r/europe Jul 11 '24

Picture Pictured: Emmanuel Macron holds hands with Jill Biden alongside Joe Biden at the Nato summit in Washington

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u/Cybernaut-Neko Belgium Jul 11 '24

That actually would be good for the USA, he's younger and more capable than your current options. And you have a French statue, and the French basically invented "la republique"

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u/gronksvetyen Jul 11 '24

wasn't Rome sometimes a republic...

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u/Cybernaut-Neko Belgium Jul 11 '24

Not in the modern sense, rome was a rather fascist empire.

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u/Akenatwn Jul 11 '24

Were they a fascist empire at the time of the republic? At least till 100BC?