We do prefer respect to bullies, Macron says at Davos as Trump tensions mount

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: Yahoo/Euronews

Europe "should not hesitate to deploy" tools at its disposal to protect its interests, French President Emmanuel Macron said in his address at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday, amid diplomatic fallout from private messages made public and escalating trade threats from Donald Trump in the run-up to the US president's own highly anticipated speech.
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He opened his speech by saying, "It's time of peace, stability and predictablilty," to considerable laughter in the room. Yet we have approached "instability and imbalance," Macron added, stating that "conflict has become normalised."
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He circled back to the topic towards the end of his otherwise economy-heavy address. "It’s not a time for new imperialism or new colonialism," Macron said. "This is a time of cooperation in order to fix these three global challenges for our fellow citizens."

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



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[dalton99a]

1. Trump will change 200% tariffs to 400% for France.

[wolfie001]

4. You mean he'll do a TACO because the stock market is currently tanking

📉Even his kleptopic billionaire slimy fuck-buddies are having trouble propping up this shitshow.

[livetohike]

2. I hope everyone boos The Felon. Or better yet stand

up and walk out.

[wolfie001]

3. Macron should go crush the orange fatty's small hand again

Really grip it good. Make the fat pathetic insane weasel yelp.
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[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Bonus phrase - "we do prefer science to plotism" - which seems to be an attempted translation of "complotisme"

which came between the two "we do prefer"s above. Some left it out (unsure what he said); Scientists for EU have "plotism", and so do the AlArabiya English subtitles at Daily Motion; the Independent went with " (conspiracies) "; NationalWorld used "conspiracy" as if that was what be said. Bloomberg just uses "relativism", again as if that's a direct quote.

You can hear it at the Daily Motion video; "plotism" seems correct.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/complotisme
https://en.bab.la/dictionary/french-english/complotisme
https://en.bab.la/dictionary/french-english/complotisme