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The French television show, A French Village, dramatizes the events from 1940 to 1945. Of course it's only entertainment, but it gave a pretty good idea of the choices and lack of choices that the French faced back then. Not to excuse Petain, but those who stepped up to deal with the chaos of 1940 could easily find themselves becoming collaborators with the occupier, and it was not always easy to get out of that situation.

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Macron has recently been saying that Europe needs to protect itself from Russia China and the USA. and develop their own army.

I’m not sure anymore as to whether it would be a bad thing for the Europeans to develop their own national defense.

In any case—toward that end

That’s why Macron went to Petan’s grave.

A European defense force would be primarily French and German.