Macron can BS all he wants about "space", "strategy", "partnerships", and how France being the home of the baguette somehow makes France a natural at rocketry.
The Unobtainium that matters is having a SpaceX-ish organization, actually able to design/build/operate/scale the necessary launch hardware.
(To be fair to Macron - I can't recall that any politician, ever, has faced up to that fact.)
Macron can BS all he wants about "space", "strategy", "partnerships", and how France being the home of the baguette somehow makes France a natural at rocketry.
The Unobtainium that matters is having a SpaceX-ish organization, actually able to design/build/operate/scale the necessary launch hardware.
(To be fair to Macron - I can't recall that any politician, ever, has faced up to that fact.)