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Once Upon A Time In France: Foreign Follies, Drug Dens, And Church Crimes
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Once Upon A Time In France: Foreign Follies, Drug Dens, And Church Crimes

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Chris O'Brien
Oct 08, 2021
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France’s foreign policy has been doing its best to prove the old adage that bad news comes in threes. The submarine brouhaha with Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. continues to rattle nerves revealing France as a nation whose pride has been deeply wounded.

This week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken came to Paris with his hat in hand to try to make…

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