Any deployment or stationing of destroyers around the Strait of Hormuz under the pretext of protecting navigation is nothing but an escalation of the crisis.

The presence of French and British warships in the Strait of Hormuz will face an immediate and decisive response.

Maritime navigation security cannot be achieved through military power demonstrations.

The source of insecurity is the use of force and constant threats against coastal countries, as well as naval blockades.

Venezuela is a very happy country right now. They were miserable, and now they are happy.

The oil that’s coming out is enormous.

President Xi is a good and smart man. He loves China.

We're not ruling out any option regarding Iran in the upcoming phase, including military action.

We have never considered deploying a force to reopen Strait of Hormuz. That has never been France's option.

There's a coup in Mali, and you no longer want France because you no longer want to fight terrorism? We're leaving. As we say in good French: "No offense."

Unfortunately, current events show that this was probably not the best decision the Malian coup leaders made for their country.

Africa is a continent that I no longer want France to look at as being a backyard where business leaders would have all the rights or all the contracts guaranteed to them because it was Francophone Africa, or where some considered that France gave a form of guarantee in being there to make or unmake governments.

It’s finished. Since 2017, this era is over.

Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years (DELAY, DELAY, DELAY!), and then finally hit “pay dirt” when Barack Hussein Obama became President. He was not only good to them, he was great, actually going to their side, jettisoning Israel, and all other Allies, and giving Iran a major and very powerful new lease on life.

Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and 1.7 Billion Dollars in green cash, flown into Tehran, was handed to them on a silver platter. Every Bank in D.C., Virginia, and Maryland was emptied out — It was so much money that when it arrived, the Iranian Thugs had no idea what to do with it. They had never seen money like this, and never will again. It was taken off the plane in suitcases and satchels, and the Iranians couldn’t believe their luck.

They finally found the greatest SUCKER of them all, in the form of a weak and stupid American President. He was a disaster as our “Leader,” but not as bad as Sleepy Joe Biden!

For 47 years the Iranians have been “tapping” us along, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and recently wiping out 42,000 innocent, unarmed protestors, and laughing at our now GREAT AGAIN Country. They will be laughing no longer!