The final point over France& #39;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& #39;s defence community is still in a weird state of denial over https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1325661227683631104">https://twitter.com/tnewtondu...

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