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>Yes, the extremely weak countries were pawns but, relatively speaking, the US let France be France and Canada be Canada. Thank you very much but we let oursel
by Bayart 7y ago
>Yes, the extremely weak countries were pawns but, relatively speaking, the US let France be France and Canada be Canada.
Thank you very much but we let ourselves be France by getting nukes as soon as possible, leaving NATO command and kicking US troops out.
- mattmanser 7y agoFrance seems almost as bad as us (the UK) at thinking they're still relevant in their post-empire age.
- Bayart 7y agoIt's got nothing to do with being relevant, or having delusions of grandeur. It's just a matter of not having terms dictated by the US, Russia or nowadays China within our effective perimeter. Back then acquiring nuclear power was essential to those aims, and building a European block was also the right answer for the foreseeable future. Stumbles aside, it seems to be fairly reasonable and workable to me. You can't just pretend everything's fine and be a good boy for the overlord of the day. In the 50s a number of people were acutely aware of the bullet we dodged in WW2 (we came quite close to being scraped apart into rump states).