Francois Hollande

US negotiations with Mexico will be tough but open and pragmatic

The Duran - 2017-01-27 - Original post - Cached copy

A crucial element in respecting the sovereignty of foreign states is an implicit understanding that the decisions a state might make during a negotiation process, may not always be that which is desired by the other partner.
Despite an exaggerated response by the mainstream media, the current open negotiations between the US and Mexico over Trump’s border wall represent everything a robust bilateral negotiation should be. The words exchanged between the US and Mexico have thus far been frank and the various quid-pro-quos exchanged have been realistic.

French contrition…it does exist

The Duran - 2017-01-08 - Original post - Cached copy

A delegation of French MPs have toured Aleppo where they’ve inspected the destruction caused by years of terrorist occupation.
Hearing a French opinion on the internal matters of Syria is historically dubious at best. It was the French mandate rule over Syria in the aftermath of the First World War that sowed the seeds of political instability that haunted Syria from the 1940s up to the Corrective Movement of Hafez al-Assad in 1970.

If EU leaders can be so wrong on Russia & Syria, no wonder the bloc is in crisis

Aletho News - 2016-10-22 - Original post - Cached copy

By Finian Cunningham | RT | October 21, 2016 Russophobic rants by some European Union leaders and their willful distortion of events in Syria is a reflection of why the 28-member bloc is careering toward disaster. We are witnessing a crisis of appallingly inept leadership. German, British and French leaders were among the most hawkish voices […]

No-Fly Zone Madness

Dissident Voice - 2016-10-16 - Original post - Cached copy

Tuesday’s House of Commons debate in Britain was filled with the hollow anguish of impotence, fresh with statements about Russian war criminality tossed about like freshly made blinis. Ever easy to point to, Russian support for a regime which Western powers wish to remove, at the expense of further catastrophe, has accelerated the ruthless disposition of the conflict. Peace talks have died in utero; the agents’ actions lack conviction and they pursue, instead, the moral outrage that only impotence engenders.

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