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Gilles Condé's avatar

This piece in Le Grand Continent might be of interest to you. Your description, in your YouTube video, of the fate of Greenland in 1941 helps my understanding of the backdrop of this masterstroke by de Gaulle setting the future position of France within NATO.

https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/01/10/de-gaulle-muselier-resister-a-trump-au-groenland/

Michael Shurkin's avatar

Thanks. I’ll read this.

Gilles Condé's avatar

BTW The author who was born there. I personally was aware of Admiral Robert mainly as Vichy governor of Martinique with the US eyeing the gold of Banque de France safeguarded there.