Because they are not always based on rational decisions, international relations are unpredictable.
In August 2021, as the Americans, without having taken the trouble to consult their allies, left Kabul in a panic reminiscent of their evacuation from Saigon in April 1975, few were those who had not concluded a strategic withdrawal of the United States. United.
Jake Sullivan, the new National Security Advisor, had he not announced, shortly before Joe Biden's induction into the White House, that his foreign policy would aim above all to
"satisfy the aspirations of the American middle class ”?
Emmanuel Macron, in the fall of 2021, presented his response to such a withdrawal: “European strategic autonomy”.
This was the program that the French president wanted to sell to his counterparts in the European Union, which France was preparing to chair from January 1, 2022. But now a totally irrational - and therefore unpredictable - decision…
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