De Gaulle - Hero of Free France Documentary

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[@PeopleProfiles]

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[@adrianh.callais7565]

Another biography worth study is that of Jean De Lattre De Tassigny.

[@skiteufr]

The English say he was arrogant. But being proud and patriotic, loving his country more than everything else, is not arrogance. And standing up for his country, sometimes against England, is not arrogance too. That's why the French love him.

[@theawesomeman9821]

didn't he say Asia has too many Asians?

[@skiteufr]

@@theawesomeman9821 no. That must be Trump

[@hazchemel]

Very nicely put. He must have been something of a visionary too.

[@SilverSF2]

@@hazchemel Yes he was, he foresaw before WW2 that tanks would play a big role in modern combat but the military establishment did not listen to him. He also probably was a visionary in economics with his concept of “participation”. If you can find an article on it, you would be surprised by his idea.

[@rob5944]

Always against England, sour grapes?

[@mishrakaushik1]

A policitian acts like your servant to become your master. ----- Charles De Gaulle

[@cherbinsfleurisme9653]

Repeat again for me

[@robinsanders5541]

“The great asparagus” has to be one of the most French insults I’ve heard.

[@destubae3271]

Same energy as "your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries"

[@djquinn11]

@@destubae3271 : Lol, you beat me to it!

[@destubae3271]

@@djquinn11 Need to watch Monty Patton and De Holy Gaulle again.

[@AuxaneST]

That's because it is both a small insult to keep him in check and a term of endearment.

[@robertgrayraleigh]

DeGaulle was a cool dude -- gutsy and courageous. Sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but always in love with the people of France and always a friend of freedom everywhere. His positive contributions far outweighted his negatives

[@zuovelightning3510]

What about Indochina?

[@kiplingwasafurry1108]

Very accurate description, so many people get butthurt because “He WaS sO aRrOgAnT” but at times he needed to be.

[@johndoe-ss9bz]

Freedom for France, but NO FREEDOM FOR VIETNAM, NO FREEDOM FOR ALGERIA etc...

[@jme104]

@@johndoe-ss9bz You forget he gave independence to Algeria and black African countries . About Indochina he wasn't in charge at the time of the war .

[@johndoe-ss9bz]

@@jme104 Algeria had to fight hard for Independence, it was not handed to them!

[@NDnf84]

Y'all can bash him, but the obvious reality is that if he were in charge of the French military in the decade before Germany's invasion, things would have gone much differently on the Western Front.

[@dashcroft1892]

Peut-être, but I doubt if the Republic could have afforded his vision. His insistence on a separate “Free” French force and an equal spot at the planning table whilst in exile certainly highlighted his vanity. Between Monty, Patton, and De Gaulle, Ike certainly had his work cut out for him.

[@thevillaaston7811]

@@dashcroft1892 It need not have been that way for Eisenhower. If he had kept out of the way and let Montgomery run the land campaign the war would have been over sooner.

[@robertcottam8824]

​@@dashcroft1892 ? Patton was sacked after his fuck-up in Sicily.

[@skiker4560]

He was cocky, arrogant, self promoting and a damn good thing he was. The world needs people with balls. Take the good with the bad. He did more good than bad. RIP

[@TonyZoster]

He was an advisor but his advice was not listened to. In Germany many advised AH to that Invading the Soviet Union was not a good idea but those advisors were also not listened to. The US goverenemnt was advised not to get involved in Vietnam and it also didn't listen to that advice. History would have been different but that is life. In hindsight one is always wiser but by then the damage has already been done.

[@D45VR]

I was a young man working for TWA in Paris in the 60-70's and have vivid memories of the day he died and the hundreds of thousands on the Champs-Elysees. It was very moving.

[@mariabrett6712]

It was a sad day the 9th of November I visit his grave in colombey les deux églises he is my hero💔

[@martianshoes]

I'm and old manufacturing plow horse…now out to pasture…we had a saying in our field that rings true for many fields of endeavor- “Pioneers always take the most arrows”….

[@alexanderkarayannis6425]

From the documentary's very appropriate title, he had to be both, if he was to survive his long and eventful life and all the issues he had to deal with as a soldier and later as a politician...He WAS France, in so many ways...from another biographical book's title I read about him recently,and a man who has left his very own and indelible mark on his country's history,and not only...Larger than life in so many ways...Thank you for another well researched, and well presented, biography and for another excellent choice of a personality to do it for!...

