The Cromwellian Protectorate - I Don't Think Anything Is Inevitable

I don't think anything is inevitable. I mean, the close diplomatic alliance that cromwell forms with mazarin louis the fourteenth francesi kind of remarkable. So i don' t think foreign powers at the time looked at this and thought, al this, this isn't going to last. And you're one of charles the second's disappointments,. d the court in exile's disappointment. Was this a reaction to the joyless years spent under cromwell? Or was it normal to expect these influences coming from the aat this time?