In questo giorno del 1959, Charles de Gaulle divenne il primo presidente della Quinta Repubblica francese. Ha sfidato Washington, ha costruito un arsenale nucleare e ha consolidato una visione di indipendenza militare strategica che oggi è più attuale che mai
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Imagine if all of Europe did the same as France and built their own equipment. We wouldn’t be in the situation we are in now.
There’d still be the issue of fragmentation, but that can be solved through integration and streamlining through the EU; speeding up the ever-closer Union 🇪🇺.
I won’t lie, he was the greatest man of the 20th century. If only our current president had even 5% of the man he was.
the fucking french were so right all along 😿 god damn it Charles.
He kicked out NATO HQ from Paris and forced them to slum it in Brussels. Respect.
I apologize.
On top of preventing the colonization plans that US had for France 10y prior. The US post war plans for France were completely unhinged with US soldier coming in during the landings with fake puppet money to destabilise the local economy and to legitimise setting up a US puppet state.
Roosevelt personal distaste of the man nearly led to a massive conflict straight after the war.
This chain if event led him to double down on the suspicion toward US and created the strategic planning that was followed by most presidents until the 2000s.
Edit: It did not help either that he had the example from when the US established measures to prevent France from rebuilding after WW1 while flooding Germany with money to rebuild. They also engineered a financial crisis in France during that time and prevented the Treaty of Versailles to be applied (it being harsh and the reason if the Weimar republic failing is nazi propaganda, in practice it was never really applied nor enforceable)
The only european with guts to say no and regain some sovereignty for his country whilst the rest of Europe remained as colonies.
strategic mind
In case anyone needs it, here is the De Gaulle apology form.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/2westerneurope4u/comments/1ivnsue/de_gaulle_apology_form/](https://www.reddit.com/r/2westerneurope4u/comments/1ivnsue/de_gaulle_apology_form/)
This makes me want to read all the classic Asterix albums over again🇪🇺🇫🇷
Not many French politicians of that caliber since…
Sorry France.
he understood that they couldn’t become subservient to the USA, too bad the rest of Europe didn’t understand that
Someone like him would have been considered right wing on liberal forums like reddit lol
He was still kind of a dick in inciting separatist movements in Canada during the ’67 Expo
He was also always against any real European integration and against European defense community.
Sorry Charles, i wasnt familiar with your game
“Dze Amerikans ken feuk rait oeuf” – Charles De Gaule 1959
Never realized how much he and Rene Artois looked alike.
He is the reason why NATO headquarters moved from Paris to Brussels.
De Gaulle was just a French “MAGA”.