[@nikaproust]

Well said, Alexander :)

[@mariabrett6712]

I have loved de Gaulle all my life he was a good man who loved France

[@dewycox6965]

He was intense and patriotic. A true French hero

[@eziosalimbeni6325]

I love the host's voice, absolutely phenomenal.

[@buttercupj6208]

I know

[@BHuang92]

De Gaulle was the literal expression of the French word Tour de Force

[@hubertvancalenbergh9022]

Some hero. Leading the resistance from abroad and then gloriously striding through Paris only after the Americans had liberated the capital and the rest of France. Heroic.

[@johngreally9599]

It's was never Charles who was "argumentative, stubborn, obstinate", but France itself in him. Personifying a great nation is never an easy task, especially in the face of such indifference and opposition from so many others.

[@billtaylor1231]

DeGaulle is the only french leader to leave the country better off than when he came into power. great man. Great frenchman.

[@Heisenberg882]

Phillip II? Louis IX? Phillip IV? Charles V? Charles VIII? Louis XI? Francis I? Henri iv? Cardinal Richelieu?

[@Edax_Royeaux]

Wasn't Paris a cesspit until Napoleon III turned it into the City of Lights?

[@johnlockwood1855]

not true actually he left the country in disgrace and remained isolated til his death...having said that YES he is without a doubt THE BEST president of the fifth republic and perhaps the most honest of all !

[@xxvxxv5588]

I dont consider him great at least because of the defeat in the Algerian war.

[@charlesramirez587]

​@@xxvxxv5588if anything the abandoning of Algeria was likely a good thing for France and was likely De Gaulles preference. Economic ties and paternal oversight is better than having a hostile Muslim population under Catholic rule.

[@AlexC-ou4ju]

A difficult man to get on with but undoubtedly a hero, a typically French hero though.

[@secretagent5954]

(cuz they french did heehaw during the war but shhhhh dont tell them that)

[@alexispeyrache5880]

@@secretagent5954 Man, no need to hide. History lessons in France insist more on the cowardice and collaboration of the French than on the so-called "heroic" resistance which never existed. I mean, let's take this French TV series : "Un Village Français". The main characters are a mayor who tries to reassure his village without being resistant, an industrialist who collaborates, a teacher in a relationship with a German and a policeman who arrests Jews. If there is one people who know that it is useless, it is the French.

[@anthonykeegan5913]

Why? Did ya know him

[@JosiahJS976]

@@alexispeyrache5880 Get out of here, troll. Nobody finds you funny, you’re calling people who fought the Nazis “useless”.

[@mike62mcmanus]

He came to Quebec and uttered "Vive le Québec libre" at the podium... What happened not long after were bombings of English institutions...French Quebec Nationalism began

[@johnwildy4872]

Yes, he was an arrogant Frog. Why should he not have been? He was most capable, indeed brilliant, dedicated to his country, and commanded respect even from those who didn't particularly like the excellent bastard.

[@charlesvan13]

Do they call them "frogs" because they eat frogs? (Other people do too.) Or is it because of their language sounds like frogs?

[@Venezolano410]

​@@charlesvan13 I think it's the British and their American slugs that call them frogs.

[@charlesvan13]

@@Venezolano410 I know the English speakers called them Frogs. I'm just wondering where it came from. "Kraut" was obviously because Germans eat Sauerkraut.

[@alainbrochet5610]

Do you known that frogs are very delicious not bitter and very sweet. We eat only thighs.

[@johnwildy4872]

I don't think that the English mean to be malevolent by referring to the French as "Frogs" although the term is a bit cheeky. Rivalry between those countries is a tradition. @@Venezolano410

[@bibleboy1147]

It sucks what Churchill and Roosevelt did to him.

[@tictac2therevenge291]

Churchill did give him well needed support and recognition though, unlike Roosevelt

[@wonjubhoy]

Churchill was good to de Gaulle.

[@yxada1998]

In the end, they gave his country back to his people. I am not sure any greater gift could have been offered. He and his people were utterly crushed. It sucks to have your entire nation returned to you. ( Along with support to restore it to it's rightful place in the world )

[@madsdahlc]

He was a man who belived in the glory of his nation . And thats France should maintain it’s independe and continue the fight against nazi germany….

