Jacques Serais, edited by Laura Laplaud
Emmanuel Macron will detail this Wednesday the main axes of the French defense strategy, in a context dominated by the war in Ukraine. The Head of State will once again take the stage: after his speech, he will be airlifted aboard the nuclear attack submarine Suffren.
Emmanuel Macron is moving to the Var this Wednesday. He is expected at the Toulon naval base to present France’s new strategic review and will also announce the end of Operation Barkhane in the Sahel. But this trip is above all an opportunity for the president to put himself on the stage again. As in 2017, just after his election, Emmanuel Macron will again put on the suit of the national navy for a special operation.
Emmanuel Macron will descend on the Suffren submarine… hanging on a harness
Five years ago, he was airlifted off Brest on the Le Terrible submarine. This Wednesday afternoon, the tenant of the Élysée will again climb aboard a helicopter to fly this time over the Mediterranean and descend, hanging on a harness, on the Suffren submarine off Toulon. , a nuclear attack submarine.
A staging for an image that could, as in 2017, go around the world. At the time, the American media had compared Emmanuel Macron to James Bond. An image that will undoubtedly reach Vladimir Putin, also a fan of these stagings. Quite a symbol in the context of the war in Ukraine and the new geopolitical balances while just before this underwater experience, Emmanuel Macron will set France’s strategic priorities for 2030.