You probably thought it was not possible to accurately equate the relations between nation states with personal human relationships. That is because you probably didn’t hear the latest declaration of French love and affection by the French President Emmanuel Macron to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Friendship between the two nations (according to Macron, un mot terrible) the result of World Wars I and II, les guerres terrible, has grown into a grand marital (not martial) affection, mirroring presumably, the immortal words of Ryan O’Neil in Love Story, “Love is never having to say you are sorry.
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