France
Russia, France, and global disorder
Europe in an era of disruption: Where does the Russia-Ukraine crisis go from here?
[The intelligence community recommended against offering a membership path to Ukraine and Georgia, because much of NATO opposed it, but it was overridden by Mr. Bush. The compromise was brokered by the British... but] it was the worst of all possible outcomes. [Mr. Putin] has been trying to shut that door ever since.
Is the NATO-EU divide an obstacle to a European foreign policy?
Do trans-Atlantic relations need a reset?
The vice president is basically a part of this charm operation that the United States implemented towards France in the past month and a half [...] The vice president's visit is sort of the last straw of this procession of high-level American officials who who are coming, passing by Paris or meeting with the French in order to remind everybody that they value the French-American relationship, that they value the bilateral relationship in the context of Europe.