Joe Biden disappointed us with his duplicity.
It is not the first.
Between the United States and France, a long history of friendship is punctuated by crises.
As early as 1944, de Gaulle knew it: our country could not count on its "liberators".
He should forge his independence.
Or submit.
"A doormat!"
said the General to Alain Peyrefitte.
"France was treated like a doormat!"
Twenty years later, he still felt the bitterness of June 3, 1944 when Winston Churchill had him come urgently from Algiers to London: to inform him in extremis of the outbreak of Operation Overlord decided by the General Staff American.
After treating him with such contempt, the Americans and the British insisted that he call on the French to mobilize.
This forced speech, the leader of Free France was going to deliver on June 6 in the morning on Radio London.
As the immense fleet of allies reached our shores, he hammered "
This is the battle of France, this is the battle.
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