What are the Frenchies up to now?

So now we are going to help the Frenchies bomb the hell out of the North Africans!  As if we didn't have our resources overextended all over the world.  But of course we can count on the Chinese to lend us the money.  We are broke, the French are broke, the British are broke.

At one point the Soviets went bankrupt and had to mothball their fleet and get out of the eastern block countries fast. We don't learn. We are next.