@proscience

#EUpol #DefenseUnion #France
#History #DeGaulle

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Again, agreed.

Alas, #Macron is no visionary, precognitive leader like Président #CharlesDeGaulle was. With today's hindsight, he rightly distrusted the #Americans:

"In May 1944, de Gaulle told a Soviet official “ regarding his view of the #US, "As for #America, it wanted a “docile France to make it a base for their #European policy.”1)

"“After the war,” he said in 1942, 👉“it will be necessary to give...

European leaders showed a cautiously receptive ear to President Emmanuel Macron's proposal to debate extending the French nuclear umbrella to Europe on Thursday, though some were reluctant to draw a line under years of U.S. protection.FRANCE 24's Siobhan Silke details what the extension of the nuclear deterrent could entail.
#NuclearWeapons #France #Ukraine #Russia #Macron

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