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French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Europe to assert itself on the world stage, saying it is time to start acting like a "power".

In the face of growing threats from China, Russia and now the US, he told a group of European newspapers that the continent faced a "wake-up call".

"Are we ready to become a power? This is the question in the field of economy and finance, in defence and security, and in our democratic systems.

"In another era we might have said it is the moment to 'assume our majority'," he said ahead of an EU summit in Brussels later this week.

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[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 75 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Indeed we should. So long as this doesn't mean that we move towards being isolationists, imperialists or Nazi's.

[–] homes@piefed.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You guys do have a bit of a habit with those things…

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The first thing a Global Power Europe does is invade and colonize North Africa.

[–] homes@piefed.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] homes@piefed.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I need to rewatch that show

[–] ZeroEightOneFive@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ZeroEightOneFive@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago

Found it- Arrested Development.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Rome 2, this time they have nukes

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[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 43 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Does Europe have any power? If yes, then Ukraine is the perfect place to demonstrate it. Imagine how powerful 1 million artillery shells per month would look. A hundred tanks and planes per month would look powerful too. Thousand missiles per month might send the powerful message too.

Talking and urging isn't powerful.

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[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Ok prove it by stopping Russia from slaughtering your own fucking neighbor

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Thats what they have been doing for years now. The EU is the main source of equipment and funding for Ukraine.

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

But were are they going to buy cheap gas?

Explanation: France is one of the biggest importer of Russian gas in EU, right after Putin allies Hungary and Slovakia.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

That means cutting ties with Israel and the Zionist oligarchs trying to implement mass surveillance. They don’t seem to understand that basic reality though because they keep trying to force the digital ID through Zionist Larry Ellisons company Oracle onto their populace.

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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 20 points 1 month ago

Long past time. United we stand, divided we fall.

[–] TrivialBetaState@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

No. They are not ready. If all your computers and phones "phone home" with "home" being your adversary's country (that's how USA deals with Europe in the last year), then you cannot call yourself a world power. Most PCs in Europe use Windows and MacOS. Almost all phones are either Android or iOS. And even if they managed to replace all the software with locally developed Linux, all recent (last 20 years) x86 PCs have either Intel Management Engine or AMD Security Technology. If they chose to make intensive efforts to replace their systems, computers and phones, it would take at least a decade to achieve this. And even then, the US would likely be able to penetrate their systems. It's so much easier to yield to the Emperor of the Western World for the perennially submissive European serfs.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago

RISC-V ftw!

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 month ago

And nearly all US computer hardware is manufactured in China. What's your point?

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[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

I know how much the French hate Macron (with good reasons), but you can't really argue against these points. Some things gotta happen. Federilization, another voting system etc. Otherwise EU will be undermined and destroyed by the superpowers and become a lot of small versailstates. We cant find in this world, when bound on hands and feet by a few orbans here and there..

[–] amsphear@chatgptjailbreak.tech 6 points 1 month ago

I'd much rather see Europe rule the world than the US.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He's right.

They need to focus on making every European nation a nuclear power. You can't trust the US when we're on our second consecutive brain-damaged president in a row.

[–] ParadeDuGrotesque@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, what a fantastic idea: let's give the Orban's and the Meloni's of Europe (stable geniuses one and all) things that go boom and make a nice mushroom cloud.

Fantastic.

We already have two nuclear powers in Europe.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They need to focus on making every European nation a nuclear power.

The power of nuclear weapons comes from being used in a retaliation strike. For that a submarine is needed. Soon space weapons are needed to disable the counter-measures.

Just 10 bombs and 10 bombers is not enough.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

would you give hungary the bomb?

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[–] HrabiaVulpes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Problem is - if you look at how "World Powers" behave, do you really wanna live in such countries?

Which Europeans would just love to invade neighbors like Russia and USA?

Which Europeans would love to deregulate their countries in order to enrich elites like USA?

Or perhaps which Europeans would love to live under state surveillance while their country buys out foreign infrastructure like China?

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I really like Macron in his foreign policy mode, it just a shame he pissed the bed by opening a loophole that will be abused if ever an amoral president gets in power.

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