Yeah I was reading about it and its shocking, France is still an Empire, it controls more sea than entire EU.

France controls its former colonies in West Africa through their currency. I don’t always see central banks as the bad guys but in this case it’s truly evil.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2017/07/12/the-cfa-franc-french-monetary-imperialism-in-africa/
Yeah I was reading about it and its shocking, France is still an Empire, it controls more sea than entire EU.

But, but we are the "good guys", we Europeans (this is irony)