Crackpot coalitions are all the rage these days.

President Micron of France has proposed yet another crackpot coalition, this time the 'coalition of independence'.

First it was the 'coalition of the willing' to help Ukriane and now another coalition to remain independent of the influence of the USA and China.

Maybe Trump is right to be withdrawing from Europe as the leaders seems to living in la-la land.

If you have been relying on the USA to defend you for decades and on China for practically every consumer good and on Russia for cheap energy - then how exactly do you remain 'independent ' of them?

Micron is essentially pretending that EU countries like France actually matter in today's world when they have minimal natural resources and no colonies left to extract them from.

He needs to wake up and smell the Bovril.