[@Crashed131963]

Glad Germany and Japan did not surrender like France and have their own version of de Gaulle and continued fighting anyways after they surrendered.

[@jme104]

@@Crashed131963 Whot ???

[@curanderotango]

He was a great patriot, someone who always put his nation and the honor and the prosperity of his nation before everything else in his life. May France forever pay homage to his memory and may God bless him always wherever he is!!...

[@destroyerarmor2846]

Africa disagrees

[@jme104]

@@destroyerarmor2846 He gave independence to the french colonies, you know little about history .

[@destroyerarmor2846]

@@jme104 Why has France assassinated African Presidents and overthrown several African government. Why is your military still occupying some African countries?

[@destroyerarmor2846]

@@jme104 All blame on the Rwandan genocide can be pointed to France. All French activities in Africa serve ulterior motives

[@jme104]

@@destroyerarmor2846 Why do you think I'm french, simpleton ?

[@jessemery3976]

With his early awareness of Germany it had to be destiny that he was involved in the biggest military conflict that ever was against Germany

[@bibleboy1147]

same for Churchill

[@patcerra6714]

u mean watching from the sidelines safely in the united kingdom. The last thing Eisenhower and Churchill needed was that arrogant frog prick screwing up their plans hence why he was kept at arms length as long as possible.

[@jeffblackard9753]

Uttered literally the most important realpolitik quote of all time. “Nations don’t have Allie’s. They have temporary interest!”

[@danicornea]

For me Gen. DE GAULLE was a national hero for France...not only for his endeavours in ww2 to liberate France from the Nazi, but also for endind the useless algerian conflict in 1962....

[@leslieschumacher892]

A great man, a hero.

[@Bertie22222]

As the germans were invading France he went on a four year holiday in London. Nice hotel, nice food, a true hero

[@GeoNoob]

​@@Bertie22222are you stupid? It was not "a holiday" he was simply in exile and he didn't have a choice because his own country literally sentenced him to death. Stop bashing him cause he's french

[@mercomania]

Nicely tucked away in London.

[@MyMakeDo]

He was no friend of Canada.

[@tictac2therevenge291]

He was a good friend of French Canada.

[@Heisenberg882]

vive le quebec libre

[@rolandwhittle8527]

Hello a very interesting documentary one main thing missing was about his private life and family. Concerning his personality I guess he suffered from what I call the marmite syndrome you either liked him or hate him. Like all great leaders to get anywhere you have to tread over other people's feelings to make progress like our Field Marshal Montgomery another difficult personality. Know doubt he was a difficult person but France was a difficult nation to sort out and rebuild from their trauma. But he fought on to victory for France as a new nation.

[@richarddetriquet9642]

DeGaulle was a lion and a fighter for freedom. The British never knew what to make of him... austere, serious, principled, unflappable. He never cow towed to anyone including Churchill and FDR. They both despised him. Viscount Slim was the best commander Britain produced in WW2. His memoirs are incredibly honest on how he got beat, went to India, then went back and whipped the Japanese. Montgomery is not in his league, an angry, self absorbed, plodding, unimaginative commander. Patton called him a "ferocious rabbit"!

[@terrystephens1102]

An excellent presentation, thank you.

[@zacharymcmullen9444]

“A little bitta column A, a little bitta column B~”

[@jamesconstable3680]

Great video as always !!

[@steveaustin7306]

Got a card table he used to sit at andvplay cards with my greatgrandfather

[@ivankasimeonova6293]

Thank you! It was really usefull, very interesting content. The world needs more people like Charles de Gaulle. But I am curious about one thing: How did you choose the coin at the end of the video to be the Bulgarian 1 lev coin?

[@PeopleProfiles]

Thanks for the praise, it was the best stock footage we could find.

[@RuinMassia]

Never in the field of human conflict has one man do so little, yet take so much glory

[@stankatic8182]

I didn't know there were Metro shelf laundry bags in WWI ! Thanks for bringing that to light.

[@romelnegut2005]

Like many before him, he was both and that's because the situation demanded that from him.

