In other words, everybody is incompetent except the country completely caught off guard in this situation? Sorry I just don’t buy the incompetence argument. W

In other words, everybody is incompetent except the country completely caught off guard in this situation? Sorry I just don’t buy the incompetence argument. What is going on here is geopolitical calculus. The US doesn’t care about France that much anymore. I think we all want to cling to the past, but the world is changing. Alliances come and go, things change. France and the EU have lost a lot of status with the US and I don’t think the US views them as willing partners in the US’s approach to contain China.