De Gaulle Rises as France Sours on Trump’s America

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Charles de Gaulle’s insistence on French power and autonomy is being cited widely in France; one politician demanded that an America on “the side of the tyrants” return the Statue of Liberty.

There is romance to the relationship between France and the United States, the mutual fascination of two republics born of revolutions, and as in all affairs of the heart there are flare-ups. This is one such moment for the oldest American alliance.

France is bristling, provoked by President Trump’s tilt toward an autocratic Russia under President Vladimir V. Putin, his apparent contempt for European allies and his social media threat to impose 200 percent tariffs on “all WINES, CHAMPAGNES AND ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS COMING OUT OF FRANCE.”

Mr. Trump has made Gaullism more fashionable than at any time since Gen. Charles de Gaulle, who as president regularly bridled at American dominance, died 55 years ago.

The current consensus in France is that de Gaulle was right to develop France’s own nuclear deterrent, right to take France out of NATO’s military command structure in 1966, right to insist that France remain an independent power and right to warn that the United States and the Soviet Union, both nuclear-armed, might “one day come to an agreement to divide up the world.” » | Roger Cohen | Reporting from Paris | Tuesday, March 18, 2025

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