[@hansvonessen6259]

Very good video about General Charles De Gaulle to me. Please make us the one about Otto Von Bismarck as me and my friends want to know more about him. Thanks.🙂

[@PeopleProfiles]

We will 😁

[@hansvonessen6259]

@@PeopleProfiles Thanks a lot for the reply with YES from you our friend. We are very glad to hear that. 👏💕✌️😃🙂😚😊😍☺️ 💕💕💕

[@ethanramos4441]

@@hansvonessen6259 They already made one but they can remake it

[@tonylove4800]

He must be absolutely loving the Brexit fiasco. He made sure to keep the Brits out while he could.

[@johnpettipas3763]

AN EXCEPTIONALLY. GREAT 👍 MAN

[@Bertie22222]

🤣

[@waltertaljaard1488]

He most probably wouldn''t have survived WW1, if he wasn't a POW for most of the time.

[@TonyZoster]

The enemy doctors saved his life. How galling to remember that all your life

[@djackmanson]

I appreciate you have to keep videos under a certain length to make them watchable. But I think De Gaulle's postwar career merits a whole video on its own. Manoeuvring his way back to the presidency, recognising that French imperialism in Algeria had had its day, and as a result of that, putting down coups and dodging assassination attempts are a great story. Add in his attempts to preserve French freedom of action in a world of two great superpowers, and his leadership as the Common Market got stronger, and that's easily an hour's worth of material.

[@lynnhuston8284]

He was a true patriot wish we had more like that

[@TonyZoster]

“The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer

[@scottadkins7322]

DeGaulle was a royal a**hole, but...IMPORTANTLY, he gave much of his life for the freedom and independence of France. And for that, he is rightly regarded as a hero of France, and given France's position in the world today . . . I submit, one of the great figures of Western democracy in the 20th century. Viva la France!!

[@Crashed131963]

Glad Germany and Japan did not surrender like France and have their own version of de Gaulle and continued fighting anyways after they surrendered.

[@jme104]

@@Crashed131963 Whot ?

[@Heisenberg882]

It's vive not viva

[@myguitar5724]

Great video!

[@cards0486]

He could be both. He WAS both.

[@theblackprince1346]

The new artwork is looking really good.

[@PeopleProfiles]

An improvement?

[@theblackprince1346]

@@PeopleProfiles I did like the previous style but personally I think the new style looks better. Looks like a painting.

[@PeopleProfiles]

Good, thanks 249.

[@connordevereaux759]

Viva la France 🇫🇷 Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@secretagent5954]

france sucks youre welcome youre still here

[@liosan431]

@@secretagent5954 and why does france suck?

[@stankatic8182]

Tell that to the Vietnamese and Algerians.

[@alexandrechampagne8970]

-"Vive le Québec LIBRE!" Charles De Gaulle, 1967.....

[@D45VR]

100%

[@Anubis-hm7ro]

Thank you

[@fatbloke143]

Enjoyed this very much. Just one correction: it's pronounced "DEL-a-no" not "de-LAH-no"

[@haryburtoiu5111]

R.I.P. MON GENERAL. VIVE LA FRANCE !

[@ethanramos4441]

“A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeves, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his excited and breathless.” Charles de Gaulle

[@er6071]

I enjoyed this.

[@adamscease4126]

Old chuckles

[@alexanderdoddy7590]

Very curious how things would have changed, if the Anglo-Franco union had occurred

[@Baamthe25th]

I doubt it was possible (And that's why it failed, imo)

[@alexanderdoddy7590]

@@Baamthe25th True, it was very unlikely to have succeeded long term. However, a short term (20 year) union for stability could have had a chance .

[@Truhania]

De Gaulle is without a doubt the greatest leader France ever has. He's superior to Napoleon who took over a strong France and left it weakened. De Gaulle took France when it was almost dead twice and each time left it stronger than when he took it. In 1940 France had lost the war, when he left in 1946 France was among the winners having its own occupation zone in germany. In 1958 France was on the verge of collapse again when he left in 1969 its economy was stronger, its international weight increased, it belonged to the nuclear nation club. Not many politicians can say they left their country in a better shape than when they took over. De Gaulle did it twice.

