Is France the next superpower?
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2019
- How President Macron plans to capture Africa's demographic wave by using the French language, with the ultimate goal to cement French hegemony worldwide.
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BAKU - For centuries, France was a global powerhouse, permeating its will over five continents. Since those imperial days, it has lost considerable ground in its former domains. Only in Africa did France retain its hold, owing to the monetary system that was put in place. In the decade after World War II, President François Mitterand was quoted saying: “Without Africa, France will have no history in the 21st century.” Like a foretelling coming true, it is precisely because of Africa that modern-day France is returning as the global force it once was. And it’s using the soft power attributes of language to cement its hegemony
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You're just another globalist euro/russo/catholicophobe.
How foolish
A suggestion for future videos: Since you were talking about the power of language, could you explore something about Lusophony?
NEXT VIDEO: Geopolitics of Kazakhstan.
It would be interesting
2:39 Macron has a plan to rejuvenate "The French Connection".
Macaroni: French will be the most dominant language in africa.
Africans: Nǐ hǎo.
supbrotv
If the Americans let them.
Still 120M africans do speak french, actually it's way bigger because statistics are taken from registered citizens and in Africa there are *shiton* of parts which aren't registered anywhere (bureaucracy speaking), so the real number is prolly like 200M
@@pierrejeanpaulfrancoisjacq25 Didn't the Military Industrial Complex just recently, take over the French arms industry ? What is left of the French sovereignty as an independent country ?
@@Andromediens So they get better exploited via the French language ?
@@pierrejeanpaulfrancoisjacq25 Your Quote: """Ernst Wiltmann thé kings and Queens and gods of this universe are godesses french women." " There I have a conspiracy theory, they where hired to work through the Epstein estates to make Politicians comply to the NWO. Hahah
Is France the next superpower?
-No
But is France a cultural power?
-yes
don't be mad, we are the best ( food, football, luxury, fashion, army victories, culture, art de vivre, diplomacy, network etc...)
@@abdullahalsheikh3922 does that play an important role in the short or midterm influence?
-no
@@jamesrandizeteticien2437 Army victories? LMAO
James Randi Zététicien army victories? Hmm 🤔
All this comment section full of geopolitical expert with Japanese anime avatar make me laugh intensively
You d be surprised how many geopolitics students are into anime...
Yes because having no Profile Picture automatically makes your IQ off the charts. What a Neanderthal we have here
@Ed Sev Macron made the mistake to take the wrong enemys, the brazilians! That alone will prevent France to become a superpower, unless french people say a big fuck you to Macron and start to act more fairly towards brazilians!
Hey... that one hurts me personally...
@@efxnews4776 How will that help at all? Brazil isn't able to swing world politics in any meaningful way.
O boy here we go again, looks like we're gonna have to make the 8th Coalition.
8th Coalitions & New 8th Nation Alliance will be forged when top generals start saying "Vive L'Empereur, Santiago y cierra, España/Latina & Ni Ma Si Le". There's definitely major battles broke out to control certain Strategic & Tactical points in Africas, Mid East, whole Asia, Pacifics, Europe, American Continent, Atlantic Oceans, etc. It will be simply known as the 3rd World War.
Good luck, because Germany won't be here to save you this time ;)
@@TheFrenchscot :That's because Germany will under new Emperor Napoleon again, simple as this.
@@princevelkan295 no. Brussels.
@@princevelkan295 what's going on
Me(A Frenchman): Sees title
Also me: *press x to doubt*
>import tens of millions of people from shitholes
>country becomes a shithole
what could have caused this?!
@@MrBubonicChronic " the genocide of the French people is unfortunately unstoppable.
"
Huh?
@@MrBubonicChronic Notre Dame was a terrible sign for what was next.
@@isaacfox732 ethnic statistics are illegal in france(their reasoning is they fear such things might incite events similar to the holocaust, which is ironically telling) but going off of what we do have it's safe to presume that at least 20% of france's population is not european(probably more, but this is a safe estimate), and this at least 20% of people have a LOT more children than native europeans. while I disagree that genocide is "unstoppable", there is an obvious threat of ethnic replacement and I think more than likely a string of revolts is coming to europe in the next few decades to deal with this fact. it's much worse in nations like sweden and germany where near or over half of the under five years old population is not european, which is why recent events such as the outing of an organized ethnic nationalist coup recently happened in the german military. something the media doesn't report on very much because it doesn't fit in with the narrative.
@@levitatingoctahedron922 I find it hard to believe that nearly half of all people under 5 in Germany and Sweden are non European. Non Germans or Swedes maybe. Last I checked Eastern Europeans still outnumbered people from the Middle East in Germany. France as far as I know has always had a very large North African population. Might i remind you it was originally predicted that America would no longer have a white majority by 2030. Now they're saying that it might still have a white majority beyond 2050. The main reason is that after about 2 generations immigrant birth rates are no longer higher than the local population.
I'm from the future,
FRANCE IS EXPORTING REVOLUTIONS OH GOD-
About half of the conflicts in Africa during the 2nd half of the 20th had French puppet strings. Sometimes they sided with the communist revolutionaries, other times the counter revolutionaries. Whichever gave France the better deal.
France: hehe Vive la revolution go brrrrrrr
They are trying to do the same in south america today, but here things don't work quite well for french, especially when France decide to attack countries like Brazil that are highly patriotic.
@@efxnews4776 are they? I'm from argentina and I've never heard about that!
Especially if you take into account the US monroe doctrine mumbo-jumbo
@@fedorrussel3810 Ah, really? you didn't notice that Macron was always ranting about Amazon?
It's not the first time, the same way you have problem with the brits, Brazil also have problems with France.
The difference is that France was never able to won against Brazil, but also never went full war with Brazil as you did with the brits over the Malvinas.
The strategy only works if the French colonies can be developed into industrialised sustaining economic regions.
True, and they are on a good way :-)
Europe invest a lot in huge help programs and China is investing like crazy
Nope that will never work. A lot of African countries are waking up to this bullshit! That has been the main topic at AU meeting in Ethiopia.
@Sam Aden tell that to south Africa, Djibouti, north Africa. the truth is the UK and France are irrelevant today.
@@sakasaruuni101 they are not, but they are not the superpowers they were before. Still, they are still either 5th or 6th on most important metrics today. And US's proxies.
Why would France allow it's former colonies to industrialize? To become less powerful? That's not how neocolonialism works.
France will be the next superpower, it is shaped as a hexagon and we all know hexagon is the best polygon.
this is a good point. Can't argue with that.
😂 🤣 not only funny but a lot more relevant that 99.9% of the other comments!
@cgpgrey
*taps mic*
HEXAGONS ARE THE BESTAGONS
You are correct
'As the populations of Francophone countries grow, the nexus of the language could shift away from France, spawning new creole dialects and variations of the language that France might not be able to control'
Canada: *Laughs in Quebecois*
They're mutually intelligible. French people just pretend to not understand for a while.
