26. Russian Advances
Battleground
00:00
Is France a Vassal?
Sore: de Gaulle's grandson has recently come out with what I consider to be an outrageous statement. He said that the US was responsible for the Ukraine war and that Russia was a victim. This isn't really an uncommon view in France, Sore says. There seems to be a school of thought that says we really did bring this on by NATO expansion, et cetera. But again, it's part of this historical sense that France is separate. And so it's always got to be seen to have its own independent policy. The Franco-German partnership is meant to drive all aspects of European foreign policy but they've been faced with two big crises in recent times. They
Transcript
Play full episode
