President of the “Les Indépendants” Group, Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee
Note via Susan Glaser of the New Yorker on Twitter/X : “Powerful speech about Trump’s betrayal of the democratic world. My question watching this — where is the American version? Why hasn’t US’s own opposition to Trump been able to speak out with such clarity and force? Tempus fugit.” Time is running out America, Americans.
English Version (Translated Speech)
Mr. President, Mr. Prime Minister,
Ministers,
Ladies and Gentlemen Ministers,
My dear colleagues,
Europe is at a critical turning point in its history.
The American shield is slipping away.
Ukraine risks being abandoned.
Russia is being strengthened.
Washington has become Nero’s court:
an incendiary emperor,
submissive courtiers,
and a jester on ketamine,
in charge of purging the public service.
This is a tragedy for the free world,
but it is, above all, a tragedy for the United States.
Trump’s message is that there is no point in being his ally,
since he will not defend you,
will impose higher tariffs on you than on his enemies,
and will threaten to seize your territories,
all while supporting the dictatorships that invade you.
The king of the deal is now showing what “the art of the deal” looks like when flat on his stomach.
He thinks he will intimidate China by bowing before Putin,
but Xi Jinping, witnessing such a disaster,
is undoubtedly accelerating preparations for the invasion of Taiwan.
Never in history
has a U.S. president capitulated before the enemy.
Never has one supported an aggressor against an ally.
Never has one trampled the American Constitution,
issued so many illegal decrees,
dismissed judges who could stop him,
sacked the military high command in one stroke,
weakened all counter-powers,
and taken control of social networks.
This is not an illiberal drift.
This is the beginning of the confiscation of democracy.
Let us remember that it took only one month, three weeks, and two days
to bring down the Weimar Republic and its Constitution.
I trust in the resilience of American democracy,
and the country is already protesting.
But in just one month, Trump has done more damage to America
than in four years of his last presidency.
We were at war with a dictator.
We are now fighting against a dictator supported by a traitor.
(The speech continues with analysis of alliances, Ukraine, Europe, and geopolitical implications…)
Long live free Ukraine.
Long live democratic Europe.
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English Version (Full Speech Translation)
Mr. President, Mr. Prime Minister,
Ministers,
Ladies and Gentlemen Ministers,
My dear colleagues,
Europe is at a critical turning point in its history.
The American shield is slipping away.
Ukraine risks being abandoned.
Russia is being strengthened.
Washington has become Nero’s court:
an incendiary emperor,
submissive courtiers,
and a jester on ketamine,
in charge of purging the public service.
This is a tragedy for the free world,
but it is, above all, a tragedy for the United States.
Trump’s message is that there is no point in being his ally,
since he will not defend you,
will impose higher tariffs on you than on his enemies,
and will threaten to seize your territories,
all while supporting the dictatorships that invade you.
The king of the deal is now showing what “the art of the deal” looks like when flat on his stomach.
He thinks he will intimidate China by bowing before Putin,
but Xi Jinping, witnessing such a disaster,
is undoubtedly accelerating preparations for the invasion of Taiwan.
Never in history
has a U.S. president capitulated before the enemy.
Never has one supported an aggressor against an ally.
Never has one trampled the American Constitution,
issued so many illegal decrees,
dismissed judges who could stop him,
sacked the military high command in one stroke,
weakened all counter-powers,
and taken control of social networks.
This is not an illiberal drift.
This is the beginning of the confiscation of democracy.
Let us remember that it took only one month, three weeks, and two days
to bring down the Weimar Republic and its Constitution.
I trust in the resilience of American democracy,
and the country is already protesting.
But in just one month, Trump has done more damage to America
than in four years of his last presidency.
We were at war with a dictator.
We are now fighting against a dictator supported by a traitor.
Eight days ago,
at the very moment when Trump put his hand behind Macron’s back at the White House,
the United States voted at the UN with Russia and North Korea,
against the Europeans,
rejecting a resolution calling for the withdrawal of Russian troops.
Two days later, in the Oval Office,
the draft-dodger of military service
gave moral and strategic lessons to war hero Zelensky,
before dismissing him like a stable boy,
ordering him to submit or step down.
Last night, he went a step further in his betrayal
by halting the delivery of weapons that had already been promised.
What must be done in the face of this betrayal?