Calvin Howard no you only need some time to atune your compréhension to a strong accent.
I remembered when I was little someone with a strong southern accent (Marseille) spoke to me and I understood nothing. Like nothing at all.
Same for Canadian
The difficulty is that they use slang for words in combination with strong accent
So a car in french is like voiture but in Quebec it’s like “char” (for a french it would be a tank or an old school carriage with horses)
So we do not pretend it’s just hard to when you don’t have at all the same references and a lot of cultural contact.
I guess Canadian are a lot more closer to USA than France. So it evolves differently than France who now have a lot of African slang in its language (mostly Arabic and from old colonies).
No one controls language
@@reallyhappenings5597 The french really try to control it.
@@pirates9109 When listening to kebekwa, you just have to remember that “tz” = t, and “dz” = d.
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Child: starving
Macron: the best I can do is teach you French
AHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
Before telling more garbage, open a newspaper to learn that france is one of the country that supported the most Africa. We recently offered 1.6 billions to help African affording covid-19 vaccines, maybe we do that for the france policy project, but we still support them a lot. One youtube video of 12:14 won't explain you everything, so make so researches before telling shit.
@@Oyou20 lmao. How many has France plundered? There are literally anti-France protests everywhere in Western Africa. Watch their news on how they badmouth France. Didn't France bombed a wedding in Mali just months back, killing 19. Tried to assassinate Madagascar's president a few weeks back. Got caught by Facebook spreading anti-Russian propaganda? Etc... And that 1.6 billion are pledges, never to be executed. Everyone knows that. No need to fool the world.
Le plus beau cadeau du monde.
Gift someone a fish, and you fed him for a day - teach him how to fish, and you fed him for life.
You can't fix starvation in Africa in a year, five years, and not even in ten or twenty. There is too much conflict, etc.
Founding schools with the aim to make them all learn French may sound selfish, but at least they get to visit a school. Some don't have that luxury.
And a country must act in self-interest. If you are a private person, you may do some good and provide a family with financial help so they can have it easier. But as a country, you priority is your own people, everything else is a matter of how much you benefit from it. Countires that act like a welfare institution won't last long - the global political, economical, etc. world is damn ruthless. If you slip, you slip forever.
France might be able to become a superpower once they clean up their subway.
Good point. We have a lot to do regarding the inside mess. But hey, the US is the 1st superpower now and it's messy af.
@@TheFrenchscot well that true for the Soviet union too.
@@theodorsebastian4272 Yes, maybe. Anyway, i think (and hope) that France and Germany will come closer in the years to come. It's already the current dynamic. You can check the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle for example. France + Germany can form a superpower.
That is anne hidalgo's fault (maire of paris) ever since she became maire decades ago, the state of paris has been going down.
I remember paris being cleaner 15 years ago.
@@TheFrenchscot the us is most likely a declining superpower, hence the mess.
I like how the chick is using Nord VPN to buy yoga pants
The russians want to dominate the yoga pants market!
Can never be too careful with dat ass ;)
Sex sells, what can I say 😂
Everyone in the comments is making fun of France but the UK still think it is a superpower itself so it's not the dumbest thing...
Britain is a Superpower 😂 😂 😂
Britain don't even have a Space Program
English Is A Peasant's Language Made By The English Peasants In England..
@@YUSKHAN go fuck yourself
Oh oh let's make fun of others for their inferiority
@@mgtowp.l.7756 Yet so many people speak it. Fancy that!! Not bad for a peasant language.
@Ancient Rageedi Actually they started the Industrial Revolution and were the first large country to copy the Dutch modern financial system. How do you think that they were strong enough or rich enough to sail around the world and take other peoples shit in the first place? Think about it. Besides, Californias GDP is bigger than most countries GDP given that the UK has one of the largest econanies in the world.
England, Germany, Italy, east Asia, Russia: "Awww shit, here we go again."
Fun fact : a guy who talk English talk also french at 30%
?
French kiss...french fries...french dressing....
Not many use Words with French roots in daily life
They are mostly fancy words used in politics
@@appleslover roots, used, and politics are from French
@@user-rj3ub4fd4u root is Germanic
As a French man the short answer is never
I'd like to believe that the real answer is 'someday'.
Are u a Muslim?
Thats what you want us to believe!
@@war8 exactly. all those immigrants need to go back.
@@augustinefaithdefender no not yet , but eventually Islam will prevade acc to my estimate so we will all be Muslims couple of centuries down the line . All thanks to the hollowness in our lives brought abt by materialism and pseudo liberalism subjects like feminism and consumerism . These things have and will further erode all religious ,social contexts of societies and eventually the only answer to all this would be Islam n Sharia .
I may be wrong , I hope I am but that's the future I see .
France is going for an early culture victory! Gandhi rushes nukes.
What is your meaning can you explain me. .? M Indian and wanna now it..
It's a tactic from a popular video game series called Civilization.
@@smartbaba1321 try play game called civ 5 or 6
Gandhi is the only leader that crazy over nuke l. Its start with bug in early version of civ but become feature later on
Vegtam🤣🤣🤣🤣 Ghandi’s peace nukes incoming
English got there first. The Axis powers in WW2 (Germany, Italy, and Japan) use English to communicate with each other.
"Language is a form of power"
*in the distance*: herois do mar
Bom, então parem de reclamar do jeito que nós brasileiros falamos...
@@efxnews4776 Que? O que eu mais vejo é o contrário, Br tá sempre zuando o jeito que os portugueses falam, no twitter deve ser insuportável ser português porque não podem postar nada que aparece um brasileiro falando merda
As an Englishman the title alone made me choke on my tea
@@banditop276 u wot m8?
@@Pentagathusosaurus I think he's saying England will turn into a teacup. Not sure why he's smiling, guess he likes teacups. I dunno I'm American, I don't understand North Korean.
@احمد ضياء Actually, the language is called English, not American. And if you are referring to me as "American" then you'll have to put a comma behind "american". It's okay English is my 2nd language (although I can speak it better than Bengali)
Actually upon closer inspection, I think he means, he means " you can see the future of England with a tea cup". Not sure how that works, but sure.
By the way, if you can't tell, I'm joking.
@@banditop276 you really need to get better at insults, that one is shit
As a Frenchman I did the same.
There’s a reason we are pro EU...
We’re quite conscious that times have changed.
We’re already quite happy with where we are, to tell you the truth, just look at a map:
We’re soooooo much bigger than England 🥳
Nobody:
Caspian report: when will Scandinavia reunite the kelmar union
NORTH BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Prob when anti-EU sentiment in Sweden, Denmark and Finland gets so strong we decide to make our own union instead.
Might just happen, most people I talk to about this is positive and think a Northern European Union could be preferable to a European Union in many ways. Right-wingers think it's a way to control immigration better, left-wingers that it will preserve the Scandinavian egalitarian culture better.
