Originally Posted by
Xeptu
Europe is changing. I believe when Ukraine is liberated, it will with Poland become the power house of Europe, and the UK and the northern part of Europe will be part of it.
Airbus indeed France has a decision to make which doesn't include China. The western world has made it's decision and if southern Europe wants to be part of it, it better start making some decisions.
Agree Xeptu, Poland and much of Eastern Europe, the Baltics, Scandinavia, the UK, USA, Japan, Australia, etc. are becoming increasingly aligned. France has a lot going for it, energy and food independent etc., but they are surely playing with fire by cosying up to the failing totalitarian states (note Macron's attempts to rehabilitate Putin last year), which are going to have a rough couple of decades quite likely involving some level of conflict between themselves (China and Russia that is, not France). It will be interesting to see which way Germany ends up leaning. India too - perhaps an emerging power player in their own right. The rest of Asia is also in play, although signs in the Phillipines, Vietnam etc. point to SE Asia seeing which way the wind is blowing.
These are interesting times, they will be very challenging for some parts of the world but as I suggested above, if you subjugate yourselves to a stagnant, belligerent totalitarian dictatorship that denigrates the very international system on which it relies, you're probably not going to achieve your full potential. Even if you're friends with France.