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The Saar. The Ruhr. A European union of nations (a French led economic and military alliance not delegating power to a, presumably democratic, supranational body) stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals and excluding Britain. A divided Germany, but French (and West German) trade and relations with Communist Eastern Europe (Ostpolitick). Using France's exit from Algeria, recognition of the PRC, and protest of US activity in Indochina to pivot from a colonialist power to a potential great power of interest to the third world, a potential leader of the unaligned nations in the Cold War.

These are things France attempted to get in the post-war era (with varying degrees of success); and specifically are representative of how de Gaulle's vision of France's future is sometimes represented. How much of it can be achieved, and how?

Using the OTL US recognition of the legitimacy of their protectorate of the Saar to annex it could be a start, but could also poison OTL cooperation that existed between France and West Germany. Defeating the formation of the EEC and keeping the European Coal and Steel Commission as a successor to the International Authority of the Ruhr could lead to a alliance of nations between France and The Five (Italy, West Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy) rather than the development of a supranational European Economic Community and then union. Such an alliance could even perhaps seek to develop its own military systems, and manufacture its own equipment, all to NATO standards of course, rather than purchase it from the US as they did OTL at the request of the US to boost the American economy.

Maybe the simplest route would be de Gaulle having more successful negotiations with Stalin, who was supposedly unimpressed by him, or Khrushchev.
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