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President Emmanuel Macron just can’t help himself. Unless he declares that we are “at war,” he seems to suffer. And indeed, he said it again. It’s stronger than him.
Marking the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Bormes-les-Mimosas, he delivered — with the pathos of a high school actor — a call to arms, or rather to a war economy. He is, of course, free to do so.
The problem is that his version of war was a false one: syrupy, glorified, and romanticized, while dismissing his critics as passive sleepwalkers.
Let us remind Monsieur le Président that war — as we have seen with our own eyes up close — has nothing, absolutely nothing, of the mystical or chivalric élan he seemed possessed by as he delivered his speech.
The full address by French President Emmanuel Macron can be watched, listened to, and read on the official Élysée website.
(gianluca grossi)