New Benchmark in European Warfare: French Retreat From Battle They Never Joined

Never have I seen a country in such a rush to dump foul-smelling Seine effluent all over itself on a world stage, or be in such haste to confirm the mocking ‘Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys’ (CESM) sobriquet they’ve earned as all their sneering superiority is so often revealed as posturing to cover a rearward movement…or no movement at all.

If that’s been evident enough to keep the legend of the white flags alive over the past few decades, it has never been clearer than in the past few days.

Four days ago, the elfin President of the French Republic declared that hostilities to rid Iran of nuclear weapons and open the Strait of Hormuz were a waste of everyone’s time, meaning his.

French President Emmanuel Macron says the war on Iran does not provide a “lasting solution to the nuclear issue,” and a military operation to ‘liberate’ the Strait of Hormuz is ‘unrealistic.’

🔴LIVE updates: https://t.co/A85fq3iUdo pic.twitter.com/q9nm3pNo4s

— Al Jazeera Breaking News (@AJENews) April 2, 2026

As folks with clear vision pointed out, it was also inconvenient to countries that really had nothing to help out with who were obligated to do so. Naturally, these countries were irritated that they were being bothered in the first place, this NATO ‘ally’ BS or not.

Very true – it’s high time that France and other members of the UN Security Council acts responsibly and fairly based on the UN charter and the basic principles of integrity, honor and good faith expected from UN members, against those responsible for the war.

— Bipin Kochar (@BK0661) April 2, 2026

The next day, to bolster the teeny president’s message, what’s known as a ‘French general’ (I know, right?) went on French national TV to sneeringly tell the Americans to ‘stop snorting cocaine.’

The ones who already retreated from a war they didn’t join?

C’est le grand fromage!

— tree hugging sister 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) April 3, 2026

…This is the same man who called joining Trump’s war “buying cheap tickets for the Titanic after it hit the iceberg.” 

The French are not holding back.

Ooo lala! The FRENCH are ‘not holding back’!

For the sad remnants of a country bereft of any comeback save reminding us of Lafayette, D’Estaing, and De Grasse’s Fleet some 250 years ago – well, and now cocaine, thank YOU, Hunter Biden – it’s about time we began returning the ‘really?’

They would be German if not for those coke snorting Americans.

— MarkWhittington (@MarkWhittington) April 3, 2026

Particularly when the domestically abused teeny tyrant turns around… 

Very hilarious. Pathetically so.pic.twitter.com/muXWfGEh4w

— Ironball (@Ironball_T) April 3, 2026

…and shoves a shiv in the back of the very country that provides his safety umbrella, however much it irks his snotty Gallic sensibilities.

Old habits die hard pic.twitter.com/seMtIXEpoq

— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) April 3, 2026

As David posted that same day, the French voted with Russia and China against a UAE-sponsored coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

…First, we learned that France joined Russia and China to veto a UAE-proposed resolution to create a coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, because of course they did. And now we are getting reports that Iran has cut some sort of deal with Iran to guarantee safe passage for their ships through the Strait.

And then, as the CESMs would say, ‘voilà!’ The strangest thing happened.

…Earlier today, a French cargo ship was the first Western craft to brave the passage of the Strait of Hormuz.

I believe it’s one of those telling moments. With a President like Donald Trump, such flagrant, shameful double-dealing doesn’t go unremarked upon and without consequences.

France was the only Western country to vote ‘NO’ at the UN Security Council to authorize Arab nations to use force to open the strait.

France voted with China & Russia.
That was yesterday.
Today, French ships are passing through the strait.

I don’t believe in coincidences. https://t.co/DPxmBJXNJK

— David D. Chapman (@DavidD_Chapman) April 3, 2026

Look at the company the French are keeping.

BREAKING NEWS:

Several Indian, Pakistani, Turkish, and French ships have been granted permission to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. pic.twitter.com/3duozIWarS

— China Now (@ChinaNow24) April 6, 2026

Macron has also laid himself wide open on his rhetoric, combining the United States and China as if they were two sides of the same evil, imperialist coin.

Before he sold out to the Iranians for access to Hormuz, Macron was posturing to the world as the advocate for freeing itself from the corrupting influence of both powers.

But the French presidential poof de creme seems interested in only dealing with the country that would eat the fetid remains of France alive.

On the heels of the French betrayal during the UN vote, the UAE has withdrawn from a contract to co-develop a fighter variant for its Air Force with a French manufacturer.

🚨MUST READ From @Tamir114 about another French betrayal of the US and NATO: “This week, the Gulf states requested to submit a proposal at the UN to open the Strait of Hormuz “by all means.” Who opposed it? Russia, China, and… France. As if by magic, shortly thereafter, a… https://t.co/TkMAunm9D3

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) April 5, 2026

…Macron’s France not only fails to assist its Western allies – it stabs them in the back and gladly pays protection money to the Iranian terror regime.

Since the days of the Vichy regime, it seems that degradation and humiliation have become an inseparable part of modern France’s DNA. It is not a superpower, but a carpet on which the world’s bullies tread nonchalantly.

It is time for the Trump administration to act to revoke France’s veto power in the Security Council – a right that should be granted to superpowers, not carpets.“

Degradation and humiliation pretty fairly sum up the state of the French right now.

If Macron thought Trump’s jibes about getting smacked in the chops by the little French first lady were in ‘poor taste,’ he is not going to like what happens next, and he’ll have earned every second of it. Every last treacherous second.

A dip in the Seine on a hot summer day is going to look refreshing in comparison.

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