What do Balkans think of French president Macron?

He is a dictator and other European autocrats love him. While liberals are being hypocrates like always about loving a dictator just because he speaks against russia

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alkorisno@reddit

The dude is basiclly a new king of france so western elite loves him

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Honestly, he’s the perfect representation of centrism : Hold power all to yourself like a stubborn mule before you’re forced to do compromises ; so of course you compromise with the (far-)right to make sure that the left can’t do anything while blaming them for the economic problems (this will definitely not boost other rightist and far-rightist parties). Which is how now both the leftist and rightist political spectrum dislikes him nowadays.

At least he’s competent internationally we can admit that.

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Auric_Le_Gaulois@reddit

His political camp is at left

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Significant-Ad-7182@reddit

He doesn't like us and the feeling is mutual.

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Guilty-Shoulder-9214@reddit

Idk. After what Erdogans bodyguards did in DC, I’d have blown the plane out of the sky or had drawn inspiration from Transylvania and had the guards crucified on the white house lawn while making Erdogan watch before sending him home.

With the recent SCOTUS precedent that the president can do no legal wrong while acting as president, I’d be even more embolden to draw and quarter any leader who directly or indirectly laid a hand on public citizens exercising their legal rights. Obama was a little bitch for doing nothing about it.

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LlamaFromTheAlps@reddit

How come?

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Significant-Ad-7182@reddit

He isn't forming alliances specifically with our neighbors just because he likes them. Turkey is a competitor to French interests in Africa.

We fuck with his interests in Africa he fucks with our interest in the Aegean, Karabakh etc...

Most people in Turkey that know him, knows that and views him as a Frenchie that fetishize about their old Empire. Like Europeans know of Erdogan and his fetish of Ottoman Empire.

I personally view him leading the EU army thing/project rather suspiciously.

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happy_mood990@reddit

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PotentialBass3073@reddit

And what about it? Why do you care what happens between 2 consenting adults

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Guilty-Shoulder-9214@reddit

Probably because of the insinuations that come when it’s not just a random case of two people meeting, where there is a major age difference, but rather, a situation where the one is ending up with a primary school classmates mother whom he had contact with as a minor, and knew for decades.

It’s not an immediate, “she molested him” type deal, but it certainly brings up such questions as to whether or not there’s a history. And honestly? If the sex was swapped and this were a Woody Allen situation, people would probably be asking those questions more.

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lastethere@reddit

Your geopolitical awareness is rather limited.

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Delicious-Gap1744@reddit

I don't blame him at all.

If there's anyone to blame it's her.

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Possible-Handle6473@reddit

Hey the man likes milfs it's hard to blame him

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Appropriate_Status42@reddit

It's a GILF at this point.

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BeginningFrame9456@reddit

He likes grannys. It's easy to blame him.

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RookOfEdo@reddit

You mean dilfs if we are to believe candance 💀

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pythonski@reddit

Weird thing is… they actually have bigger age difference than these two.

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BeginningFrame9456@reddit

Lol that's wild

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TurkOmbre@reddit

A president who gives false hope to Greece, and who thinks he's the modern-day Napoleon

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SametaX_1131@reddit

his way of speaking is too artificial.

No different from your average french politician i must say

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DimitrisDaskalakis@reddit

To be expected from living with your teacher

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DoctorNo1661@reddit

What's artificial about his way of speaking ?

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TurkOmbre@reddit

I get the impression that he memorized everything in advance and is regurgitating the prepared speech.

And when he speaks, he moves around a lot to appear more expressive (I think); he accompanies his speech with unnatural gestures.

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throwymao@reddit

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Extension_Support_22@reddit

Not from the Balkans or europe either, but he’s ridiculous, which suits the french well, they are cowards and ridiculous, their country is a shithole, ugly nasty and irrelevant, their culture is a big joke, they’re luck to have had europe and US support and help to provide money otherwise they’re broke and completely unable to manage their shithole, france is a small flat ugly country with basically one big city and that’s about it, that is ugly nasty smelly and filled with migrants.

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s_zlikovski@reddit

Granny fucker

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YourNormaMinecrafter@reddit

Considering how france has become...

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Svarog1984@reddit

This thread may be about Macron, but it perfectly showcases why the Balkans are so disfunctional.