That being said, close to no-one is pushing for this in Scandinavia right now.
I say it's up to the EU. If the EU turns towards a corrupt, dysfunctional union, I don't think the patience of people in the Nordic would stand. The standards and expectations are higher in the North.
@Nabium - can Esti into Scandinavia?
Cossack Historian no bro Estonia is far from being a part of Scandinavia.
@@cossackhistorian7425 Personally I would love to see Estonia be a closer part of the Nordic co-operation, and become an equal partner in the Nordic Council, and so if there ever were to be a Nordic Union I would like to see Estonia as a part of it.
Estonia's history is closely tied with the other Nordic countries, particularly Finland and Sweden. But, because of the Soviet Union a lot of people today have forgotten and are not aware of how close these cultures have been in the past. Estonia writes with the Latin alphabet, it has a protestant past/tradition, has a Finnic language, it's always been a part of Northern Europe more than Eastern Europe. Same goes with Karelia and Ingria, but that one is more complicated obviously.
In Northern Europe we should stand together as brothers and sisters, the Balto-Finnic people and the Scandinavian people together combines and make up the Nordic, due to a long shared history, along with the Sami people and the Islanders descended from Scandinavians(the Faroes, Iceland, and in some people's opinion Shetland and Orkney too).
Exactly what is the Nordic and what is not, is heavily debated, but in my opinion it does not make sense to think of Finland as Nordic without also thinking of Estonia as Nordic.
Maybe... In EU IV.
Not in HOI4 tho
Big Blue Blob's glory days were in EU 1 and EU 2.
Sarthak Mishra im done😂😂😂
@@arabtrappers6934 Well they could if Germany or the Soviet Union kept banging their head against the brick wall that is the Maginot Line if they invade the Low countries
Why do only white men who sound almost the exact same play EUIV anyway?
I feel like I'm the only mixed person who has black who plays EUIV
If there is to be a next superpower, I as a Greek will always support France!
Why?
@@SeeLasSeeI think that apart from the good relations between my country, France, and Greece, it is above all culture that links us. The French greatly admire Greek culture, which is the basis of our civilisation. You only have to look at our literature movements to understand the importance of Greece in French culture.
You guys haven't conquered anything since Alexander the great😅...or Pyrrhus of Epirus 😑..
@Sri349r9r and the french have helped greece through its independence etc 🙏👍❤️
As an English teacher, I found this very interesting, and plausible. However, I've had a few French students who eventually conceded that they get nowhere in the world with French. I like to soften that blow by telling them that yes, at the moment, English is the 'Lingua Francia', so they can feel some pride. To be honest, I think the best thing France has got going for it is that almost all of the French people I've met have been thoroughly nice people.
Linguistic wars might happen in Africa against French, like in Cameroon.
I am swiss from Geneva, I speak French, official language of the vaud state , you won't get a job here with only english but french, average salary 5400 chf like 5400 euros. Not sure how is that nowhere lol, You can work in Canada, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and many africain countries. We have all the united nations here in Geneva and you need French to work there, as it is still used and was the diplomatic language. Not only, but if you watch the GO, the french language usually comes first. It's funny that as an english teacher you get your fact from your students. But i get it, you leave in your english bubble and made it your job ;)
@@zenshulighting8887 Sorry, what do you mean by the GO? By the way, I wasn't generalising, by saying 'they' get nowhere without English, I was relating their experiences from their careers and lifestyle. Considering I meet people from all over the world on a daily basis, if I didn't learn something from my students, I wouldn't be paying attention.
*lingua FRANCA , (like frank?) kinda embarrassing for u lol
Sorry but besides France and it’s unfortunate colonies, no one cares about France. It will die off very soon. Nobody cares about where a language originated and aren’t using it because of where it originated but it’s convenience. And just because a lot of people speak a language doesn’t mean it’s origin will magically become the strongest. At most it will stay relevant before declining and being forgotten.
Americans: "how dare you suggest an existence of another superpower"
Brits: "NO ANYONE BUT THEM"
Germany: "Not if I have anything to say about it"
China: "am I a joke to you?"
France: "No."
The british one is on spot
Haha
This is a summary of the last century of geopolitics.
Lol, it is really a funny comment,!
China isn't a superpower as it doesn't meet what a superpower needs to be.
I doubt this soft power approach will return french super power status. It is also doubtful if the french people will remain willing to pay these subsidies
I am.
Heraclez hey You know don’t ya white flag is always great for army
Prees f to pay respects
The French people see their language AS THEM instead of a tool to be used. It is part of their DNA(they claim). So, yes, they will pay the subsidies. English is a true bastard language and no one who speaks English cares. This helps make it a global language.
You are missing the point of the video. France is literally the only European country with a chance of
great power status. For example the the British are leaving the EU. That mean no other major country in the EU is a English speaking. This will allow France to promote French as the dominant language of Europe. Furthermore Africa has a large French speaking population. The population of Africa is projected to be 1.52 Billion in 2025 ( 5.5 years from now) About half of those people speak French and a first or second language. This puts the French language after English and Mandarin Chinese in numbers of speakers. Far ahead of Spanish.
@@MrAmhara How does having billions of Africans speaking your language make you a superpower?
Short Answer: No
Long Answer: Still No
Stupid hater
@@YohavYahel y’all weak 🏳🏳🏳🏳🏳🏳🏳
lol stupid
@@lmaodead2900 say what u want to say to my face but france will never be a superpower if the US and UK exist
@@lmaodead2900 oh ok sorry
Around the time before Napoleon, French was actually more popular than English in Europe. Then Napoleon made it unpopular with the wars.
Not really. French was still the language that all of the European upper classes spoke even up until the early 20th century.
Not true at all xd
@@JohnDouille Sorry to tell you wrong JohnDoe. It actually was the official international language of choice from 1700 to 1950. It remains a very important legal and diplomatic language due to the imprecision of English. That's a simple fact, nothing to be mad at... For a very long time Latin, Greek and French were the 3 languages of choice.
Rubbish comment. The French language only began to lose out to English when the British Empire increased even further, when the USA started to grow even bigger and after the World Wars when both the USA & UK came out victorious and unoccupied by any German or Nazi forces.
France is that country where the population lives breaking everything on the street?
France: We’re going to be next superpower !
World: Lol, no
France: *They don’t know we have Napoleonic child*
World: Elba is waiting.
@@keithscott1957 World: We will pay coalition, because it's too hard too fight them !
Napoleon I & IV is simply an avatar of Gaius Julius Caesar II who is an avatar of Jesus Christ:-
Revelation 1:8 ¶ ‘I am the Alpha and the Omega’, says the Lord God, WHO IS AND WHO WAS AND WHO IS TO COME, the Almighty.'
Jesus Himself is an avatar of His Father who art in heaven.