The answer is simple: stand firm.
And above all, do not be mistaken.
The defeat of Ukraine would be the defeat of Europe.
The Netherlands, Georgia, and Moldova are already on the list.
Putin’s goal is to return to Yalta,
where half the continent was ceded to Stalin.
The countries of the Global South are waiting for the outcome of this conflict
to decide whether they should continue to respect Europe
or whether they are now free to trample on it.
What Putin wants
is the end of the order established by the United States and its allies 80 years ago,
whose first principle is the prohibition of acquiring territory by force.
This principle is at the very foundation of the United Nations,
yet today, the Americans vote in favor of the aggressor
and against the assaulted,
because Trump’s vision aligns with Putin’s:
a return to spheres of influence,
where great powers dictate the fate of small nations.
“To me, Greenland, Panama, and Canada.
To you, Ukraine, the Baltic states, and Eastern Europe.
To Xi, Taiwan and the South China Sea.”
In the luxury soirées of Gulf oligarchs at Mar-a-Lago,
this is what they call “diplomatic realism.”
Are we alone?
Yes, but the idea that we cannot resist Putin is false.
Contrary to Kremlin propaganda, Russia is in trouble.
- In three years, the so-called “second army in the world” has managed only to seize scraps of land from a country three times less populated.
- Interest rates are at 25%.
- Currency and gold reserves are collapsing.
- Its economy is crumbling.
Putin’s American boost is the greatest strategic error ever committed during a war.
But this shock has a virtue:
Europeans are waking up from denial.
In one day, at the Munich Security Conference,
they understood that Ukraine’s survival and Europe’s future
are in their hands.
They now have three urgent priorities:
- Accelerate military aid to Ukraine to compensate for the American withdrawal,
ensuring Ukraine holds the line and that Europe is part of any future negotiations.This will be expensive,
but we must break the taboo of using Russia’s frozen assets.We must bypass Moscow’s accomplices within Europe,
forming a coalition of willing nations—including the United Kingdom. - Ensure that any agreement includes the return of kidnapped Ukrainian children,
the release of prisoners, and absolute security guarantees.After Budapest, Georgia, and Minsk,
we know what Putin’s promises are worth.These guarantees must be backed by military force,
preventing any future invasion. - Rebuild European defense, neglected since 1945,
and abandoned further since the fall of the Berlin Wall.It is a Herculean task.
But history will judge the leaders of democratic Europe today
by their success or failure in achieving it.
French President Emmanuel Macron recently declared:
“Europe needs its own military alliance.”
This is an acknowledgment that France was right all along,
pushing for strategic autonomy for decades.
It is now time to build it.
What must be done?
- Massively invest in defense.
- Strengthen the European Defense Fund outside restrictive debt criteria.
- Standardize weapons and ammunition systems.
- Accelerate Ukraine’s accession to the EU—it is now Europe’s largest army.
- Rethink the role of nuclear deterrence using French and British capabilities.
- Restart missile defense and satellite programs.
The plan announced yesterday by Ursula von der Leyen is a good starting point,
but much more is needed.
Europe will only become a military power if it first reclaims its industrial power.
But the real rearmament of Europe is its moral rearmament.
We must convince public opinion in the face of war fatigue and fear.
And above all, we must confront Putin’s collaborators—
the far right and far left,
who yesterday, in the National Assembly, argued against European unity and European defense.
They say they want peace.
What neither they nor Trump say
is that their version of peace is capitulation.
- The peace of defeat.
- The peace of replacing Zelensky with a Ukrainian Pétain under Putin’s control.
- The peace of collaborationists who, for three years, have opposed all aid to Ukraine.
Is this the end of the Atlantic Alliance?
The risk is great.
But recent humiliations of Zelensky and Trump’s reckless decisions
have finally shaken the American public.
Polls are plummeting.
Republican lawmakers are met with hostile crowds.
Even Fox News is turning critical.
The Trumpists are still in power,
but in American history,
freedom has always prevailed.
Ukraine’s fate is decided in the trenches,
but it also depends on those who—
in America and Europe—
stand up for democracy.
Our parents defeated fascism and communism through sacrifice.
It is our generation’s duty to defeat the totalitarianism of the 21st century.
Long live free Ukraine.
Long live democratic Europe.
