Three Seas snippet...of Doubt

Well here's a bit for all you waiting with baited breath for Battle of the Three Seas. We used to think this was fine. Now we're not so sure. We think we might be over-thinking and we're sure we're over-editing.

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Aboard Foch, Admiral Gaspar Despres looked back toward Toulon. Silently he cursed Mitterrand, He could at least let me command this expedition in peace. But he won’t. He shall whisper in my ear the entire time. he thought. Have I not already done well for France and the Marine Nationale?

Over the course of Operation Mare Nostrum Foch’s battlegroup sunk two Soviet subs the in the central Mediterranean, flown in support of Italian forces in Yugoslavia and conducted deterrence patrols against Libya. Nobody could predict exactly what that nation’s lunatic dictator would do, or not do. Early in the war Foch’s battlegroup entered the Gulf of Sidra and on several occasions her F-8s came to within twelve miles of the Libyan, provoking no response from Libya.

Now the French Mediterranean Squadron was taking to sea as part of Mitterrand’s vanity project to remove the shame of the surrender of 1940 and Churchill’s betrayal at Oran. With the great victory at Krakow, followed by a great victory at sea, Mitterrand would be a hero to the French people for all time.

But the public didn’t know about Mitterrand’s grand plans, yet. Officially, the task force was relieving beleaguered British and American navies in the Norwegian Sea. The French public would love that. Mitterrand liked the idea himself and regretted it wasn’t so. This was a feint. Instead of sailing for Gibraltar, the task force sailed east to rendezvous with the Marina Militarie...