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5 days ago, 110 comments

This is popping up from the Second Chance Pool, but it was submitted again in between, and hit the front page that time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922420 (186 points 116 comments)

(To see the timeline - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=theparisreview.org )

On one hand, maybe the Second Chance Pool shouldn't do that.

On the other hand, 64 points would seem to say that nothing's wrong.

Worth pointing out that next to the US, France is another empire with economically tied former colonies throughout Africa, Asia, and South America. They have a large installed base of nuclear power, nuclear ships, and nuclear weapons fed from uranium mines in those former colonies. And operate an aircraft carrier to project power internationally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_aircraft_carrier_Charle...

Despite the ways France tends to be portrayed in the US media, it plays an outsized role in European and international politics as a result. Makes sense the CIA would want to be involved.

The Paris Review hasn’t been in Paris since 1973. And it’s in English, not French, so I doubt that there is much connection to France itself anymore via the magazine.

Ah, my mistake. Shows how uncultured I am! lol. Thanks for the correction.

I still enjoyed reading your facts on the French empire

No worries, I read the magazine for years before realizing it had no contemporary connection to Paris :)

I brought up the aircraft carrier in a conversation with a Frenchman while our daughters played in his apartment off the Champs-Élysées some months ago. He said: "Yes, it was very expensive and we don't take it anywhere." ; )

IIRC the operational plan involved having two of those as projection is much more limited (and notably cannot be continuous due to docked maintenance periods) with only one.

What unusually crafted prose for Hackernews.

I thought the same thing, still made me click aha!