Former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage says the French have something 'quite serious' to say about the U.S. perception on the world stage
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Rachel PETE is hosting.
Why wouldnt you watch
PETE well see
I will try not to mess it up
on to this story as well.
Secretary of State, Antony
Blinken will travel to Paris
this week in an attempt to patch
up Americas. Strained
relationship with France comes
AI, had mid criticism over our
countrys submarine deal with
Australia and the controversial
withdrawal from Afghanistan,
french media even running a
cover story, one magazine
entitled
the suicide of America.
The magazine quote: blamed
Americas retreat from
Afghanistan on quote a woke
dictatorship and questioned
whether the american Empire is
collapsing
here to react. Former member of
European Parliament, Nigel
Farage,
so great to see you
were not used to seeing France
critiquing our culture.
They are quite robustly right
now.
What do you make of this?
Is America exporting woke
politics across the pond
and are they right
good morning?
Well, of course, the French are
always quite critical of the
Americans. In the sense they can
never forgive you for saving
them in World WAR Ii.
An odd piece of Galic psychology-
I just dont know
so it is not easy
to begin with the submarine deal
which has been struck by the
USA, the UK, with Australia, that
is, to give Australia 21st
century submarines with nuclear
reactors in the back, not the
diesel ones. The French wanted to
give
theyre a little bit sore.
However, when it comes to the
point about woke and cancel
culture. Yes, im afraid this
stuff was invented in the USA
and it is being exported to
Western Europe.
The further criticism about
theyre asking a question is
this: the end of the American
Empire lets be frank about
this bidens calamitous
withdrawal from Afghanistan
removed America from the world
stage, and with that much
respect that people had for the
country.
I think on that point the last
two points. The French actually
got something quite serious to
say:
PETE, I think im missing it
too
youre saying the reverberating
effect of what happened in
Afghanistan has shaken our
allies to the core.
This whole belief, America, will
see things through well, be
there.
Yes
PETE, they said Donald Trump
would blow up alliances,
didnt Joe Biden. Instead,
Trump would never have left
unless a proper deal had been
struck between the afghan army
and the Taliban
that wasnt in place.
So yes youre quite right, it was
Donald Trump that was going to
ruin. Nato t was Donald Trump
that was going to make America
isolationist.
He did the opposite.
He was out there campaigning for
peace, the Abraham Accords,
the fact he visited crossed the
line. North Korea showed you. He
wasnt a warmonger president,
trying in foreign policy terms
to do good things with american
power,
now Biden unilaterally withdrawn
from Afghanistan, but frankly
from the world.
I say this to you on the morning
when we have learned there was a
very large incursion of chinese
communist jets over Taiwan.
Yesterday,
you can see the world is not in
a great place and we now dont
have under Bidens Premiership
the leader. We so desperately
desperately need.
Pete. So well said, Nigel,
the continent of Europe gave us
socialism, and we gave you wokism.
Transcript generated on 2021-10-08.