Colonialism is a double edged sword. France now has a responsibility to those islands. The Netherlands has the same problem: a bunch of fairly useless Caribbean

Colonialism is a double edged sword. France now has a responsibility to those islands. The Netherlands has the same problem: a bunch of fairly useless Caribbean islands that were a good idea at the time but are an anachronistic leftover from a different past now. It would be criminal to just dump them now.