Oldest Alliance Back On Again |
Admittedly France is pursuing its own agenda as the ex colonial power in Syria, which just happens to coincide with that of the Americans, but the US was so desperate for a fig leaf of support, as to not care about that …. why they have even restored ‘French Fries' ('Chips' in the UK) to the Whitehouse menu – they were renamed ‘American Fries’ for a while.
So no longer the "cheese-eating surrender monkeys", and leading member of "Axis of Weasel" of the mid 1990’s, the French are now welcomed to the top table, while poor Britain struggles to find any sort of meaningful role …. even branded by the Russians as "just a small island, that no one pays any attention to anymore" … we find out that unless we are prepared to use force, then we are nothing, even our UN Security Council seat is being looked at.
So the law of 'unexpected consequences' strikes again. David Cameron is the PM who has cut the UK’s military to that of a defence force, rather than an army – and the backstabber Ed Milliband (who has previous on breaking promises – just ask his brother), takes a gamble to embarrass the government, for some local political gain, and suddenly Britain's fragile grip on the top table of world politics is looking decidedly shaky …. c'est la guerre as the French like to say.
France has always acted in what it perceives is its own best interests, but then so do most nations. The USA and UK have done nothing to stop corruption, cronyism and dictatorships in Sub Saharan Africa. Why? Because there’s either no OIL (Zimbabwe springs to mind) and or the tyrants are playing ball with us on trade. France on the other hand sees its role in the western world much diminished by the "Anglo Saxon's" but refuses to lie down when its one of its own ex colonies e.g. Syria, and other areas, such as its ex 'African Colonies'.
ReplyDeleteThe UK is now in a period of final 'retrenchment' and is losing the military capacity to act on its own, or even participate in others actions. So we will see more of these episodes where the UK can't or won't act - either because its in Muslim areas (and Muslim 'voters' don't want it) or because its deemed an 'illegal' war by some other group or other.
Get used to it becoming the norm.
Your probably right - or not far wrong. Thanks for the comment
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