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[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 15 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Hopefully Macron hears this, given the leaked texts to Trump today.

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago

Macron has been brilliant with foreign policy. A little less with domestic policy. Still he's been boldly playing 4-D chess with Putin and 1-D checkers with Trump.

[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 16 hours ago

The texts:

“My friend, We are totally in line on Syria. We can do great things on Iran. I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland."

“Let us try to build great things, i can set up a g7 meeting after Davos in Paris on thursday afternoon. I can invite the ukrainians, the danish, the syrians and the russians in the margins. let us have a dinner together in Paris together on thursday before you go back to the us. Emmanuel.”

The assumption is that he leaked them in response to an earlier quote from Macron:

"We do prefer respect to bullies. And we do prefer rule of law to brutality."

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 12 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

What the actual fuck, I had to check and:

Also NATO's sec:

Assuming this is real, is this shit commonplace or are these bootlickers outliers?

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 7 points 14 hours ago

I doubt these are actually text messages sent to him from Macron, but possibly messages passed from Macron to a Trump lacky and then reinterpreted in a way Trump can read. No clue about SecGen.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

There’s no way Trump understands screenshots. So at minimum, if true, the posting of these are a collaboration with a handler.