Comments on: AFRICA https://www.jeantaquet.com/africa/ Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:40:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jean https://www.jeantaquet.com/africa/#comment-61 Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:40:01 +0000 https://www.jeantaquet.com/?p=3966#comment-61 In reply to Ryan Werner.

As a French citizen, I feel entitled to state this about the French president. I am not American and I do not qualify any member of the Cabinet, including the president. The December issue’s title is “appetite for destruction.” I question the motivation to destroy the inner structure of the USA as a Federal country, if there is no clear plan for rebuilding something one can hope would be better. One can see this as a criticism of the American president or not.

]]> By: Ryan Werner https://www.jeantaquet.com/africa/#comment-60 Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:03:59 +0000 https://www.jeantaquet.com/?p=3966#comment-60 I had to laugh when I read your comment, ” How much more ridiculous can French politics be? We can trust the French president to go even lower than that!” Oh, if U.S. politics were only that ridiculous, and the U.S. president went only that low. I have long maintained that the true national sport in France is promoting a presidential candidate as a savior the day before the election and then berating them for their atrocious performance for the entire five years after they are elected. The French need to see their gripes about their president in a much larger context. How happy I would be if my other president were only as bad as Macron. MDR!

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