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To: Hoa Hao who wrote (774832)	1/1/2023 11:09:35 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793955

I don’t think there is any chance of hostilities between France and Germany. They’ve done it too many times over the centuries - clearly, there is nothing they can accomplish through fighting. I think you’re right - Medvedev is just pulling their leg. But, at the end of this war there will be some attempts at rebalancing the situation in Europe. They may push for more independence from the US. After all, the idea of the EU was meant in part to counterbalance the US influence. Macron was talking for some years about forming a European army. Maybe that’s the direction they’re going to take.

To: Hoa Hao who wrote (774832)	1/2/2023 9:26:11 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 793955

France and Germany don't want, or need, to fight over the Saarland anymore. Much of the grounds for European pissing matches have gone the way of history as Europe has become post-industrial, post-colonial, and rich and lazy enough to just buy what they want from abroad. Realize that WW1 and WW2 were largely intra-European pissing matches over essentially colonialism within Europe. German and Austro-Hungarian imperialism was aimed at Central and Eastern Europe instead of abroad to Africa, like the Atlantic powers.