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View submission: De Gaulle watching the current situation
That's the point, he was already right 80 years ago and still is today
Comment by Chimpville at 10/03/2025 at 15:30 UTC
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He wasn't right 80 years ago, we've enjoyred 80 years of relative peace and US-led Western supremacy since then, and more importantly we've had extremely successful counter-proliferation of nuclear weapons thanks to it.
Had we all taken De Gaulle's approach, we'd be looking at a world full of nuclear capable states and all the flashpoint potential that comes with it.
As a race we've only aquired the potential to make ourselves extinct since WW2 and that hasn't happened largely because of a US-led, unipolar existance.
We can be as full of ourselves as a continent as much as we like and as critical of the current US administration as we like, but De Gaulle was wrong and merely extending the timeline for his prediction doesn't change anything.