Bloody stupid of him, even for his goal of European "third-pole". Pissed off the US, Taiwan, eastern EU, Ukraine, EU gov, Japan, South Korea, all the French citizens in the South Pacific, the list goes on. All at the exactly wrong moment too. Could have just not said anything, took the Americans money and worked towards that "third-pole". But what can you expect from a man whose recent actions could put the French euro-skeptics in power, thereby rendering France not part of that "third-pole". Or, who can't get France's economy to start growing for the first time in ten years due his own self-serving ineptitude, thereby rendering them, the...err, "12th pole" in 50 years and with a retirement age of 96!