Wallerstein on France and the US War

Wallerstein, "France is the Key"

http://fbc.binghamton.edu/106en.htm

[Short snipet]  The fact is that, as a result of its
Gaullism, France is the only country in the world
today that can have any significant impact on the U.S.
geopolitical position - not Great Britain, not Russia,
not even China. This is not because France is so
strong, but because she pushes consistently for a
multipolar world and thereby incarnates a strong world
force. That France would herself be a direct
beneficiary of such a geopolitical transformation is
far less important to most people in most countries
than the fact that France might succeed to some degree
to create something they all want. We shall soon know
how France plays its cards. And the whole world will
feel the difference.



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