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Jean-Luc Mélenchon: If I am President, France will leave NATO (xcancel.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/europe@hexbear.net
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[–] 43 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Lmao the libs are gonna claim the french nazis are the lesser of to evils for the next election

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    • [–] 41 points 4 months ago

    waow-based

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    [–] 40 points 4 months ago*

    feel the melon

    nato-cool

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    [–] 34 points 4 months ago

    Don't do that. Don't give me hope

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    [–] 28 points 4 months ago

    Come on lets-fucking-go

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    [–] 24 points 4 months ago

    sicko-mega

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    [–] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Based, but I feel like bluntly saying this is self-sabotage. Better to be vaguely NATO-skeptical and then leave after you get elected.

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  • [–] [S] 29 points 4 months ago

    I'm not so sure. Having a principled position can work and goes a long way to rally people. Instead of trying to tip toe around the issue, he's tackling it head on. The sentiment in France is very much anti liberal establishment, and against the US. Saying the quiet part out loud can be powerful.

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    • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    The guy whos lost 10 elections in a row says what

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  • [–] 39 points 4 months ago

    Any socialist running for president should be saying this. PSL candidates would say the same thing. It's important to have the correct analysis of what a socialist france must do for when they build the movement to seize power

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    He got

    11% in 2012

    19% in 2017

    22% in 2022

    He keeps getting more and more popular, and everyone agrees that he has a serious chance of winning now that the situation got so bad, and people are increasingly looking for radicality.

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