Friend of my Enemy is a Foe

Will France Deliver to Russia?

As a member of NATO, France appears to be playing a duplicitous game by undermining NATO’s strategic interests through arming its primary adversary, Russia, with advanced technology in addition to the sale of Mistral class amphibious assault warships. This presents an enormous problem for Poland, whose geography puts it on NATO’s critical eastern line of defense. An aggressive and modernized Russian military, coupled with a wobbly American president, has sent Poland on a quest to rapidly acquire an adequate missile defense system that can meet today’s threats.

Curiously, one of the two finalists to produce a key component of the Polish missile defense shield is France’s Eurosam.

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