so France is pissed because it got treated like the second-rank power it is and is having trouble coming to terms with that? nytimes.com/2021/09/22/opi…
it's not fun to be pushed around, but my advice to France is to embrace it. being a great power is stupid and horrible! you end up pissing money away on the military and routinely get bogged down in unwinnable wars
one reason the Nordics are great imo is they're just small countries who can't afford to go on madcap imperialist crusades, so they mainly focus on tending their own little garden
Norway likes to get involved internationally but they do it by eg helping negotiate an end to intractable violent conflict. much more worthy (and reliable) way of burnishing one's international reputation regjeringen.no/en/topics/fore…
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