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I think shooting foreign troops would be seen as an escalation. And I don't think Europe wants to see where that will go.
Invading foreign countries already is an escalation. You cannot the defensive actions against that an "escalation". That's Russian type of logic.
I'd say the US will definitely cease its aggression when the first French nuke hits an aircraft carrier, or similar target. The French do commit to warning shots in their first-strike doctrine.
...unlikely to come to that point, though, Europe can stalemate the US by conventional means with the current arms levels, they'd never get boots on the ground. It's also not like we'd need nukes to sink those carriers. Washington is then welcome to seethe at an ocean's distance.
France nuking American Aircraft Carriers?!?! At that point there wouldn't be any need for "boots on the ground" because France would be nothing but glass and smoking craters.
That scenario is literally the end of the world.
Then don't threaten France, or its vital interests (which definitely include the Netherlands) with invasion. Simple as that. As de Gaulle himself said, you can switch around nationalities yourself:
France won't be glass and craters for the precise reason that the US would be glass and craters if they don't cease their aggression. Ceasing aggression, France will see no need to first strike, crisis averted. Simple as that.
It might come as a surprise for Americans that there's smaller countries that can't be bullied around by military force but trust me the French are dead serious about their nuclear first strike doctrine. Which the US is well-advised to also take seriously so that the French won't need to fire even a warning shot. They'd also prefer not to.
The warning shot, btw, won't come via ICBM so that it's clear that it's not an actual extinction-level attack. The French have cruise missiles specifically for that purpose, until they explode they look like any other cruise missile you'd ~~lob~~throw at a carrier.
Oh we're dumb enough. Trump redrew a hurricane prediction with sharpie on live national television. These are not rational people and that's always been the downfall of MAD as a theory. It requires rational actors.