The left agrees on opposition to American imperialism, however divides on the response | EUROtoday

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The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, in Paris, December 22, 2025.

If the United States fascinated him, François Mitterrand, as a superb man of the left, was no much less a critic of the American ally. In The Last Mitterrand (Plon, 1997), the journalist Georges-Marc Benamou reported this confidence from the previous socialist president: “France doesn’t know it, but we are at war with America. » A war, he said, “permanent, vital, economic, a war without death apparently” going through Americans “voracious”Who “want undivided power over the world”.

Thirty years have handed because the disappearance of the socialist and the left has not completed with its aversion in the direction of American energy. A mistrust which is renewed within the mild of Donald Trump’s intervention in Venezuela and his repeated threats of ” take “ Greenland, autonomous territory, however underneath the sovereignty of Denmark, a member nation of the European Union and NATO. In an interview with Release Thursday January 8, former President François Hollande deplored the “heartbreak” between Europeans and Americans since Trump’s re-election: “They understand that the United States is now not their allies, and that they’re detaching themselves from the safety of their continent, it’s an upheaval. »

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