[@Bertie22222]

Getting 3 Billion dollars from the US after the war helped

[@Clipgatherer]

He just couldn’t cope with the student riots and strikes of 1968, and when his constitutional reform bill failed the next year, de Gaulle resigned. He was often seen as stubborn, haughty and an archconservative, but he was truly a great man and we don’t see too many of those these days.

[@mariabrett6712]

I agree with you

[@borja1000]

A true patriot indeed! His arrogance was best displayed at the infamous "Quebec livre" incident which could have been talked in this video.

[@brentsummers7377]

Imagine the chaos in 1944 if Charles de Gaulle had command of several divisions & had to work with Patton and Montgomery. Even Eisenhower would have struggled to make that work😂

[@ochan4884]

Good presentation. It is sad that he had to retire/die as a man rejected by his own people, although loved.

[@carlhicksjr8401]

DeGaulle was... complicated. Vain, prideful, stiff-necked and abrasive, these are common assessments of the man. But he was also incredibly smart [though not the genius he thought he was], an incredible political operator, and decisive. And whatever else Charles DeGaulle was, whatever may otherwise be said about him, he was first and foremost a French patriot in an era when his nation desperately needed one. You cannot look at DeGaulle from just a War Two lens any more than you can look at Eisenhower with one. Their public life lasted twenty years after the War with each serving as head of state. If it is alright to castigate Petain for Vichy France, then it is just as fair to hold DeGaulle into account for Algeria. Each man was a hero to the nation and each man made monumental errors that cost the country dearly. Whatever else, the case of DeGaulle makes fascinating reading on just just a historical but also a psychological front.

[@hazchemel]

Thank you. A man whose life I should study more, and previously heard only unsatisfactory snippets. Unfortunately, many representations of de Gaulle, in English, offer mainly insinuations and complaints about his "difficult" nature, a kind of petty diary of a rival. What would he make of the situation today, in which the Brussels mega-bureaucracy seeks to absorb France and the sovereign nations of Europe.

[@SilverSF2]

If only he gave the order to get rid of Monnet and all these parasites ! If he came back today, he would furious to see that France consented to adopt a currency based on the Deutschmark, thus giving away a part of its sovereignty.

[@MageWarren]

Ah yes. I was always fond of Tcharles de Gaulz

[@hamid.r.salehi]

Ruhe in Frieden

[@joezephyr]

Phillip Petain. Please do Phillip Petain

[@LCMM2150]

Comment to help the channel.

[@FutureBoyWonder]

Your description of the maginot line is mot right

[@cherbinsfleurisme9653]

So proud of grandpa u a such great hero

[@khuwahid4747]

Oh myra herose.... mein der zu sie sosek ah soot te

[@antanasstrakays1117]

Yes

[@jerrybrenton6140]

Why wouldn’t he swoop in after America, the English and ussr did the heavy lifting . Knowing the French people would want a French hero. It’s brilliant.

[@jme104]

The Nazis kept the brits prisoners in their island and the US wanted to crush their opponents ,keep imperialism for their own benefit and get costumers for their goods, that's the reason why they "liberated" Europe.Five years of Nazi occupation was followed by 50 years (and more) of US occupation . When France started to be liberated , young frenchmen enlisted en masse to fight the nazis.

[@StephenLuke]

RIP Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)

[@tizfrreecharm]

Very fine video, but I was surprised that there was no mention about France and VietNam; did DeGaulle have no opinion about that disaster?; just thought I'd ask

[@michellesheppard9253]

@The People Profiles would you consider making a documentary on Josep Broz Tito?

[@PeopleProfiles]

Definitely yes, the list is long and growing though lol.

[@aleksandarteodorovic5349]

@@PeopleProfiles Just don't paint him with the bright brush because he didn't deserve it.

[@michellesheppard9253]

@@aleksandarteodorovic5349 love him or hate him, he was a very interesting character.

[@Techgnome21]

He reminds me a bit of a modern Napoleon

[@shilu1298]

Great man of the great nation

[@rawdrywall8212]

Can't wait to see the "but Algeria" comments lmao

[@feargodkojo6121]

He served the interest of France but he's guilty of crimes against man as well as war crimes here in Africa

[@dipankargupta9359]

I am interested to know owner of voice behind this post. He is having great similarity with Dr Shashi Tharoor in India

[@gustavogomez8909]

What about the blockade of monico

[@bodyloverz30]

FYI, at the end, DeGaulle is a Frenchman, NOT a "French Person!"