Consequently, God is on the side of France and its ultimate Victory over Europe and the rest of the world was preordained since the foundation of the world:-
Isaiah 9:6-7 ¶ FOR A CHILD HAS BEEN BORN FOR US, A SON GIVEN TO US; authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, PRINCE OF POWER. HIS AUTHORITY SHALL GROW CONTINUALLY, AND THERE SHALL BE ENDLESS POWER FOR THE THRONE OF DAVID AND HIS KINGDOM. He will establish and uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time onwards and for evermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
Revelation 12:5 ¶ And she gave birth to a son, A MALE CHILD, WHO IS TO RULE ALL THE NATIONS WITH A ROD OF IRON.
Daniel 2:44 ¶ And in the days of those kings THE GOD OF HEAVEN WILL SET UP A KINGDOM THAT SHALL NEVER BE DESTROYED, NOR SHALL THIS KINGDOM BE LEFT TO ANOTHER PEOPLE. It shall crush all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, AND IT SHALL STAND FOR EVER;
Daniel 7:27 ¶ The kingship and dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the holy ones of the Most High; THEIR KINGDOM SHALL BE AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM, AND ALL DOMINIONS SHALL SERVE AND OBEY THEM:-
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Ultimately, the Victory of France is most assured and guaranteed, because God has predestined this great moment since the foundation of the world:-
Isaiah 46:10 ¶ Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My purpose shall stand, and I will fulfil my intention’,
@Saki Maro The problem is I already clicked on read further.
@@keithscott1957 Do not make the same mistakes again.
We'll send him to St. Helena. In the other case he would come back.
If French want to be a superpuissance , French has to play the role of France. De Gaule
Exactly because no one country can truly claim to be the leader of the anglo-sphere, it seems better as an international language. French has the issue of it being so closely tied to France, meaning any and all choices to speak french has some political side to it. If I were to speak french, you'd assume that I'm either a native speaker, or that I have a large interest in France itself.
Same with mandarin.
French will more likely become something like spanish, i.e. spoken on a continental scale, but I can't see it overtaking english anytime soon.
Yeah but some people say that French might overtake English and Mandarin in 2050 becoming the most spoken language in world
@@napoleanbonaparte2204 That is based on a projected increase of africans AFAIK. I understand where they're coming from, but I still doubt that french would become the lingua franca of the world. It seems more likely that the french pocket will become larger. English is already used in airports, it is already widely used. Changing that will be difficult due to the present infrastructure. Something to also keep in mind is that there is a reason spanish hasn't become the lingua franca. It didn't matter that there are more native speakers, and that the language is far easier to learn.
French is very difficult to learn, so I don't see it ever replacing english as it is now.
I may be wrong of course
Lol French can never become africas continental language.
@@napoleanbonaparte2204It is possible, but that would only mean that the population of Francophone Africa would increase a lot. French is already present there, the question is, can French take the spot of English in countries where neither language is official, like China, Brazil, Mexico, Germany and so on. Can it become the number one international language, and the language that people want to learn instead of English. I would say hell no. The USA has the most influence in the financial institutions (and not only) in the world, and they will maintain English as the lingua franca. I would say Chinese could have had a good chance of challenging English due to China's growing influence, if only their language was not as complicated as it is.
@@sigurdjensen195 Yeah makes sense👍
Next on CaspianReport: What if Luxembourg colonizes the entire world?
Tge answer is maybe but it has to defeat sealand first
@@germanyandfcbayern5791 haha
Not without Lichtenstein!!
Luxembourg is too easy. You aren’t challenging yourself if you don’t play Ryukyu.
Lol genau esou man mir daat,
Mir hun schon ungefangen 🇪🇺
Hahaha 😁
Considering France's domestic policy probably not, hard to build a house when the foundation is crumbling.
It will crumble indeed because they are exploiting africans
holy shit, white supremacists are deranged. don't end up like the person above me.
@WIKIPEDIA watch the caspian reports video on Frabce's grip on africa.
It might help crack your thick skull
Hard to keep a home without doors and windows
Moetez Ouelhazi
Thick neanderthal skull🤣
Lets hope it doesn’t end up like the last time France was a superpower
Well, if you are talking about Napoleonic war, France just defend by attacking.
The last time France was a superpower, schools became popular and ideas of liberty spread across Europe. Also, it kept a peace in Europe for 60 years
@Wind Rose Uh, yeah. Sorry, my thoughts went to Napoleon the 1st when he said last time France was a Super Power, but yeah, thats true
@Wind Rose Get out with racism, there are enough with this obsession woke!
@Wind Rose If we begin to talk about it everytime we talk about a person from history, we can do it with every single person who wrote history. I don't know your nationality but if I begin to talk about racism like you, I would say that Georges Washington shouldn't have his face on Mount Rushmore because he had done nothing about slavery. I would say that the main tribes in africa are assholes because they gives their people to the slavers and there is more examples from all side. So let's stop with that, we and them got a different way of thinking and right now you are currently thinking with your 21 century mind and not with 19 century mind. Instead of releasing your hate of racism on dead people from the past, begin to talk to the alive one of today, it would be more productive. Even though, it's not a reason to forget what our ancestors have done.
With all my respect,
Have a nice day and a good life,
Persons who read my comment.
This sort of video makes CaspianReport one of my favourite channels!!
Colonialism never died, it just changed its clothes.
colonialism is just imperialism, it will never die.
lmao so dumb, without france's help and other countries africa would have wars constantly, now theres just rebels that other countries try to wipe out to help your corrupted government
@@zomkino lol @ help
@forever0042000 Brazil start to spread influence in Africa, guess what happen? Today France made Brazil their nº1 enemy...
yes and is practiced by those who was once exploited
They could become a cultural superpower; but their population and budget is way too low to become a superpower in the traditional sense
They got this other side project called the EU... France is the second largest economy and the strongest military power in that arrangement with the UK out.
@@mengelmoesNL How can you be a superpower if you don't even have the biggest economy in your region?
Johnny Slokes
France have nukes unlike Germany.
France have a huge army unlike Germany.
France have a veto in UN unlike Germany.
France control the EU central bank unlike Germany.
France have territories on the 7 continents unlike Germany.
France is n•1 tourist destination in the world unlike Germany.
France population growth unlike Germany.
@@nahouledeb5949 Haha I'm sorry to bother my friend but apart from the UN veto, the rest will fade with the lack of economic power increase ... it is sad to say because I'm French but if we don't acheave a change or up in "croissance", we won't stand a chance in maintaining our place in the top nations of the world ...
Germany’s already passed the peak of its economic growth. It isn’t expected that France could surpass them with competent economic management and growth in the next 20 years or so.
As an American, we love France! Because they've been on our side since the the revolutionary war... Now we need to help them become superpower as well :) 🇫🇷
Lol too bad that won’t happen
Very educational and informative
Allied powers: “The German empire wants to enslave the world under their grip!” Half the enslaved world: “Hon hon hon we definitely volunteered speak both English and French!”
TBF, only one side was undoubtedly genocidal.
