French involvement in the Europe after 2001.

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Where exactly is France going to be getting it's oil, gas, coal and other energy resources from anyway? What reserves exist within it's borders and what can it rely on to be delivered each and every time it's needed?
It's all well and good to say oil is coming from the middle east, but how exactly is it being transported. There's no way it'd be by pipeline up through Turkey and it's a fair bet the Suez has been nuked so you won't catch anyone wanting to sail through there even if it is still open.
Coming over land through Palestine or Israel is not likely to happen either so we're left with the posibility of a long voyage down around the bottom of Africa with all the attendant piratical risks.

That of course is just oil, what about coal, iron and other ores, and all the other things needed to support a modern society? Traditional trading partners such as the UK and the USA are history, as is just about everyone in Europe, the middle east and as can be seen in another thread in a post about Libya, northern Africa.

To me France might have avoided the general war, but they're by no means unscathed. France simply has more of it's infrastructure and military in working order, but it's still got all the problems everyone else does regarding feeding, clothing and keeping the populace warm.