France’s rising influence could be to America’s benefit: Tom Campbell

At the beginning of the 20th century, France ruled Indochina, half of Africa and territories in the Americas.  At the beginning of the 19th century, France ruled most of Western Europe, however briefly, under Napoleon.  After World War II, France emerged as a leader of the effort to integrate Europe into what would become today’s European Union. Germany’s economy had been shattered; the UK had suffered extensive war damage; France, due to its early capitulation to Germany i