@@innosam123 some Indians and Persians and afticans may have a different opinion on this
@@innosam123 but both sides where genocidal...
Kiyan Hakim Ok, so you’re implying moral equivalence in terms of racism between the two sides?
Here’s a hint. Only one side actually intended to destroy entire races and cultures from existence.
@Fredinno He might mean the millions of Soviets killed by its own government.
Rwanda recently switched to English as its official language.
And it's doing good now
@@hassanoubakkas5064 Until the next time the Hutu decides to let out the machettes on the Tutsi again ;) People have such a short memory...........
Yeah, it seems it's becoming more common as a second language in most countries.
@@christophedohet8877 don't forget that Europe has had its own tribal wars over the past two thousand years. All worthwhile projects require time.
christophe Dohet or the other way around
We all know that France is nothing without Africa, Africa is seen as a poor country, but if we go down in history and even now, europe's rich thanks to Africa, just because they are not aware about this, about what France is doing, they let them do, but today Africa is waking up, let's see what France or european countries are gonna be, i have hope in Africa: you can do it, wake up and show the world who and what you really are🥹❤❤❤❤
France lost all of the Africa land.
@@pixelpumpkinYES not yet, not all of it
Lol, you make me laugh when you say Africa is a country
@@pixelpumpkinYES France indirectly controls 14 African nations.
I love that first shot from Sacre Coeur. One of the coolest places I've stood.
What if Napoleon had 3 dragons?
Underrated comment xDD
I see what you did there...
"Dracarys"
-Napoleon Barnopate
Scorched earth would have a different meaning
@@HWDragonborn Valar dohaeris
Oh sh**, here we go again...
It would be the 4th time in history if France took the title of superpower.
First time was the Kingdom of France until after the American Revolution had caused financial problems.
Second time was when the First French Empire when Napoleon was exiled, came back and lost at Waterloo, being exiled again.
Third time when Napoleon's nephew Napoleon III made the Second French Empire until Germany destroyed it in 1870.
@@olympia5758 The fourth Frankreich!
@Fabian Kirchgessner yea, the first ever superpower was decided after the seven years war between Britain supported by Prussia and France supported by Austria and England won...
Weird that I've never seen Spain referenced as a superpower in any books or article.
@@meandmetoo8436 Spain is not considered a super power because they were constrained to S. America for the most part. Great power? Unquestionably. Global super power? No. Only Britain, France, USSR, and USA have done that so far.... History marches on. Who will be the 5th? >>
@@w8stral China has the potential to be the next superpower
But they had it for a while without ever becoming one so we'll see.
India could but just doesn't have the infrastructures and industry yet.
The EU could become one, but it needs a lot more integration.
Also, the USA doesn't look like they want to give up the place.
Funny thing about France coming from a Spaniard: They filled our ears about "democracy" and "human rights" for decades while we speaked French as second language and when "democracy" arrived the language was changed to English.
Oh yes they are big on human rights but only if it assists France. Look at all the migrants coming across the channel because France is not hospitable to them.
@@susancurtis1651 The famous migrants shouldn´t even cross the Straight of Gibraltar.
As a Frenchman I agree.
We hate our elites so much.
The southern countries of Europe are getting poorer and poorer.
@@wertyuiopasd6281 But in our case in Spain large parts of the country have always experiences cronic poverty and unemployment and we are a bordering country with Africa and thus with 1 Billion possible african immigrants and despite all we survive and flourish while in France you don´t have such bad circumstances but your country is on a shitty situation due to the treason and cowardize of your politicians. Le probleme de la France c´est la lachete et la traison de ses elites envers le peuple. Point.
France: I will dominate Western Africa
Nigeria: hold my beer
french is probably the second language of the country, if i remember correctly it even has some sort of co-official status. you can't just escape the pressure of literrally every surrounding country
But why didn't Spain use it's widespread language to become a global power ?
Because it lost its hold on all of its colonies so they didn't have a point of entry (militarily or culturally).
Spain literally was THE FIRST global power in human history. So I don't really know what you're talking about.
@@SuperLusername Ever heard of Portugal?
Ministry of Truth meh Spain had more influence
@@hussamalmasaid2494 And the USA has more influence than Spain! So what? What an inane comment! Yes, Spain was more powerful. YET, the fact remains: *Portugal was THE FIRST global power in human history.* And, funny enough all powerful Spain signed a treaty (Tordesillas) with weak Portugal dividing the world rather than just take it! Hell, Spain couldn't even conquer small Portugal for all it's might!
It doesn’t need to be a super power. As long as life is good for its people and continue to have a great life- who cares.
clearly politics is not for you buddy
Politics bunch of dickwat offering fuck all for the sake of it
How long will life remain great? There are all these problems that France needs reforms. Right now you can live it up. Your future descendants might not.
Ling-Ling Gutierrez von Wallenstein IV other countries are not super powers and life is good. Like Switzerland, or Norway.
Doesn't look like life is good for the people tho
I never once considered the decentralisation of the English language compared to the centralised language of other 'big' languages in the world.
The English language, no doubt, is the main global in terms of trade and Communication's. French is my mother tongue.
France: Becomes a superpower.
The rest of Europe: *I'm about to end this man's whole career*
Emman Mojica
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Emman Mojica that’s not fair they are turning on their own kind
@@karandullet380
How positively French.
Emman Mojica ah.......didn’t get u there
...not if they ally with Russia so they maintain Europe in place...
France has never had the goal of being the next superpower in the last 40 years. The goal is to make Europe a superpower, not France alone.
Thank you, finally a good comment.
@@stephenmurray2851 that's just a side project by extreme leftist in our governments
And yet Europe is manipulated to make America a greater country in the past century.
@@stephenmurray2851 And nobody deserves it more.
@@TheSuperhoden The extreme leftists are your government.
these videos actually add so much perspective
France produces far more important people in STEM categories than the UK and the US it's just the way it is. So that should compensate for its lack of speakers.
France has literally perfect geography. Littered with beautiful river valleys, mountains, fertile plains and four seasoned mild weather.
yet they still got overrun by Germany a couple times lmao
Kaneli Kalori Haha white flag funny!! France hast the most military victories. I love germany so much but jeez you’re ignorant.
@Laurance He talked about the geography not about the military. And btw France actually has the most powerful army in Europe today. What is the "main power" for you? You have to be more precisely. There is soft and hard power
@Laurance And that's why the French First Republic conquered the Rhineland. If Napoleon had accepted the Frankfurt proposals, France would own Cologne today
@Laurance Only two time in ww1 germany didn't reach Paris
By that logic Spain should be a super power
You see? I am thinking the same. A bit off the point I think this video is. Although, I think that France would actually get stronger as its population and thus production and consumption will rise while Germany's population is expected to decrease from 83 million to lower than 70 million.
