French block airlift of British troops to Basra

"Robert" a écrit dans le message de
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Interestingly enough the French usually reserve their riots for their
own government and have a pretty good record of making their
government change it's policy this way.

Shades of the revolution and all that.

Peter

Wasn't France (not USSR/Russia) the first nuclear armed country to have a
military coup? Or was the Algerian revolution before they got nukes?

Well, the first French atomic bomb was detonated in Sahara in 1960, two
years after the June1958 coup that failed pretty quickly anyway as De Gaulle
refused to follow the generals who had initiated it and as there was no
support at all from the public in the metropole.


Is that why they get so upset about the US military stay-with-it? Their
army took casualties and had a failed colonial occupation in an Aram
contry
that lead to the army taking over the govt to get out of the colony
business, and the US hasn't?


I honestly don't see many links between the decolonization war in Algeria
and the current US foreign policy. Now if you're talking about mutual
failures... :-)

Regards,
ArVa