Macron wins French presidential election

By a landslide. I think the most annoying thing about this election has been the constant “Le Pen is actually very close and might even win.” I know that the point is to drive up views and clicks but seriously, they are over 15 points apart!

This is a huge relief to me though for me as an American. Le Pen would have destroyed the transatlantic alliance and set the EU up for destruction. Her fondness for Russia in a time when we need the western alliance to be strong and unified would have been disastrous and would have created immense complications for Ukraine now and for dealing with China later on down the road.

France cannot be strong without Europe being strong and Le Pen seemed to believe colliding with other European nations would somehow bring benefits to France, which is hard to understand. The path Macron wants to go down may not be what everyone wants but at least it is one that will keep France doing moderately well instead of being in ruins.

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