This is truly a brilliant documentary which I highly recommend for watching. My own personal take is this; France has always been a loyal ally but one with its own vision and respecting its own tradition/value system and history (not a pushover ally that can be dictated to without a challenge). In fact I would say that this is the kind of ally America needed most post WWII and needs particularly in this day-and-age where the world is growing ever more complex and values/rules are being challenged / stretched across the board. France of course has its own idealogical challenges today so it also makes sense for France to seek guidance from its own past in terms of leadership, value system to help it steer through troubled waters ahead so as not to let poor policies/leadership morph its future into something it was not meant to be; there is after all a big difference between a state of evolution and a state of distortion / confusion and I truly believe that France has the capacity/foundation to keep its balance. As for Europe this clip also presents an opportunity to adapt its alliance with the U.S. and even within the EU itself so that alliances follow the Charles De Gaulle model of being more pragmatic/effective rather than weak/superficial. However in order to achieve this objective it must be CAPITALIZED & UNDERLINED that agreeing on a basic set of rules/values and more importantly consistently following them is foundational for any meaningful alliance; NOT at all an optional proposition as seems to the trend. Finally I must also note that a key ingredient for any alliance (which requires a separate post in of itself) is how effective it is in keeping foreign meddling/interference (as soft or as hard as they come) from infecting its political as well its ideological value system - this is the quite visible “blind spot” that politicians continue to ignore yet represents a structural flaw that renders alliances completely ineffective/useless.
Well, that’s one way to look at it.