The Castilian empire struggles to keep Catalunya and the basque country and goes on about recovering Gibraltar and the Peñon de perejil off a beach in morroco
@paritosh bnm USA leads the Hispanic world. 60 millions of Spanish speakers are in the USA. And many movies, tv shows, many companies have headquarters in the USA.
Mexico, Spain, and Argentina have a big influence also.
@paritosh bnm 58.2 millions spanish speakers
source: Wikipedia.:)
Most of them speak english also.
Spain horrible relations with latinamerica... not even stealing from them while france not only sells her good but also stealsss freeellyyy aaaanything there
I am Mexican and I obviously know English and Spanish and i am currently learning French just because it sounds pretty. And it is the defacto third language in northern Mexico and southwest USA. I understood what Macron said.
I feel that this is an indicator of how much our world has changed. A century or two ago, a European power wanting more influence in Africa would just invade. But now they’re doing things like building language schools. People may not change, but the rules by which they operate change.
That's quite concerning. The good news though is that the French have a solid record of their plans going south.
disconcerning? Am I missing something?
@@1337flight New age imperialism is not a good thing
@@eggnchip Yeah lol, thought so but really surprised myself being the first one to call it out
@@1337flight concerning, sorry:-9
@@the-quintessenz I like disconcerting better ;-p
"Macron is planning to spend hundreds of millions of euros in thousands African countries " Is that what I heard?
Nope.It says France plans to spend hundreds of millions of euros in more than two dozen African countries.
@@yahyazahedi9091 ok. I thought that's what I heard.
In a country where tens of billions of dollars and RMB go in the endless void of African corruption, Macron is going to spend millions.
Good for him lol.
afro money to be spent on africa
He going to spend African own money. Unite and leave france
Well, France is already a superpower in that it has nuclear weapons (the fourth largest cache) and permanent membership as well as veto power on the UN Security Council. It has also firmly established a sphere of influence in the Mediterranean. (Here in Greece, the people look up to France, and Greece as a whole, including the government, remain very loyal to it).
More brilliance from Caspian Report.
France: has nukes
Also France: we need to weaponize our language
@@rifjfnfn5136 goddamnit you just wiped him out
France should use it's nukes against Africa to cut down migration.
North Korea has nukes.
Russia can wipe France of the map with their nukes
@@happybureaucrat1311 Pakistan should nuke France
The more those African countries grow and get deals the US and China, the less leverage France will have to keep its colonialist monetary system in place.
Well, Napoleon's heir married a Habsburg, so we should probably brace ourselves.
I have watched a few episodes from the Caspian report. The breadth of your topics is stunning and seems to come with a real understanding for the local issues
No, I’d consider France currently as one of the Great Powers for sure but it is certainly not a superpower nor will it ever again be one for the foreseeable future unless something massive changes.
Dell12 16 Look up ITER & TOKAMAK projects HQ’d in France & slated for completion by 2025... There’s “nuclear fission” & then there’s this other thing called “nuclear fusion”, & so France having a lead role in both fields is worth noting.
@bizkitgto 40 years away actually, and the engineers are taking a margin.
@bizkitgto that's true but being one of the first nation to adopt this new technology will gave them a huge boost
@bizkitgto yes but "one of the first" not "the first"
Why are you so sure. The future is unpredictable but yet, despite all its problem, France do have good cards to play and has experience abroad.
It's so fun to see this comment section... Looks like everyone is an expert in geopolitics and French politicies
Well people read the news. Also Google is your friend.
@@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ Lol imagine making your culture only with newspapers and wikipedia.
It´s so true hahaha!
@@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ Yeah it will, most battle victories in the world, one of the strongest armies, has nukes...
Phantomツ
Are those battle victories recent???
Strongest armies...France got pissed when the US pulled out of Syria...the French can’t handle the logistics alone. Recently the French foreign minister expressed alarm at the possibility of the US leaving France alone in Africa. France doesn’t want the US to pull out. Why not? I mean she has of the finest armies...the Russians can handle operations and logistics alone. China is getting there. Why not France?
Then they hear French rap and realize why English is so popular.
🤣🤣🤣🤣👀💀
No matter the language, rap sucks ass
Are you kidding? French rap is 200 times better than English rap. American rap is almost always empty in terms of poetry, and most of the times the only meaning of those songs are : buying drugs, having sex.
@@Alhmaleonn mmm why u listen to the shity rap then ? There 10x more great rapper here lol
@@KDH-br6hy The fact is once I learned to understand English, I stopped listening to that senseless crap and realized there in France the worst are much better than the best American rap today.
Maybe it is, remember the polar bear who said Bonjour in Antartica?
i think you're on to something
France: we will rise again.
World: hold my beer.
France is eternal
No
France is slowly dying before our eyes !!!
beer is haram
sharia in france will not allow beer anymore
@@user-gc4zn4fs4r sharia is good
@@Vigoda.D how many time since 5th century did France have a bad time? many... and it raised again each time
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@SysPowerTools My sugestion is that people should watch the entire damn video before commenting.
@SysPowerTools Africans speaking French won't give direct benefits for France but it might have indirect benefits. Africans could be more likely to do business with people who speak the same language or well educated Africans who are educated in French will go to France for better opportunities and create jobs there.
Very interesting!
Another little French man with grandiose plans.
France is Big .
Not , small .
If they became one they'd just go out and protest becoming so..
@Fabian Kirchgessner why though ? You would benefit quite heavily from the new demands of german products.
@@meandmetoo8436 I'm sorry but you just got...
WOOOOSHED
@@hanjizoe2648 It could have been an history related joke but judging from this guy's other comments I'm really not sure.
@Fabian Kirchgessner Germany will do nothing of the sort, firstly you wouldnt be able to secondly it would benefit you way too much nowadays to have a superpower as a neighbour with whom youve been maintaining excellent relationship with fir the last few decades. You lost 2 rounds of world war you wouldnt win a 3rd
@Fabian Kirchgessner Fabian Kirchgessner nothing to do with national pride? And then youre putting out "military reputation" next to that? Go read a fucking book then m8 the only reputation Germany has militarily is to lose world wars they started. Germany's Army is barely active anymore nowadays and most of your citizens are fucking ashamed if what happened last century and wouldnt even want an army if you gave em one. Get real m8. Militarily germany has nothing to show for today, the two biggest military powers of the EU were UK and France and now there is only France left. This is well documented everywhere on the web and official ranking stop lying to yourself.
The only point youre right about is the economy, but thats easy when 26 other countries are carrying your ass up while you pull strings. Also FYI France isnt considered a loser in WW2 you fucking idiot we were Allied force and allied forces won, who has Elsace Lothringen today? You got fucked during the first world war and then managed to invade a weakened country whose allies had fallen back. And you still lost and we still won. Youre just full of shit m8 no one but you sees Germany as a superpower you dont even meet the 2% of GDP in defense budget that NATO agreed on. If what you said was any kind of valid this video would be about Germany but it isnt because what you are saying is nothing but a fantasy you should do some research about the poor state Germany's army is in. Germany doesn't even have nuclear powers. For your own good just stop youre displaying your foolishness is public
It's funny to see Anglophones making fun of France when we know that the French have had a huge influence on the English language, Europe and the world. Most people underestimate France too much, they can't imagine how important a role it played in building the modern world. Today there are those who laugh at France and those who are not inculturated.
the real franch people are minority now, time is over for them...
