France is working with partners on a plan over how to respond should the United States act on its threat to take over Greenland, Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Wednesday.
France is working with partners on a plan over how to respond should the United States act on its threat to take over Greenland, Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Wednesday.
He was a realist in the most cynical sense. Maybe because of French experience throughout history that their allies no longer become allies as time goes on. The French used to be allies with the Ottomans. Then Russia used to be allied the West until the collapse of the tsardom (well, even in Putin’s earlier years as president, he had warm relations with the West until the late 00s). UK and France used to be bitter rivals but now have warm relations.