Apparently Sarko and the EU showed themselves to be important diplomatically over the Russia-Georgia spat:
Few believe Mr Sarkozy's claim to have talked Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, out of going all the way to Tbilisi, but at the time, the dialogue between the two men was the only game in town, and the means by which the Russian columns withdrew, albeit partially. European diplomacy, so easy to dismiss, stuttered back to life."Stuttered back to life" - really? Sure it wasn't just the Russians saying "Fuck off, you tossers, while we finish what we came for"?
And it was Sarko who saved the world from financial doom - not Gordon Brown:
Mr Sarkozy knocked together heads both in and out of the eurozone, and showed that the EU was capable of taking collective decisions when it mattered.Collective decisions that came after the crisis had happened and after many countries had already acted on their own initiative. Collective decisions which are useless, it should also be said.
But here's the juicy bit:
And the Irish government kept the Lisbon treaty alive by agreeing to a second referendum next year.The Irish kept it alive? Sorry, but I thought they had a free vote which technically should have killed it stone dead (for the second time). Which it should have done if the EU were a democratic institution and not the unelected dictatorship it actually is.
The writer continues this soviet-style applause by insulting the Czech Republic (wonder why? check this out) :
What if two major international crises had happened during the presidency of a smaller member nation, like the Czech Republic, which takes over for the next six months?The answer is: fuck all, the same as really happened under Sarkozy.
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