tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post7883307697099566910..comments2023-11-05T22:35:31.766+00:00Comments on Neil Clark: A Black Day for FranceNeil Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10479041156190090119noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-407243231744097232008-06-18T18:55:00.000+01:002008-06-18T18:55:00.000+01:00Proper Gaullists must allow themselves nothing les...Proper Gaullists must allow themselves nothing less than a proper Presidential candidate next time.<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, over here, up got the Eurofanatical Henry Jackson Society stalwart Denis MacShane, to crow about the French re-accession to NATO, thereby giving Brown an opportunity to "deny" that there was any "plan" to merge the Royal and French Navies.<BR/><BR/>Well, there probably isn't. There is now so little to the Royal Navy that a merger could not happen. Rather, there would be a simple takeover, as part of a French-dominated single EU "capability" under overall American command, much as the US has wanted ever since the Forties.<BR/><BR/>In the pre-Sarkozy days when the Henry Jackson Society's Statement of Principles was being drafted, it was assumed that America's regent in Europe would be Atlanticist, if moderately armed and non-nuclear, Germany. But in the new Sarkozy Age, that distinction now goes to heavily armed and very definitely nuclear France instead.<BR/><BR/>Also part of this grand scheme, by the way, is the abolition of the Royal Air Force: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=1&subID=482.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.com