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No_Designer_8203@reddit

Domestic violence is the first thing that comes to my mind.

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drjet196@reddit

It wasn‘t even domestic. It was abroad.

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NegativeMammoth2137@reddit

It was domestic. Vietnam is famously an integral part of France

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CocoonNapper@reddit

Dam - the first comment hit hard, this one did as well 😂

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YoucanPHthisD@reddit

Smartest serb

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DoctorNo1661@reddit

Lmao

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National_Way8389@reddit

I am Romanian and I really like Macron. He tells things exactly how they are and I think he is one the that understands the most that a divided Europe cannot compete with US and China.

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Faust29A@reddit

Marionet.

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Symbiome@reddit

Gay!

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StunningComment6064@reddit

Macron is Ok if we compare him with Merz, Meloni, Von der Layen and Kallas company, let’s not talk about Trump. He doesn’t lick US asses, and that’s great.

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PlayPob_Champion@reddit

Don't put Meloni in same category with this assholes.

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DM_ME_SALAH_GIFS@reddit

Meloni is worse.

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PlayPob_Champion@reddit

Why?

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DM_ME_SALAH_GIFS@reddit

Far right.

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PlayPob_Champion@reddit

This is not bad in days like this. She is making Italy safer.

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Several-Zombies6547@reddit

She is actually better regarding the topics of Iran and Israel, which is surprising given her political spectrum.

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Massive_Emu6682@reddit

A really funny way to state how bad the Europe's situation really is right now lol.

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sajpank@reddit

My good friend that lives in Paris is literally telling me the opposite. He is so deep in the Trumps ass with his tounge he will probably choke in ut. Macron is capitalist fascist. Fuck Macron.

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palladium2@reddit

Didn't Merz say the war in Iran humiliated the US?

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Time_Trail@reddit

yeah but he only changed his tune because he was becoming the outlier in supporting the US

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palladium2@reddit

I see.

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SOHONEYSAME@reddit (OP)

& Sanchez.

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crivycouriac@reddit

His wife was born a man

Apparently

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Several-Zombies6547@reddit

Because a lunatic podcaster said so?

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O_945@reddit

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justuniqueusername@reddit

Why would anyone believe in this fake?

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crivycouriac@reddit

Actually, I watched all episodes of Becoming Brigitte and the arguments do sound convincing

Nevertheless, I will wait for the court’s rulings in regards to it

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PainOk1877@reddit

instead of grannyfu...he is grandpafu.. then hahahahahaha

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No_Coffee_5217@reddit

Just another Nepo-Baby. Funniest thing is when he made pictures of him boxing to appear more to poor people. Classic Rich Daddy economist

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Usernamenotta@reddit

Macron, Macaron, Moron. Coincidence? I think NOT!

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AdvantageStatus4635@reddit

our bro

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Fred_Neecheh@reddit

Why

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AdvantageStatus4635@reddit

big friend of president Vučić, especially after signing of Rafales contract we can see warming up in France-Serbia relations

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Apprehensive-Box2481@reddit

he has your idol vucic by the balls

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AdvantageStatus4635@reddit

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ahh that blockaders

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SOHONEYSAME@reddit (OP)

same!!😍😍

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UpstairsDot6982@reddit

You want us to get banned? he is fa**ot, that is what we think

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_nzatar@reddit

Respectable

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Lopsided-Rooster-930@reddit

groomed weirdo

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itisnotstupid@reddit

The fact that such a huge campaign trying to make him look weak was put out means that he must be doing something right. I respect him and the Starmer because they were tough against Trump when they had to.

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OrthodoxSlavWarrior@reddit

I do not like macarons.

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BigSignificance1231@reddit

He got balls!

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ISmellLikeBlackTea@reddit

Dude is helping out Armenia against the Turks, I'm for whatever gives our longterm opressors a bad time.

Might as well give them Nukes to balance out the Caucasus

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NewTurnover5485@reddit

On the global stage, he's clearly the best leader there is right now (maybe except Carney). He's quite literally the only man outside of the US (and Putin) that can talk to Trump.

From what I understand the French complain about him, but they complain about every politician, and can't seem to be able to form a functioning government for long so take that with a grain of salt.

