Because they have short memories and are ungrateful.
France is a member of NATO.
1953
Believed expansion would give NATO too much influence. Wanted to include/integrate Soviet states.
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France, being with the UN and NATO, Would give the idea that they are allies.
Albania and Croatia both joined in 2009.
Yogoslavia and France escaped from the bipolar alliance of the cold war by withdrawing from NATO military structures and expelling all of their NATO troops.
NATO as it exists today has over ever been called NATO. However, a precursor to NATO, which did not include the USA, was the Western Union Defence Organisation, a defence council set up by the UK, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
France, a NATO country, had a democratic government. Czechoslovakia, a member of the Warsaw Pact, had a communist government.
The 12 original members were countries of North America and Europe: - The US - Canada - Great Britain - Belgium - The Netherlands - Luxembourg - France - Portugal - Denmark - Norway - Iceland - Italy * France left NATO from 1959 to 2009, although participating in several NATO exercises.
NATO was involved and the allies of France
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