French warship joins US-UK-Japanese fleet threatening North Korea
By
Athiyan Silva
4 May 2017
Amid the US military escalation and growing nuclear war tensions in the Korean peninsula, the French Socialist Party (PS) government has sent a Mistral-class warship to join exercises led by the US military alongside the Japanese Navy. The Mistrals are amphibious assault helicopter carriers that participated in the Libyan War in 2011.
On Saturday, the ship reached the Sasebo naval base in Japan’s western island of Kyushu to join with US armada threatening North Korea and China. It will participate in joint military exercise from the second to the third week of this month, alongside the US, Japanese and British navies near islands including Guam and Tinian in the western Pacific, around 2.400 km from Japan.
This deployment is an unambiguous threat to North Korea and China. Reuters News commented that the move is intended send “a clear message to China.”
France’s Socialist Party (PS) government and its political ally, PS-backed presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, are accomplices in the war drive led by billionaire US President Donald Trump. After its unprovoked bombing of Syria on April 7, Washington turned its attention back to North Korea and Trump recently threatened the nuclear-armed country with “major, major conflict.”
Behind the backs of the French people, the French army and the ruling elite are threatening countries that have carried out no military action against France. As the media demands voters back Macron to keep Marine Le Pen of the neo-fascist National Front (FN) from coming to power, voters are not being told that Macron’s militaristic program is part of an imperialist offensive taking the world to the brink of nuclear war.
The PS government has…