CHRONIC. France has nothing more to gain in Mali, where a hostile junta now prevails. The departure is inevitable, it will not be easy.
Through Gerard Araud
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LReaders of this column may remember that, a few months ago, I drew their attention to the impasse in which French policy in the Sahel found itself. I may have surprised them. We were mired in an endless struggle against ever-changing terrorist groups within a population that increasingly saw us as an occupying force. I concluded that the only solution was an orderly withdrawal of our troops from this trap to avoid an African repetition of the American debacle in Kabul.
The President of the Republic has also embarked on this path by announcing the transformation of Operation Barkhane into a lighter counter-terrorism mission. It was indeed a discreet way to start off…
De Gaulle – Think, resist, govern
His name has become synonymous with a free and powerful France. De Gaulle, the man of the appeal of June 18, has established himself in history first as a rebel, a resistance fighter and then as a charismatic political leader, in France and abroad. Adored, hated during his presidency, he became after his death a myth, an ideal politician that on the right and on the left we begin to regret.
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