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Link: https://www.rt.com/news/612697-macron-us-electroshock/
The French president has called US diplomacy a “strategic wake-up call” and urged the bloc to stop being so dependent. French President Emmanuel Macron has compared Donald Trump’s return to the White House and his recent steps as US president to an “electroshock” that should force the EU to take charge of its own security and Ukraine’s future. In an interview with the Financial Times published on Friday, two days after Trump had a phone talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Macron urged the EU to “muscle up” on its defense and revive its economy. The bloc must embrace the “strategic wake-up call,” take on greater responsibility for its own security, and reduce its reliance on both the US and China, he said. “It is an electroshock. We need asymmetric shocks, we need external shocks. It is an exogenous shock for Europeans,” Macron told the FT.