Manche

And, the way the war started, started as if the, in the way that the military planners had wanted it to start.

I left you last time with the Schlieffen Plan, and Schlieffen literally on his deathbed said that the last German soldier, his sleeve, should touch the Manche, the English Channel, and that in order to put France into a headlock, put Paris into a headlock like that, you should sweep this way through Belgium.

They'd eliminated the Netherlands as part of that invasion route, that would come in World War II, but they didn't need the Netherlands in this case, but they would march into neutral Belgium, neutral since 1831, knowing that this would bring the British into the war, because the British could Belgium, occupied by a potentially very hostile power.

And so, Germany is under pressure to win the war quickly.

It's sick.

Imagine not going to Manche- or not going to Hyde 'cause Shipman was there.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

dans un contexte où la même Le Pen a déclaré avoir souhaité son départ.

Un autre point de tension a été le lac symbolique signé par Bardella à Birmingham, avec Nigel Farage et le Parti Reforme, visant à renvoyer en France les migrants traversant la Manche.

L'initiative a été rapidement critiquée par les adversaires présidentiels, qui l'y ont décrite comme « désavantageuse pour la France ».

Et la même Le Pen n'a exprimé aucun soutien explicite, malgré les questions des journalistes de The Vingt Heures.