The PCF are not really considered a serious Communist party by most radicals and communists in France imo. There are several other communist groups which are basically Trotskyist in orientation. The PCF are recognized universally on the left reformist sic dems and their have long held a variety of very reactionary positions. They are a shadow of their former selves.
It’s doubly annoying because in Paris they still have a dope ass modernist building as their headquarters which literally looks like some Soviet shit. They really don’t deserve it.
I'm interested as to what extent the influence of Neoconservatism on the Republican Party, as they've all been pretty unambiguously absolute in their support for Israel. Frankly they've been even more publically frothing at the mouth in bloodlust.
Who knows, maybe a second Trump presidency will be more eager to launch another crusade in the Middle East than Biden.