I will point out the contrast between the wink wink nudge nudge relationship between Three Letter Agencies in the US and industry vs France
The difference is that the French have never been champions of free trade. They’ve always been very coherent with their policy of national economic champions and grandeur, pretty much at any time since the late XVIII century / early XIX…
Whereas US economic policy is built on a hypocritical cathedral of Free Trade orthodoxy, that is constantly propagandised around the world as The One True Way, while at the same time other countries get screwed sideways.
