France will always support leaders supporting france, and oppose leaders or at least do nothing for leaders opposing france, and the interests we're talking about are entirely related to energy, as I said uranium and oil mostly And of course between two leaders for the same country, france will support the best offer, read, the one willing to sell at the lowest price It's logic, now of course it's hardly compatible with african nationalists, who want to use the energy revenues to dev their own countries, so france more often than not ends up supporting the sellout, and then for decades it's shit internally and you get legions of people who are hostile to france, and then the sellouts don't know what to do with their grumpy and unemployed youth, and it's convenient to let them go to europe, good bye and good luck, worst case scenario he dies best case scenario he sends money home, and france takes them because they have tacit agreements It's disgustingly mediocre, that's what it is