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En disant “nos intérêts d’abord et qu’importent les autres!”

Nov 11th, 2018 11:37 am | By

Macron used his Armistice Day speech to reject nationalism (and, tacitly, to spit in Trump’s eye).

His words during a solemn Armistice Day ceremony under overcast skies at the foot of the Arc de Triomphe in the heart of the French capital were intended for a global audience. But they also represented a pointed rebuke to President Trump, Russian President Vladi­mir Putin and others among the more than 60 world leaders in attendance.

Speaking in French, Macron emphasized [that] a global order based on liberal values is worth defending against those who have sought to disrupt that system. The millions of soldiers who died in the Great War fought to defend the “universal values” of France, he said, and to

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