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I write #PerspectiveandContext on @SubstackInc and @Medium and will try and give both on the #AUKUS security announcement and the spillover negative effect of 🇦🇺reneging on its giant submarine contract with 🇫🇷.
For personal context: I was born in FR&now a dual FR CA citizen.
For personal context: I was born in FR&now a dual FR CA citizen.
Background: 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷 cooperated closely during WW2 in New Caledonia and Noumea became the main rear naval base after Pearl Harbor. 182ndinfantry.org/defending-new-…
#NouvelleCaledonie #Noumea
#NouvelleCaledonie #Noumea
My take: 🇺🇸 doesn’t respect 🇫🇷’s strategic role in the Pacific region b/c it analyzes, perhaps rightly, that France doesn’t belong there fully and its presence is residual, at best, and post-colonial. I don't agree.
A La Réunion, direction la Mairie de Saint Pierre pour la #manif31juillet
