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"France should not have to rely on any foreign country for its survival (thus the creation of the French nuclear deterrent)"
"the policies of grandeur — that is, the insistence that France is a major power in the world scene and the establishment of military and economic forces to back this claim."
Those are two principals of Gaullist foreign policy. They encourage nuclear detente, and intend to foster a sort of insoluble frisson between great powers of the world. I don't have anything against France... I couldn't even write a criticism of them without using borrowed-French in my critique.
Regardless, I can't see how it is not rational to hate a country's foreign policy, when the country's foreign policy is explicitly designed to sew dissention and create strife, for that country's sole benefit.
Don't try and retort with "oh yeah, so does the US! hurhurhur!", because I hate that aspect of US foreign policy too. I think that in the age of nuclear arms, any foreign policy that is intentionally divisive is retarded.
So don't patronize me. Do not claim that there is no rational reason to hate France and the things they do. Because the Gaullist system of international balkanization is deranged.