The final point over France's growing military importance to the United States has been visible to anyone who has interacted with US policymakers on defence and European border issues yet is a trend a lot of the UK's defence community is still in a weird state of denial over https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1325661227683631104

The point the British "but 5 Eyes" crowd never understood is that by not handing most info to the US on a plate and running their own semi-autonomous military networks, the French and Italians often have more leverage about shaping shared structures with the US than the UK does

A hint of Gaullism often leads to healthier relations with the US