To add to your comment, in the past, there has been US bases in France. The US troops were evicted by De Gaulle when he exited France from NATO’s Military Command Structure. Some of these old US bases are now used by the french military.
You are absolutely right, De Gaulle made sure of that.
Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty states that an armed attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against all members, and triggers an obligation for each member to come to its assistance.
From the nato.int website. It reads to me that if a country refuses to come to the assistance of a country legitimately invoking the article, the country is breaching the treaty.
The geopolitics level of the average american
Is he? I mean, his main occupation in all the fictional depictions I’ve read and seen is to be a Musketeer… The full name of the company literally being “Musketeers of the King”. Doesn’t seem to be against the elite to me!