Comments by "King Ace" (@kingace6186) on "Why France and Germany have fallen out" video.

  1. Yeah, that's why de Gaulle withdrew French forces from NATO's integrated command. Strategic autonomy is a great idea, but, post-war, no French President has actually pulled it off at a European level. His dream of collective European Defense w/o the US is often labeled as "Europeanist" by the French Right, and Le Pen is a nationalist first, so Germany might get their way on the issue of defense. And honestly, the Right does have a point w/ that label. Before 2022, Macron was trying to get both Ukraine AND Russia into the EU to create a true European Superpower. Even w/o hindsight, that's insanity.
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  2.  @DeutschlandMapping  Especially in Eastern Europe.
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  3.  @odoakerrex2787  The Northern European & Mediterranean "spheres" of the EU. Tho, it should be noted that this is more of a tendency than a standard norm (what Berlin & Paris want).
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  4.  @fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617  Aw. This is cute.
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  5. Ie: how they safeguard and practically campaign for the French military-industrial complex.
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  6. Let's be real. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lighting II & F-22 Raptor are the two most-capable planes ever invented. Of course, Germany would choose them after seeing Russia invade a European nation and destroy the Spirit of Helsinki. This reminds me of the time when Macron was trying to sell the Australian Defense Force some French-made old, cold-war-era, diesel-powered submarines to counter the threat of China's PLAN. (These were subs that France no longer wanted.) Yet, France once again got mad at the US when the Australians chose the better American bid of fast-attack, nuclear-powered, Virgina-class submarines. (These are new subs that have been in commission only since 2004.) Australia even paid the penalty for canceling the deal, too.
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  7. I sincerely hope that he just forgot to read the "post-war" part of that line.
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  8.  @Askorti  Millennia if we go back to the Romans and Celts. The people that inhabited the British Isles and the lands which are now France have rarely gotten along with each other.
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