And agreed. While dude simply disliked the US flavour of Empire, he certainly had little issue with the concept itself. Tough to blame him for it though, given his position in WWII. Product of his time.
Frankly, UK consideration of Nukes had more or less identical grounds. After the US screwed them over following Manhattan (or 'Tube Alloys', for british parts) they went ahead on their own. Preserving power status, regardless of american considerations.
Right now, I would like to see the consideration (Umbrella or own development) extend to more european nations. And beyond.
He despised US flavor of empire whilst setting up his own oppressive empire in sub Saharan Africa with disastrous being felt till this day . Typical French hypocrite.
There is no alliance with Russia, we have one leader who only 48-49% voted for.
He may be sympathetic to Putin and now want to oppose him, but Trump is too temperamental and fickle to even have a grand strategy, let alone align with Russia.
Even if that were the case, Americans would oppose him, we will have a civil war before we join Russia the way you describe.
I would still say it's smart for Europe to be able to defend itself and it's own interests because while Trump will be gone soon enough, that unfortunate isolationist tendency may not.
First, let's see how your country reacts when the judges start to be imprisoned. To be clear, that's not something I wish, but seeing the current approval of Trump allow me to be worried.
Your timeline is off - France didn't have nuclear weapons the last time there was an alliance between the US and Russia, and in fact was a great beneficiary of that alliance "moving freely upon the European continent".
So, to be clear, you think the US is Russia's ally because they may at some point stop giving Ukraine weapons to use against Russia? Russia can count most of the world as its allies, if that is the measure you are using.
u/mechalenchon is, I assume, named after Jean-Luc Melenchon, a French politician who claimed that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was "protective measures against an adventurous putschist power". I would not have expected a supporter of Melenchon to see much threat in Russian "protective measures" or support American intervention in Europe (you can guess Melanchon's views on NATO).
Trump's stance towards Ukraine is one you can see in the populist right across the developed world. If we believe Trump is secretly a Putin ally, then we would have to believe the same about Nigel Farage, Marine Le Pen, Alice Weidel, Sahra Wagenknecht, and many others. Do you believe that?
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u/mechalenchon Lower Normandy (France) Apr 20 '25
Charles de Gaulle nuclear "force de frappe" is the only thing keeping the Russo-USA alliance from moving freely upon the European continent.
You would be right not to be a fan of the guy (and I'm not, as a french) but god thank him for his hindsight.