Yeah France played a role in building the modern world but not as important a role as other countries such as the UK.
btw I think you may have meant "anglophiles" not "anglophones" as you would be an "anglophone" yourself by writing the comment previously. I am not sure if that is much of a technicality or not.
They don’t play a role in anything anymore, ever since Hitler fucked Paris youse haven’t been the same since. People underestimate the night French as you say, do you have some Frankish wet dreams off a new Napoleon rising up too take over the world ? It played an important role in the modern world, but so did the UK, USA, Germany, And Russia. People just like to mock the French for being ethnically cleansed, and for thinking they’ll be a SuPeR pOwEr again, they’re wrong you only have influence in your Soviet Union version 2.0 ( The European Union) where nations like France, Belgium, and Sometimes Germany only bully other smaller euro nations for there own gains. You French don’t care about your European brothers, and when your multi cultural shithole, where there’s North African And Middle Eastern rape gangs growing wild in your country fails, you’ll be left behind in every way unless the Germans bail you out again.
Morlack dad sad but true.
@@jackjft9654 It doesn't surprise me to see this kind of comment coming from an American whose vision of the world stops at your borders, you're citizens of a racist country that is going to hell or Kanye West is a candidate for the 2020 presidential election and Kim Kardashian first lady, seriously? Stop talking about subjects you don't understand, France has a special bond with its former colonies that no other country can understand, your media talk about France as a place "invaded" by Muslims it's not totally false but it's an exaggeration, why your media never talk about the indigenous people who lived well before you and that you have destroyed, they must be turning in their graves seeing what you have done with their land, what we call today the United States. In your films, the French are always cowards and arrogant, and they surrender immediately as soon as a bad German sets foot in Paris, so go tell that to my grandfather who was a resistance fighter and who continued to fight in Africa and on French soil against the Nazis until 1944. Without us you would be a country like Canada, part of the Commonwealth. You have an image of us that is far from reality. And you're not a rosy country either.
I speak french but I live in Canada and its useful when or if you go through Quebec. Still not hugely useful though as I live in Newfoundland which is by far the most Anglophone province
Its only useful because the government forces you to speak it. If it weren't for those stupid Quebec nationalists English would overtake French in Quebec.
@@uchennanwogu2142 I also see many people from St. Pierre et Miquelon, which is french regardless of Quebec's status
@@Ryan98063 Well French isn't that useful in North America.
It is extremely useful in Canada.
Nobody speaks French in BC.
France : I'll be here next first power!
Brics and EU: I'm Joke to you?
I see French bashing is still a thing lol, but no I don't think France could ever become a superpower
Well, that is what happens when you LOSE every single war of any significance for 200+ years straight. Tropes are created. Might not be accurate, but....
@Negasso Kadir I wasn't talking about the video, the video is well made and accurate and this channel has quality content, I was talking about the french bashing in the comment section
@Pepe the Frog Sadly, but luckly more and more are realising how stupid that war was
@Pepe the Frog exactly ! Y'all need to watch the documentary French Bashing
@@w8stral " hey i dont know shit about history and im talking about it, Yayyy "
i really fail to see how having a lot of africans speak your language make you a superpower.....
If African countries became more industrial based maybe,but there is no capital for such investment in such risky , corrupt back waters. The educational, industrial, infrastructure or cultural will (domestically or in Africa states) isn't there as a foundations to build upon greater French hegemony. To impose pressure to make these things really happen would harvest fresh (yet valid) accusations of neoimperialism and the return to colonialism. Macron and his ilk wouldn't have the stomach to see it through.
LOOOOOL! Merci pour ce moment de fou rire!
Ça m'a fait beaucoup rire, genre on a envoyé 5000 militaires au mali c'est bon on est une puissance mondiale
@@evryatis2853 en effet, on a la meilleure armée en Europe derrière la Russie
Attention si tu es Français:
La section commentaire de cette vidéos est remplis de "Haters"
Bien content de nous rabaisser:
- De nous rappeler que nous sommes des lâches (WW2...) "Ha ha SurRenDerrr" 😂😂😂
- Qu'on ne se lave pas ( Sérieusement de nos jours à quoi sert une salle de bain... ?) 😏
- Que nous sommes des bouffeurs de grenouilles, de fromages qui puent et d'escargots moisis 🤢
- Que les Françaises ne se rasent pas ( l'hiver, ça tient chaud dans les bottes) 😉
etc.... etc
Bref
Ils nous haïssent et sont bien contents de nous le faire savoir 👍
If you're not French ... it's reciprocal 👋🤭
En tant que Québécois, c'est notre quotidien de se faire ridiculiser par les anglophones; ils sont jaloux et arrogants tout simplement.
Mais faut être honnête.
Ça n'arrivera pas.
Pire encore on va être déclassé.
Quand l'Inde, la Chine, la Russie, le Mexique et autre pays émergent seront développés. Tous les pays européens comme l'Allemagne, la France ou le Royaume-uni seront déclassés.
J'encourage tous mes compatriotes et cousins québecois à regarder le documentaire "French Bashin" de 2015 . Vous allez mieux comprendre pourquoi ils nous détestent
Really? Get Africans to speak more French and France will become a superpower? How delusional can you be?
@Negasso Kadir yep that's how white people think
Are you accusing this guy of being delusional for what the French government's goals and expectations are? He's only giving you information on what they think would work
@@theduke6174
This is a certain strain of french conservatism/nationalism.He is speaking information sure but to be certain it is propaganda. It has a motive to manipulate you're mind. Nothing wrong with either of those things by the way but you need to get it.....facts and logic agreeing with you're views isn't intrinsic or factual. it all has a purpose. By the way show me how macron current french leader is in sync with current year
this is the twisted neo-colonial manner of thinking of a historically egocentric culture that is in terminal demographic decline. let France control its dictionary while the US and China control the world
Depends how strong can France hold the EU. And how strong can the EU become.
Me AndMeToo The EU has a very big chance to fall in 10 years time
@@lucaudrea170 but if it survives to this period of strife it will come out has a new superpower. And many french including me will work on it.
Agreed. The EU is already strong though and France finally got rid of the UK competition.
@@calvinhoward3808 Yup. Now France has the strongest army on Europe after the Russians.
Curious to see whether we can leverage that to anything useful in the future.
Calvin Howard Yep, the only military power left in the EU is France after the UK (the most powerful nation in the EU military wise) left.
good stuff shirvan
Lets be honest,
When reading this title you felt angry and wanted to say no even before you watched the video.
