Nineteen sixty-six seems a very long time ago, but it was on March 11 that year that French President Charles de Gaulle stunned the western world by sending an aide-mémoire to France's 14 partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), in which he announced that all French forces would be withdrawn from the Alliance integrated command. De Gaulle also stated that all French NATO bases and HQ's would be closed within a year. General de Gaulle was a gentleman, and he kept his word.
At the diplomatic level, the reason appeared to be that Charles de Gaulle could not and would not trust America to 'protect' France if Russia attacked Europe, but the real reasons behind his decision were infinitely more profound. You see, President de Gaulle knew all there was to know about Zionist plans for a 'One World Government', and he also knew that France would be crushed into economic submission as an integral part of those Zionist plans.
Less than one year later the French Force de Frappe (Strike Force) was in operation, equipped with sixty-two formidable Mach 2 Mirage IV-P low-level bombers, each capable of delivering a home-made [French] sixty-kiloton nuclear bomb with stunning accuracy. And while the New York media tried to laugh the whole matter off as a bit of a gallic joke, Charles de Gaulle made it painfully clear that he was deadly serious:
"It is obvious that the megatonnes which we could employ do not match the numbers which America and Russia could unleash", de Gaulle said, "But once a certain nuclear capacity is reached and in regard to our direct defense, the size of the respective arsenals does not have an absolute value.
He continued, "For since a man and a country can only die once, deterrence exists once one has the means to inflict mortal damage on a possible aggressor, the determination to use them and the confidence in one’s ultimate decision."
The amazing Mirage-IVP carried much of France's nuclear role in the air for 32 years with the AN-52 nuclear bomb and ASMP missile. In July 1996 the Mirage was [officially] retired from this role, but 5 have been kept for strategic reconaissance missions. They are operated by the 1/91 Gascogne squadron at Mont-de-Marsan, while the rest of the Mirage-IVPs are kept in fully air-conditioned hangars discreetly dotted across France, lest they should suddenly be needed again at short notice.
While Germany continued to bow the knee to its American occupation troops, and allow them free access to frequently unwilling German women, and sometimes children, France was having none of it. In a very real sense, France forced the pace in forming the fledgling European Union, because men like Charles de Gaulle knew that European unity and massive trade were the only tools capable of defeating the New York moneylenders.
Somehow, Europe as a whole had to find a way of freeing itself from the stranglehold of worthless US Federal Reserve notes, which would had to be replaced with revenue derived from the sale of tangible [real] products, such as cars, aircraft, farm products and so on. This was finally achieved in January 2005, when Germany alone (just one of 25 EU member states), published its export/import figures for the financial year 2004.
During 2004, Germany exported products worth US$ 950 billion, while importing products valued at only US$ 748 billion, meaning that Germany made a gross profit for the year of US$ 222,000,000,000. During the same time frame, America's total exports were two hundred billion less than Germany, with American imports completely off the clock. If anyone out there ever wanted hard proof that America is now totally bankrupt, Germany just provided that proof in the form of properly audited balance sheets.