Posted originally on Feb 19, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

Macron just said  “Free speech is pure bullshit if nobody knows how you are guided to this so-called free speech, especially when it is guided from one hate speech to another.” He expect the EU to clash with Trump because they are in dire straights and when a country is in the death spiral, they will become increasingly authoritarian. The two worst offenders are France and Spain. Macron has been covertly telling French institutions to sell dollars and bring the money home pushing the euro higher which then reduced their trade surplus.

Last April 2025, in response to Trump’s sweeping tariffs, Macron called for European companies to suspend planned investment in the United States, stating “Investments to come or investments announced in recent weeks should be suspended until things are clarified with the United States”

Macron has been pushing “targeting digital services and financing mechanisms of the US economy.” We are seeing that in trying to come up with a European credit card and banning both Visa and Mastercard.

At Davos 2026, Macron noted that European savings are “overinvested in bonds and sometimes in equities – but outside Europe,” suggesting he wants Europeans to invest more domestically. They call Macron the Petite Napoleon. Despite his approval rating at 11%, probably lower than any world leader in history, he is carrying on the dream of Napoleon and Charles De Gaulle who destroy the gold standard because of his hated of the United States. He withdrew France from NATO which is why they have independent nukes. De Gaulle ordered all US troops and NATO instalation out of France which prompted the US to ask if that included the dead America buried there to defend France.

At the Munich Security Conference in February 2026, Macron said Europe must redesign its security architecture independently and confirmed Paris is holding strategic nuclear talks with allies, referring to a more “holistic” approach to nuclear deterrence among European allies.

In an address to the nation in March 2025, Macron announced plans to negotiate with the allies the possibility of placing European countries under the protection of France’s nuclear deterrence forces. Germany, Poland, Lithuania, and Denmark have expressed readiness to discuss the issue. This is why they call him the Petit Napoleon. He is once again trying to make France the dominant power of Europe and it has been him, according to sources, who pushes to invade Russia to gain the assets to rise above the United States as a rival.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Germany does NOT want to develop its own nuclear weapons, but is interested in incorporating French and British atomic bombs in a deterrence arrangement reminiscent of NATO’s U.S.-based nuclear umbrella.

Wolfgang Ischinger at the Munich Security Conference noted that France has air-based nuclear-capable cruise missiles that can be deployed from Rafale aircraft, and “perhaps in the future, such systems could be stationed not only in France, as has been the case so far, but also in Poland or Germany, on a rotating or even permanent basis. Yes, one could even consider replicating the US model of nuclear sharing, whereby these weapons could be launched from suitable partner aircrafts.”

Macron’s proposal are definitely an offer to build an independent nuclear deterrent within the EU framework. Any arrangement whereby Paris would transfer sovereignty over the use of its own nuclear bombs to an EU institution or another state is a no-go in terms of domestic politics. Macron wants to replace the US and retain control of all nukes, not hand them over to the EU.

So yes—Macron has offered extended nuclear protection to Europe, and discussions about potentially stationing French nuclear-capable systems in Germany (similar to NATO’s nuclear sharing arrangement) are part of the conversation, though final decision-making would remain with France.

Behind the curtain, it has been Macron who is trying to replace the USA and lead all of Europe as the modern version of Napoleon. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has emphasized that European nations cannot defend themselves against Russia without the support of the United States, suggesting that they would need to significantly increase their defense spending in the absence of U.S. assistance. He warned that losing U.S. support would undermine Europe’s security and freedom. Rutte said bluntly during an appearance at the European Parliament: “If anyone thinks here again that the European Union, or Europe as a whole, can defend itself without the U.S., keep on dreaming,”

This is why reliable sources see through Macron seeking to seize power and take Europe into a third World War in hopes to leading Europe and fulfilling the dream of Napoleon and Charles De Gaulle. It was De Gaulle who was redeeming dollars for gold believing that if france had the larges gold reserves that the franc would replace the dollar.

Charles De Gaulle was an extreme nationalist far worse than they acuse Trump today. He objected in February 1965 to what he called the “Exorbitant Privilege” of the US dollar’s dominant role and began converting France’s dollar reserves into gold, which put pressure on Bretton Woods. In 1967, I was there in Montreal with my Family at the World’s Fair. My father had met De Gaulle bing with Patton who liberated France. My father was a colonel with Patton and told me how De Gaulle demanded that he lead the victory parade ahead of the Americans as he liberated France. In Montreal, he encouraged Quebec to separate from Canada because they were the English. He was still anti-American and British all because they defeated Napoleon. He refused to allow Britain to join the European Community. Britain joined ONLY after De Gaulle died. Macron seems to be suffering from De Gaulle syndrome.