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Still trying to figure out how France aided the US during the 1812 fracas. Each at differing times 1806/1807 set up trade embargoes on US goods. Of course, at that point, England and France had been fighting for decades.
The great aid they provided in the waters off Yorktown during the Revolutionary War, and furnishing troops for the siege, were of course to aid French interests.
Could the Louisiana purchase (1803) be considered a benefit to the US, so far as the war is concerned?
It looks more like Napoleon was running out of fund to prosecute his war against the British.
Meanwhile, no surprise Putin would like anything Macron would offer...he will gladly accept any form of surrender he can get.
Of course, Putin would greatly enjoy curtailing NATO, while he revitalizes the old USSR....it seems like we spent about 50 years of cold war...just trying to contain such expansionist efforts.