[@ahronthegreat]

So de Gaulle had the opposite problem of Napoleon on the height front I love de Gaulle ❤ the greatest Frenchman of all time

[@martinskaaland269]

I Hope to here you inn a wh40k video noe day :)

[@johnkeller6063]

He was a true patriot and leader.

[@jacobzehner2004]

Merci Charles de Gaulle for creating the French resistance,free French forces and the free French government. ✊🇫🇷

[@joacimnieminen]

A truly great patriot, humanitarian and hero of the French Nation. Vive de Gaulle!

[@destroyerarmor2846]

Pirate of Africa

[@jme104]

@@destroyerarmor2846 Ignorant simpleton, that's what you are .

[@vavq4471]

Sound like Shashi Taroor

[@scotsexile1]

What do you mean "English reinforcements"? Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Canadians, Australians, South Africans, Indians and soldiers from many other lands came to the rescue.

[@thevillaaston7811]

Lohdochart And none of the "reinforcements" were English?..

[@Geojr815]

Didn’t the other leaders of the Allies try to exclude this guy as much as they could?

[@hoong18]

De Gaulle was a great leader of the modern world.

[@theoparaschiv1836]

8:24

[@laurenceskinnerton73]

An interesting man.

[@ricardocalderon1721]

Charkes was a great french man. Thank you for him.

[@laszlonemet4425]

Charles - - Marie

[@jme104]

That's a french name , nothing female in there, magyar .

[@laszlonemet4425]

@@jme104 Marie Baptiste Cul

[@jme104]

@@laszlonemet4425 Lasso is a fine name LOL . Stay in the middle of nowhere, Puszta ?

[@laszlonemet4425]

@@jme104 Marie jen

[@SammyNeedsAnAlibi]

He's just being French. I'm married to a French woman... that's how they roll. Very arrogant, very passionate, and sometimes spoiled brats, but ya love 'em anyway!

[@RegentOfGreece]

De Gaulle was a true Hero of France, even surpassing Napoleon himself. He was a great friend of the Allies, and the Liberator of Democracy and Republicanism

[@cherbinsfleurisme9653]

Im short 😂 too bad

[@AlCarou]

On 28th minute you are proclaiming Germany as a neutral country toward France!? Have you ever heard of "Versailles dictate"? Rhineland remilitarization by Hitler in 1936 was the first obvious step against French power!

[@jme104]

Versaille treaty dictate was well deserved after all what the Germans did in Belgium and France .

[@pjmuscat401]

Say what you all want. To me i will always remember de gualle for the Quebec incident in the 1960's. French need to learn to say out of there nations business

[@jordanjames5479]

Can you do a franco one too, this channel is amazing.

[@PeopleProfiles]

Franco is in the pipeline.

[@vavq4471]

@@PeopleProfiles Salazar too

[@alexkubeck8587]

Does anyone know of an important battle that he won? Or was he just our "front man" for French liberation?

[@alexkubeck8587]

@@aaropajari7058 The United States armed forces liberated France. The French had a token force...Interestingly, in the 50s, the French wanted US help to transport their troops to Vietnam to maintain their colony* However, later in the 60s, De Gaul withdrew France from NATO. What was that about? *Pentagon Papers

[@alexkubeck8587]

@@rambolo682 What was his issue with NATO? That was not the response of an ally

[@blowbert9126]

@@alexkubeck8587 he left NATO simply because it was under direct US control. Besides De Gaulle told the americans that despite leaving NATO france would come to its allies help if the soviets tried anything funny

[@alexkubeck8587]

@@blowbert9126 Wouldn't the U.S. naturally take the lead role similar to the World War II coalition? The U.S. had the greater number of troops, equipment and logistics. Historical Aside: France wanted the U.S. to help move its troops to preserve its colonies in Indochina after World War II (Pentagon Papers). With the exception of Chirac and Sarkozy, French leaders- post World War II- were outwardly antagonistic towards United States foreign policy interests?? Miterrand?

[@blowbert9126]

@@alexkubeck8587 french preferred having command of their armies to themself. And most french leaders didnt want post ww2 america involved in european politics for good reasons