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In 1966, after years of friction with the US over whether France should have its own independent nuclear deterrent, the French president, Charles de Gaulle, withdrew his country from Nato's integrated command (not, however, from the alliance itself - a common misconception) and asked all US forces stationed in France to leave. In response, the US secretary of state, Dean Rusk, asked de Gaulle: "Does that include the dead Americans in military cemeteries as well?" In a single weekend, JD Vance's direct attacks on European democracy at the Munich Security Conference and his meeting with far-right, anti-European political forces in…
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