“The silence of the French president on Venezuela risks sounding like an admission of impotence” | EUROtoday

DFirst an extended silence. And then a submit on the social community “dictatorship”hoping that the “coming transition” both “democratic”. But not a phrase on the phrases of the American intervention, which tramples on all the principles of worldwide regulation, and undoubtedly additionally these of American federal regulation, a placing illustration of the predatory imperialism of Donald Trump, which strikes from threats to actions. The French president was not the one one on the European scene to be much less forthcoming, removed from the response of the President of the Spanish authorities, Pedro Sanchez, who “firmly condemned” the American operation: its authorities “will not recognize (…) an intervention that violates international law”as he had not recognized the regime of Nicolas Maduro, he declared on X. Clarté.

Emmanuel Macron’s reaction, breaking with French diplomatic tradition, sparked strong criticism from political leaders, particularly on the left. But it was former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin who, on Sunday on BFM-TV, had the harshest words, denouncing a reaction “blind, unaware of realities and irresponsible”lined with a “logic of submission and vassalization” : “We are denying our own historical identity. » The one who represented Jacques Chirac before the United Nations Security Council in 2003, to say no to American intervention in Iraq, believes that Mr. Macron has spared Mr. Trump so as not to alienate the latter in the Ukrainian issue, on the eve of a decisive meeting. But he judged that “not reacting to what is happening in Venezuela means weakening oneself in the negotiation on Ukraine”. This is also what François Hollande thinks, according to which his successor “doesn’t want to get angry with Trump” in the hope of influencing his choices. But, regrets the former president to the World, “It’s not understanding anything about Trump”Who “only respect the strong”. But, he decides, “Macron is not in his eyes”.

Before the president’s post, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, had sounded a different tune, affirming that the American operation « counterv[enai]t » At “principle of non-use of force, which is the basis of international law”. “France recalls that no lasting political solution can be imposed from the outside and that sovereign peoples alone decide their future”he wrote on

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