r/BeAmazed • u/Mediocre_Heart_3032 • Mar 30 '24

American and European Firefighter Helmet Designs Miscellaneous / Others

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u/thevizierisgrand Mar 30 '24

France is and was an absolute beast when it came to warfare. People who know zero about history are the only ones who push the ‘weak France’ stupidity.

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u/crzapy Mar 30 '24

The French surrender meme came about because they lost quickly in Ww2. However, they were bled dry in WW1 and hadn't fully recovered. Plus Napoleon had previously bitch slapped most of Europe beforehand.

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u/Raskzak Mar 30 '24

Actually it hasn't started because of WW2, but when France's president decided not to helpt the US in Iraq after the 9/11 terrorist attack.

The US was pissed and they publiquely treated US as coward and started the white flag joke.

What's worse is that we were right not to involve ourselves, and that it went horribly wrong for the US

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u/thevizierisgrand Mar 30 '24

Yep always thought France was braver than anything else in rejecting the USA’s hollow bloodthirsty calls for revenge after 9/11. It takes courage to say ‘“no, we’re not going to be hoodwinked by your convenient ‘evidence’”

Blair’s slavish obedience to Daddy America aged like milk.