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Plus-Gap1073@reddit

Serbian puppet

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Gate2178@reddit

Croatia here: some dude who is a president or prime minister somewhere and has a surname (or maybe it’s his name) which reminds us to type of pasta we eat often. And also he takes his mother on trips around. That’s almost all.

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DragonflyOwn5617@reddit

One of the few non-bland leaders and in a good way as well. Usually if they are not bland, then they are evil or incompetent

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Original-Hall-9832@reddit

North Macedonia thinks he's clown.

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Useless_or_inept@reddit

Macron has set a high bar!

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poipoipanda@reddit

A high at what? Except destroying public services and making the super rich people even richer?

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Lonely-Programmer123@reddit

State spending exploded under him; but sure we're a neoliberal helmhole.

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PlayPob_Champion@reddit

Stamer is the only one in Europe who is worse than Macron.

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Cefalopodul@reddit

I think he's great and you can tell he's doing good by how much the russian bots hates him.

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FrothyEspresso@reddit

Sellout banker crook

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poipoipanda@reddit

Thank you! Exactly

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BillGates121193@reddit

I mean no dissrespect to nobody but I think is gay. And his relationship with his wife is just for the show.

Other than that he is a strong dude who put France back on the map and told USA that NATO and EU don’t need them.

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BChicken420@reddit

Micron

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NoSync22@reddit

I didn’t know Turks held such a grudge against him. 😂

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CataVlad21@reddit

2nd best president in the world after Zelensky.

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Quasarrion@reddit

The guy is right more times than any other politician. I respect him.

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Quasarrion@reddit

The guy is right more times than any other politician. I respect him.

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DimitrisDaskalakis@reddit

I'd vote him to be president of the world

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Fred_Neecheh@reddit

Why

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DimitrisDaskalakis@reddit

I believe in tighter integration, federalisation and finally unification of Europe in order to do away with our local crooks and our conservative worldviews (like LGBT persecution and church meddling in politics), attain economic equality with all other Europeans, and be able to disconnect and stand our ground in front of the US, Russia and China.

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Fred_Neecheh@reddit

I believe in all these things, honestly. He doesnt inspire me, but I guess he is the best out of we ve got. Not good tho.

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DimitrisDaskalakis@reddit

Mario Draghi also comes to mind, but I think he'd be too clinical and too subtle to inspire people to support such an endeavor.

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Fred_Neecheh@reddit

I dont think Macron has a wider reach than Draghi tho

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Time_Trail@reddit

r/EuropeanFederalists join up ur perfect

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teaisthebestbeverage@reddit

He can't even rule his wife and you want him to rule the world ?

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turbmanny@reddit

Sexist comment of the year 😂

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teaisthebestbeverage@reddit

Not to mean sexist, just facts

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turbmanny@reddit

From your comment, you judge the size of a leader by how well he rules his wife.

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Dry-Peak-7230@reddit

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Astristul@reddit

He's a great leader! I can see him succeed Ursula, as the next 🇪🇺 leader!

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teaisthebestbeverage@reddit

A guy who gets beaten by his wife and mocked by world leaders. He has zero charisma, yet I’m still surprised he can be supported in his own country. I guess charisma isn’t actually such a decisive factor in whether a leader is loved and elected.

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draxd_2023@reddit

Babojebac

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Austro_bugar@reddit

Babojeb

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polat32@reddit

He gives me the same vibes like Newsom. Basically out of touch elite douchebag.

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505524hr@reddit

Prava ljudina

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PainOk1877@reddit

some people on forums and internet news outlets call him "grannyfucker" or in croatian babojebac.

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lord-illidan-1@reddit

Бабојебац сусед, него шта! :Д

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PainOk1877@reddit

makron babomajstor

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uwu_01101000@reddit

It’s nice seeing y’all say that he’s an idiot, it’s a little bit sad seeing some of y’all call him gay as an insult.

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Present-Location-917@reddit

Yeah, of all the many things that could be said against him, focusing on the one that doesn’t matter is depressing.

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Sure-Way-2409@reddit

Men get beaten and raped and like it and on this side men get beaten and raped but don't like it

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Present-Location-917@reddit

Europe; Balkans: Remember the difference!

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Inevitable-Pie-8020@reddit

he seems to have a relatively good reputation if you are on the pro european side of the debate, however on the anti european, far right side of things he is the devil incarnate along ursula von der leyen

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