French involvement in the Europe after 2001.

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Originally Posted by John Farson

So with all these issues, I'd say France has its work cut out just trying to keep things together, never mind going off on foreign adventures except for the aforementioned small teams and individual agents. I can see the French in the Middle-East because of the oil, but I don't see them doing much in Africa. The only thing I could come up with is setting up transportation nodes in the African coast, to safeguard the Middle-East oil shipments from pirates and the like. But stuff like interfering in Canada, or South America, or Asia... I dunno. I just don't think they have the resources for that.

There's a lot of oil in Algeria, which is just a short hop across the Med from Marseille, but there's also a lot of history between France and Algeria, so I have no clue how that might play out?

Would the French be in a position to try and reconquer Algeria to take control of the oil fields by force? Mo mentioned the possibility of French troops being in Tunisia - might the French and the Tunisians make a joint move against the Algerians? Perhaps Morocco might also be involved on the French side?

That said would they really want to invade Algeria? I think there are a lot of French citizens of Algerian descent living in France, and making military moves against the mother country might spark off a whole wave of internal disorder. Also, are they already getting enough oil and gas from their partners in the Middle East?

But wouldn't it be better to be in control of your own supplies rather than rely on others?

Or perhaps some sort of negotiated agreement be possible?

(Of course, there's every possibility that the Algerian refineries might have been nuked, in which case it may be a moot point.)