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French Presidential Hopeful: UK Becoming US Vassal State

French Presidential Hopeful: UK Becoming US Vassal State
French Presidential Hopeful: UK Becoming US Vassal State

Britain is becoming subservient to a United States that will be extremely difficult to cooperate with judging by President Donald Trump’s “serious and worrying” first acts, French presidential candidate, Emmanuel Macron, said on Friday.

British Prime Minister Theresa May, who held talks with Trump on Friday, wants a renewal of the “special relationship” between London and Washington at a time her conservative government redraws its relationship with Europe.

“Britain lived in equilibrium with Europe,” Macron told France Culture radio. “But now it is becoming a vassal state, meaning it is becoming the junior partner of the United States,” Reuters reported.

French opinion polls show Macron, a former investment banker running as an independent in this spring’s presidential election, closing in on the two frontrunners, conservative candidate Francois Fillon and far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

Macron said Trump’s early policy moves suggested the United States might become a destabilizing force on the world stage.

“What’s happening today with Trump’s first statements and choices is extremely serious and worrying,” Macron said. “It’s firstly a choice that it will be an America that provokes ... an America that destabilizes things that have been built for decades.”

Macron has previously said he was sure Trump would maintain close ties with the European Union, but on Friday he appeared to concede this may no longer be the case.

“It signifies that the US will no longer be in a position to co-organize globalization and be the world’s policeman with the European Union,” the former economy minister said.

“The unpredictable choices, the outbursts and the inward-looking United States of Trump no longer guarantee Europe’s security.”

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