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Starhawk said:
As far as China, Russia, France, they all have one thing in common at the moment (well a few) but the biggie is that all three have comunist power hungry leadership Groups that are interested in making the world's Last superpower (AKA US) and anyone who supports it look bad to the 3rd world nations
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I don't know if that was your purpose, but the "France, at the moment, have communist power hungry leadership Groups" made me laugh quite well. I will only address this single point for lack of time: the communist party in France is... how shall we say? virtually dead (it had about 5% of the popular vote in the Last presidential elections, while it had as much as 20% votes in 1981 if memory serves.). The even more to the left, extreme left-wing parties, had a bigger share of the votes, but extreme votes should not be considered as simply being a vote for that party. one of these parties had an untypical candidate, 27-year-old, employed in the postal service, which helped give them their 7 or 8% share of the votes. Does it mean these people converted to the ideals of Trotsky? Not quite.
The closest France came to be under communist control was shortly after WW2, as a plot would have been likely in 1947 or 1949 (it is only one of these two, but I cannot remember the actual one. I will check once I get back from school). But that plot failed, and even if it succeeded, would have had a very tough time keeping power; they had little backing from the army, and the USSR would have had trouble sending help as far as France (there was Western Germany in the way). What you may argue is that marxist ideals are still present in the ways trade unions operate, but above all, in social representations. That would be, however, a different topic, and I should stop digressing.
Lastly, you might wish to know the biggest opponents to the United States (Charles de Gaulle, between 1958 and 1969, did pretty well) were often from the right-wing (as is our current government), and had nothing to do with the communisty party. And I would be very surprised if the words of France had that much impact, especially coming from an ancient colonial power that was reluctant, to say the least, to give up its Empire. I cannot speak of Russia and China, but I would feel the same about their foreign policy; when you are the leading power, it would be very odd if you didn't sprung the biggest amount of criticism from virtually everyone else.
