Why The United States Needs To Put Its Weight Behind France In The Mediterranean; It is a gift from heaven that one of America’s oldest allies, is now volunteering to shoulder additional security burdens.

The Federalist ^ | 08/17/2020 | Sumantra Maitra

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Note: this topic is from 08/17/2020. Thanks SeekAndFind.

First, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo signed a treaty to relocate troops out of Germany to Poland, quietly diminishing Germany's role in Euro-security. Berlin threw a tantrum about French "unilateralism," which could be interpreted as a support for Turkey. This response comes as French naval forces stare down a Turkish flotilla violating Greek maritime sovereignty in order to drill oil. Meanwhile, after re-converting the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan provided a Hamas terrorist political asylum, intervened in Libya and Syria, accused France of neo-colonialism, and called Paris a bully... Both Greece and France are members of the European Union, while Turkey is not... Greece prefers France as a great power ally and hasn't forgotten what Germany did during the debt crisis... With Germany content lecturing everyone on greater EU responsibility through diplomatic means, they are simultaneously sabotaging France's effort to shoulder a greater military burden... Holding American retrenchment hostage is German paranoia about losing European leadership to France. The fact that Germany has a strong Turkish diaspora weighs heavily in the strategic circles of Berlin. In the final analysis, that shouldn't matter to either Britain or the United States -- it's an internal German problem to solve.

[Jim Noble]

What does any of this have to do with the United States?

[Lurker]

Not a damned thing.

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