'Europeans Can't Think of Building a Future Without the Americans'

[DonViejo]

France’s ambassador to the United States on Donald Trump and the future of the West.

By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE July 04, 2017

President Donald Trump isn’t the leader of the free world, says French Ambassador Gérard Araud.

These days, he says, no one is.

And as Trump heads to Europe Wednesday for his first G-20 meeting as president and first face-to-face encounter with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the world needs to figure out what to do next.

“We have to define what is the free world, and today, there is no—the expression of ‘leader,’ I think, doesn’t really doesn’t fit the question,” Araud told me, in an interview for POLITICO’s Off Message podcast in his office at the French Embassy, a large, modernist complex across the street from the Georgetown Hospital.

“This world order, the traditional liberal world order, is more or less undermined, really, or looks injured. Where is the United States? And that’s a question which is on the table,” Araud said. “I think it’s impossible to move on without America, and I think also that the United States really can’t let the world move on.”

more + recording of the interview:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/04/europeans-cant-think-of-building-a-future-without-the-americans-215334

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. WE must be dealt with as we once dealt with Libya/Gaddafi

or as we dealt with Pol Pot, Idi Amin, etc.

We are a threat to the human race as is Russia.

Now you could say we always were given our weapons, but now we are working with Russia/USSR or the KGB, so we now must be seen as an enemy of freedom and the human race.

All because a woman had a private server.

[David__77]

2. That's unfortunate.

The countries of Europe, I hope, can maintain their sovereignty without the US providing direction.