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Feb 27 10 tweets 4 min read
Dear president @ZelenskyyUa I would like to assemble here for you the elements of an argument which IMHO ought to carry much historical & geopolitical weight with coincidentally all now francophone senior European leaders for convincing them to make you part of Europe ASAP…
Apologies @ZelenskyyUa , I got “a bit distracted” by those nukes #VladimirPutin is brandishing about recklessly … Luckily, even these do not scare you it seems!! So let me start spinning my tale again from where I left off. But, because I am sure you have zero time to waste….
I will give you the punchline or “take-home message” first. The keys IMHO is whispering into their ears & subliminally reminding their minds of just these few words: “L’Europe de l’Atlantique à l’Oural”. Should you not have heard these magic words before, here’s their history:
If you’re in rush you really only need to listen (with a translator should your French be as minimal as my Ukrainian…!) to the first 3 min of this podcast which defines "L'Europe de l'Atlantique à l'Oural" sur franceinter.fr/emissions/la-m…
Important points of start of podcast:
-Gen Charles de Gaulle coined this term (and that other one we discussed a night or two ago “l’intérêt supérieur de état”)
-he used it repeatedly as France President in the post war era but never actually defined it precisely geographically
He used it especially at a crucial point: his trip to the USSR in 1966, a pendant to Kroutchev’s trip to France earlier that decade. As an aside my newly wed father & mother were both party to this trip, he as @Newsweek’s Paris bureau chief & she as part of 🇫🇷 foreign ministry…
He was an American Ashkenazy jew. She was French-born and very useful to the high ranking “Quai d’Orsay” = 🇫🇷Ministry of Foreign Affairs staff as a translator because she had just learnt fluent Russian (and English) and earned a Masters’ degree in “Soviet Affairs” from @Harvard.
Anyway, I digress. My main point of is that this trip was the result of de Gaulle’s difficulties with the establishment of @NATO. These difficulties were the result of the occupation of France by the Nazis under the Vichy regime.
To be continued.
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