Why
@@saupiquet7516 hastag boycott france
France: Making Lingua Franca Literal Again
underrated comment loll
Lingua franca was never literally referring to French. It was an actual language, a mediterranean trade pidgin based on Italian but incorporating elements from languages all around the coast. "Franks" in this context were all western catholics according to byzantines and muslims.
@@migkillerphantom They called all westerners Franks because most or them was French (first and last crusade was 99% french) and French was the most numerous people in europe untill 19e century (France was called the China OF EUROPE )
Franc in old francique (germanic tribes located in current netherland) means free... France = country of free mans
Lingua franca = free language
@@migkillerphantom Rather than Italian, it was mostly based on Occitan.
Nice
I'm pretty sure many French people will agree that this is not realistic, I as a French person prefer English not because is superior to French. You just have more access to knowledge in English and people than you would in another language. Especially when it comes to entertainment, it is generally dominated in English.
English is obviously the best language. English is the first global lingua franca. English is the language of the future. English is the only language in the world that is an official language in countries on all six permanently inhabited continents. The English language has the most books, the most films, the most songs, the most science publications, the most web-sites, arguably the most speakers (ahead of even Mandarin if people who know only a few words of English are counted), it is the official language of both the sea (i.e. Seaspeak) and the sky (i.e. Airspeak) and it will someday become humanity's universal language of space (de jure or otherwise). English was also the first language spoken by humans on another world besides Earth (i.e. the Moon). Arabic, French, Russian, Spanish and Mandarin cannot compete with the linguistic leadership of English.
...Je suis désole mais ça c'est la vérité....a l’école j'ai étudié 3 langues étrangères...et malheureusement Je n'a pas eu pas la possibilité de parler ou écrire Français de long temps, 30 ans ..... It took me long to write this simple sentence, and helped with all the accents with thresaurus, very helpful by the way.
We are forgetting that speaking foreign languages is an advantage, it enlarges your horizon anyway......
I should be able to respect the culture of the other, but also expecting my own to be respected equally.
So for my advantage I shall try to learn still now new languages if I can. This simply put.
Rishi English as first language spoken by humans well history say otherwise the first languages spoken by humans was the Sindhi languages and the Mesopotamian languages and Nordic languages not English.......English case into being in medieval period so....yea u are wrong there
Fuzzydunlop90 reading his comment again well yes I did
You're not a true frenchman though.
French gives you access to our art and literature, and it is far richer than anything you could have with english.
This was analyzed and explained beautifully
Britain begins sweating nervously
Go to see the airport of Paris and Paris Subway
You'll get the answer
@Alex Cyriac
No, 5 in fact, Paris-Le Bourget Airport, Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport 1, Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport 2 (CDG2), Paris-Beauvais Airport, Paris Orly Airport . Except CDG2, the others are actually very small ones .
Have a look on the NYC subway then, it is even worse
@ i talked about the stupid subway point, not going to argue with you on anything else.
@@fcalvaresi And that's exactly why France amounts to nothing. Ironic isn't it?
I speak French and the answer is no...
You also give up in life too quickly lmao
It's irrelevant you know!
@@bryanitza-chulopez1658 france did give up a battle to win the war
I don't know what stands for "superpower" so I'm not gonna respond to your title.
There is an argument to be made about France becoming the predominant power in Europe and one of the main players in the world. The reason is quite simple : the US "isolationnist"' (for lack of a better term) trend that probably will continue.
I'm using Peter Zeihan's arguments here which basically goes like this : with the US influence rescinding, the US navy will stop ensuring safe passage for trade and stop granting such easy access to its big consumer market. That means that the countries that will get the most out of this "new world order" are the countries that can easily trade with themselves, have a young demographics that can consume enough to absord the national production, and have a navy capable to secure exports and imports (especially energy and other essentials) in order to replace for themselves what used to be the role of the US navy.
It just so happened that France checks all the marks here, and there are not so many countries that do.
To the Zeihan's argument I would add that France still has the "geopolitical will" that people take for delusion of grandeur, and that will, as deluded it might be, is still a necessary psychological condition for an ambitious strategy.
I would also add that France is a 15 centuries old nation and it is really not the first time that some people say that France's day are over, but France always come back and always near to the top if not on top, so if history is of any help here I would argue it may well be repeating itself.
In conclusion I simply believe that France is a good candidate to become the predominant power in western Europe and thus one of the major player in the world.
Does that make it a "superpower" ? I don't think so because there will still be great regions of the world where France's reach will not make it a major player there : the Americas and south east asia.
But France will probably be the predominant power in western Europe and still be a major player in Africa. As for the Middle-East I don't know. So far outside of Lebanon France's influence is limited, but since the US seem to withdraw from that region, who knows how the cards will be reshuffled here.
All that said, I really don't know to which degree the "francophone strategy" will help here.
Well part of being a superpower is if you can leverage global power projection and if France can compete with the US navy in any capacity in the future then it will be a superpower. I see the US being basically being the China of the west: periods of integration with the global economy and periods of isolation. When the US integrates it is dominant during that period, much like China. China will not be a conquered power again any time in the foreseeable future and the US will similarly fit that capacity. Both have regional holds and I'm curious to see if the US will invest more in Latin America.
In this context like you said I think France has the chance to really bloom in this sphere. The US is happy to let a friendly power rise and as long as the French properly integrate in Africa economically and militarily (I imagine a large expansion of the French foreign legion if they can create political allegiance which can be carried as long as the French military is the guard of these countries) then France can easily become the guardian of the eastern Mediterranean and half of Africa. I see the west Mediterranean being taken by Turkey and what's left being taken by Iran. Both are stable powers in an unstable area which have a way to unite the region and industrialize to power their dominance. So it'll be interesting to see how that develops.
The Indo Pacific region is attracting the most business and creativity. This is why it is such a conflicting region.
Thanks for the insight on soft power, your arguments really opened a different perspective!
France will be a medium power, like GB and Germany
and if the 3 work together, they will be a Worldpower.
Yup too bad the Brits though it would be better to destroy something it too a world war and a cold war to make smh.
James Legrand it’s not all about power, it’s about what the people want, and the people would never want a federal, United europe. Maybe the Germans and Belgians because Belgium has no unity, and Germans are terrified of their own history. But never proud, old countries like Uk, Ireland,France or Poland for example.
Britain already has an Anglophone Commonwealth.
@@adamtoner3870 you people know that a united Europe would not actually be a single nation where everyone goes from French english and German to the abstract idea of European over day ?
If Europe becomes a country it's would most likely be a try of government with representatives of every nation making the heads of state a single economy and a single armed forces.
The objective would mainly be to sort out the Euro to better adapt it the weaker nation same to make an armed forces that's has a semblance of uniformity.
@@billwilson6248 you know that the commonwealth isn't that sincere a commitment right?
This was pretty funny Thanks I needed that laugh
Vive la France!! vive la République!!!!!