Bainville was attempting to argue for the French Government to reach out to Konrad Adenauer for an independent and right-Catholic Rhineland Republic to create a buffer for France. 
Bainville at the 30’s:
Left and Right do not mean anything anymore, the Idealism of statecraft was towards revision.
“Terrible agony” and “the end of the European World” would surly be the result of the new upheaval, brought on by the interwar lethargy.
Left and Right do not mean anything anymore, the Idealism of statecraft was towards revision.
“Terrible agony” and “the end of the European World” would surly be the result of the new upheaval, brought on by the interwar lethargy.
After the assassination of Engelbrecht Dollfuss, Mussolini deployed troops to the Austrian border and attempted forming both a pact that included and excluded Germany in order to prevent further German expansion after the assassination.
Bainville perceives that the English betrayed France and Italy for selfish reasons, it’s condemnation and sanctions over the Abyssinian War he saw as the peak of British hubris on abandoning Continental realpolitik.
This is a fascinating perspective.
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This is a fascinating perspective.
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@ByFisted Yes, this was his only break from national realism. Bainville saw the ideological threat of the Soviet State transcend the boundaries of realpolitik. He was looking at the internal threat in France and the Civil War in Spain in his final months.
@ByFisted The funeral processions of Bainville famously runs into Léon Bloom on his way to an event who drives his car up to the procession. The Young AF members pull Bloom from his car and beat the shit out of him for his disrespect.
@ByFisted Bainville’s prophecies on the European disaster had proven true, but his ideas lived on in the heart of De Gaullism and the French Right. And live on in particular in the European project as it was envisioned independent of America and the Soviet Union.
