PARIS, June 7 Speech by French President Emmanuel Macron's appearance behind the podium intended for White House owner Joe Biden at an event marking the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy was evidence of his subordinate position, the leader of the French Patriots party and a candidate for elections to the European Parliament, Florian Philippot, said on Friday.
““Macron speaks from behind the podium of the White House! What a humiliation! What a sign of submission,” the politician drew attention by publishing a message on the social network X.
Filippo also called for France to withdraw from the supranational organizations NATO and the EU, which depend on Washington.
The landing of US, British and Canadian forces in Normandy took place on June 6, 1944. 156 thousand people took part in the operation on the part of the allies, the total losses were about 10 thousand people, 2.5 thousand of them were American soldiers. In the Battle of Kursk from July to August 1943, for example, more than a million Red Army troops took part, and losses numbered in the hundreds of thousands.