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11 years 11 months ago #235
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"Straight and narrow is the path."
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What I've read, it's a light armoured brigade which will constitute the capacity of initial reaction...Okay, but reaction to what? :smile:
Maybe they're like the UN
Maybe they're like the UN
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11 years 11 months ago - 11 years 11 months ago #236
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Well, this French/German brigade was built in 1987. It was the will of German chancelor Helmut Kohl and French president François Mitterrand to make "a significant act" to seal the German/French friendship. Well, it was in 1987, the politic and geopolitic context was different and water has flowed under the bridge.
In my opinion, this unit was first of all a symbol, and the "problem", if there's a problem, is that it never evolve and remained nothing else than a symbol. Of course, a military power remains an instrument serving a politic will, but is there any common politic will in Europe today...?
About this issue, I fully agree with the German journalist Günther Nonnenmacher when he says in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "In reality, such a unit would have sense only if it became the military instrument of a common foreign policy. What it could not be question, as proved it lately Libya, Mali or Syria. France still considers as a power capable of intervening on the world geopolitical scene, within the framework of its means. Germany, it, self-imposed a " culture of military restraint " which curls the incapacity to participate in the Alliance. The end of the French-German brigade would thus be certainly regrettable, but logic of a political point of view."*
*Translation of the post from Courrier International
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Well, this French/German brigade was built in 1987. It was the will of German chancelor Helmut Kohl and French president François Mitterrand to make "a significant act" to seal the German/French friendship. Well, it was in 1987, the politic and geopolitic context was different and water has flowed under the bridge.
In my opinion, this unit was first of all a symbol, and the "problem", if there's a problem, is that it never evolve and remained nothing else than a symbol. Of course, a military power remains an instrument serving a politic will, but is there any common politic will in Europe today...?
About this issue, I fully agree with the German journalist Günther Nonnenmacher when he says in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "In reality, such a unit would have sense only if it became the military instrument of a common foreign policy. What it could not be question, as proved it lately Libya, Mali or Syria. France still considers as a power capable of intervening on the world geopolitical scene, within the framework of its means. Germany, it, self-imposed a " culture of military restraint " which curls the incapacity to participate in the Alliance. The end of the French-German brigade would thus be certainly regrettable, but logic of a political point of view."*
*Translation of the post from Courrier International
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11 years 11 months ago - 11 years 11 months ago #238
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Just remember 1991/1999 and the Yugoslavs wars, the most murderous conflicts in Europe since WW2, and the farce of the European authorities on this subject, while the massacres took place daily and while TVs broadcast these looped images. You know what? The so called European common defence policy is dead there. And i add, stillborn.
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Just remember 1991/1999 and the Yugoslavs wars, the most murderous conflicts in Europe since WW2, and the farce of the European authorities on this subject, while the massacres took place daily and while TVs broadcast these looped images. You know what? The so called European common defence policy is dead there. And i add, stillborn.
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11 years 11 months ago - 11 years 11 months ago #239
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Hats off to the Royal Navy rescue that saved today five French seamen in difficulties in the Channel.
The Panamera, a French trawler from Paimpol, north of Brittany, alerted today at 01:35 AM the French sea rescue Cross Corsen about a leak onboard. The incident being situated in the British sector, Cross Corsen alerted the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre of Falmouth that ordered the intervention of British Rescue teams.
The intervention took place between 03:15 AM and 03:40 AM, by serious weather conditions (wind about 100 km/h and waves about 7 to 9 meters high). The Panamera has sunk but the five seamen are alive. They should come back in Brittany this afternoon.
Good job, Royal Navy. What a pity that everything in Europe is not managed in the same spirit.
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Hats off to the Royal Navy rescue that saved today five French seamen in difficulties in the Channel.
The Panamera, a French trawler from Paimpol, north of Brittany, alerted today at 01:35 AM the French sea rescue Cross Corsen about a leak onboard. The incident being situated in the British sector, Cross Corsen alerted the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre of Falmouth that ordered the intervention of British Rescue teams.
The intervention took place between 03:15 AM and 03:40 AM, by serious weather conditions (wind about 100 km/h and waves about 7 to 9 meters high). The Panamera has sunk but the five seamen are alive. They should come back in Brittany this afternoon.
Good job, Royal Navy. What a pity that everything in Europe is not managed in the same spirit.
Credits: DR
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11 years 11 months ago - 11 years 11 months ago #240
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Maybe the last one for me in this topic, lads. My main source of local information, the newspaper Ouest France, has just decided to switch in a paying formula and to eliminate all the subjects and the forums which were slightly too critical. Now, there is nothing more than a very clean and well disinfected information, to make the people sleeping a bit more, and also a novelty, a compulsory identification to post a comment...
But given the way which this country takes, that does not even amaze me...
Replied by Nikita on topic What's up at home today...?
Maybe the last one for me in this topic, lads. My main source of local information, the newspaper Ouest France, has just decided to switch in a paying formula and to eliminate all the subjects and the forums which were slightly too critical. Now, there is nothing more than a very clean and well disinfected information, to make the people sleeping a bit more, and also a novelty, a compulsory identification to post a comment...
But given the way which this country takes, that does not even amaze me...
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