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‘Ain’t your business’: Iran defends right to missiles after France warns of possible sanctions
Topic Started: Mar 4 2018, 03:30 PM (81 Views)
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Iran must negotiate over its missile program or risk new sanctions, France has warned. The French foreign minister arrives in Tehran on Monday for high-level talks – but the Iranians say their missiles aren’t Paris’ business.

https://www.rt.com/news/420435-france-iran-sanctions-missiles/
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France still thinks it somehow matters :)
The UK, having once been a great empire degraded into a malicious dwarp whose sole aim is to make harm, but France still pushes to set rules for others, as if it is still a great power :)
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France is a lot smarter and more logical than US popular opinion might indicate. The legal position expressed by the French government is technically correct. However -- and nobody should know this better than a Russian -- the amount of weight that such legal analyses have in the real world is a function of the total economic and military power of the subject nation.

In this case, Iran' defense strategy must take into account the existence of the US garrison state of Israel, armed with large numbers of sophisticated nuclear weapons provided and backed up by the USA. Russia is another nuclear neighbor, although relations at the moment are friendly, due in large part to their mutual enemy maintained by the USA in Palestine.
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George, whatever economic and military potence of France is it is not in endependent country. Just like Japan for example, whose political weight is zero despite being the 3d World economy. In NATO and generally Western World there is onle one decision maker - the US.
The UK invented its own way to be heard - it anticipates American wishes and tries to bark it loud before the US speaks it itself, sometimes even thinks of it. :) And in a more rude and harsh way, so the US could look more polite and reasonable making own move... :)
While France even barking at the victim the US has chosen affords itself too much of independent move and initiative :) thus it will not be heard, everybody is waiting for the US reaction....

In present World there are only 2,5 sovereign countries.
Russia being 0,9 -1 , depending on the issue, and China being 0,5-0,6, depending on the issue. Israel is the rest 1 :lol: , not the US.... :lol:
Edited by Siberian, Mar 4 2018, 05:07 PM.
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I appreciate your joke about Israel and I agree with you that there are only a few nations that speak with sovereign independence in the world forum. France is not one of them. Within the EU coalition, France is an important voice, although not as loud as Germany. The EU coalition is a global voice, although it is mostly heard independently on economic issues because its military power is integrated into NATO and directed by the US.
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George, I am absolutely serious when I joke, and vice versa... :)
no, I meant exactly what I said. The US may be a decision maker as an entity, but you totally belong to Israel. It may wish or may not wish to tell you what to do. In some issues the US may even think it follows own will. But there is no decision at all, not a single one which contradicts Israel's will.
The US is not a sovereign country. You are property of Israel.
Edited by Siberian, Mar 4 2018, 05:28 PM.
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Mar 4 2018, 05:27 PM
George, I am absolutely serious when I joke, and vice versa... :)
no, I meant exactly what I said. The US may be a decision maker as an entity, but you totally belong to Israel. It may wish or may not wish to tell you what to do. In some issues the US may even think it follows own will. But there is no decision at all, not a single one which contradicts Israel's will.
The US is not a sovereign country. You are property of Israel.
Your view has much truth to it but your expression of that view is a bit overheated as a metaphor. Israel and the USA are both technically sovereign countries. Israel is, in practice, totally controlled by the US; however, US policy with regards to Israel is totally controlled by a bi-national Jewish lobby whose members are the ruling oligarchy in Israel and a very powerful bloc of the Republican Party in the US. The structure is unique.
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I think the most exact legal term for the US status is an autonomy.
Some issues are left to your local level, but the most important are imposed from ouside... :)
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Mar 4 2018, 05:13 PM
I appreciate your joke about Israel and I agree with you that there are only a few nations that speak with sovereign independence in the world forum. France is not one of them. Within the EU coalition, France is an important voice, although not as loud as Germany. The EU coalition is a global voice, although it is mostly heard independently on economic issues because its military power is integrated into NATO and directed by the US.
The EU coalition is only the voice of the Fatherland, which came up with the idea of a "United Europe".................. :oyvey
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Mar 4 2018, 05:32 PM
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Mar 4 2018, 05:27 PM
George, I am absolutely serious when I joke, and vice versa... :)
no, I meant exactly what I said. The US may be a decision maker as an entity, but you totally belong to Israel. It may wish or may not wish to tell you what to do. In some issues the US may even think it follows own will. But there is no decision at all, not a single one which contradicts Israel's will.
The US is not a sovereign country. You are property of Israel.
Your view has much truth to it but your expression of that view is a bit overheated as a metaphor. Israel and the USA are both technically sovereign countries. Israel is, in practice, totally controlled by the US; however, US policy with regards to Israel is totally controlled by a bi-national Jewish lobby whose members are the ruling oligarchy in Israel and a very powerful bloc of the Republican Party in the US. The structure is unique.
The USA is the leader of "The Free World"....The problem is no one is following us................. :wah:
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