How do the Americans wage economic war against France? — Arnaud Montebourg, former French Minister of Economy explains

Incredible, and maybe even unprecedented, answer by Arnaud Montebourg – former French Minister of Economy – to the question “what method do the Americans use to wage economic warfare against us?”

“They use military tools. First of all, they use all the listening and intelligence systems that they built on after 9/11. They don’t listen to terrorists…well they certainly do and that’s very good…but they listen to foreign companies that compete with theirs.

So it’s very simple, it became clear in 2014 when Snowden revealed that there were 75 million conversations and emails that had been exploited by the NSA on France, on French companies. When Pierucci – a man who should wear the Legion of Honor today because he defended France rather than its interests by agreeing to serve two unjustified years in prison in US jails in the Alstom affair… when Mr. Pierucci was taken into custody in Manhattan by the prosecutors they put under his nose 1 million emails. How did they get 1 million emails? By illegal eavesdropping. 1 million emails: it would have taken a lawyer 3 years to read through them… so he couldn’t defend himself. So those are the military tools.

Second, they have a tool called extraterritorial law. The Americans are using a form of law, which is an imperialist law, which consists in declaring themselves competent for matters which in no way concern them.