Macron's recent choices seem fully consistent with his beliefs, and almost perfectly rational... considered individually. Taken all together... it does seem he's suddenly unable to find a fight he doesn't want to be seen to be a central part of... which might prompt a bit of poking at things to figure out what's driving him to be increasingly aggressive... I don't think you have to look far... Macron (nose in air) has been making a range of anti-Trump statements for a long time... some more veiled than others. But, starting late last year ( December 2019)... Trump started poking back a bit more. "France" thinks Trump needs to "be more engaged" ( August 2020)... while doing what France wants the U.S. to do... in Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iran... NATO... a pretty long laundry list of criticisms being leveled... where Trump's different idea greatly gauls ;<) Macron... who has assumed Trump was just a rank amateur whose choices would naturally ensure failure, without the support of Macron providing "direction" of American engagement. The Brits might phrase that as "exceeding your remit"... (Financial Times: a show of restraint makes you look dispassionate, morally fastidious and careful not to exceed your remit.) But, as the restraint is shed, and more direct action is taken, Americans will refer to the same tendency as "getting out ahead of your skis". With the recent announcement of the success won in the long fruitless search for peace in the Middle East... Trump now having notched up four nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize... Macron seems to have begun to panic. Now, it seems, to prove himself right about Trump's failures of leadership... Macron is being forced to step up and lead himself, where Trump has "failed"... the effort resulting in Macron now acting in the ways and in those places that he was demanding Trump must act... The American view of that set of choices being made apparent... "chasing the puck"... Suddenly, France, desperate to not be left out, sees itself as the essential missing element, so aligning France in opposition to Turkey's aggression in Armenian Nagorno-Karabach, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, and the entire eastern Med... suddenly makes great sense ? Hmmm. But, the most puzzling... is his quite sudden and rabidly pursued attempted obstruction of Brexit... based on the absurdity of claiming French "rights" to control access to fishing in an independent Britain's EEZ waters? Macron appears to have snapped under all the pressure he's putting on himself.... while "leading" the EU to oppose Boris Johnson's refusal to submit to crazy French demands. But, you really can't stop someone doing what they're fully in the right to do... by insisting they do it, or else ? Macron's "defense" of French fishing rights in British waters... virtually ensures those "rights" will be lost. The rest of the EU seems it finally figured out, this week... that Macron is at least one brick shy of a full load...