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...He demanded and got a new #French constitution with a strong executive, which established the “Fifth Republic” that has endured to the present."1)
"👉Charles #deGaulle recognized from the beginning that nuclear bomb would have immense consequences...👈
By the end of his two‐decade ’nuclear learning process’, he was convinced that the #bomb would have profound effects on how statesmen...
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...#Europe a sense of herself; if not, American political administrators will come to colonize Europe with their primitive methods and their overweening pride. 👈They will treat us all as if were negroes in Senegal! To rebuild Europe, we will need #Germany, but a Germany that has been first defeated, unlike the situation in 1918.”1)
Despite his disdain for multi-party democracies, 👉#DeGaulle..."👉was also a resolute European. In the postwar era, he hoped to fashion a... @proscience
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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...
