Yeah got our ass kicked several times, but at least it was against proper and strong lads like Germany, Spain, Brits, portuguese, Dutch etc..

by FrenchieB014

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  2. Why are we still listening baby country with no history and no culture?

  4. Us four are truly like the fellowship of the ring, we even have the hobbits (BENELUX)

  5. Honestly, people that do the “french surrender” meme are fucking braindead.

    * France was THE major military power of the middle ages, with the HRE and England to a lesser deegree (history mostly focussing on the latters few victories in the hundred years war)
    * The seven years war was close as fuck and basically just decided by russia switching sides/becoming neutral
    * Napoleon literally steamrolled europe
    * The french track record past 1850 isn’t ***as*** good, but vastly underestimated:
    * Sedan, and hence the french-german war was mostly lost due to a fuckton of bad luck by the french side, and they kept fighting for another year despite literally losing most of their army
    * French forces pretty much held the line for themselves with limited british support against a massive Germany who fucked Russia up the butt without lube pretty early in WW1
    * In WW2, they still get blamed for the “phony war”, where people ignore that Polands defenses were so weak it got steamrolled within like 2 weeks, not even giving France and the UK a chance to properly respond. Even Russia had to hurry to actually participate in this war, despite what some revisionists claim (“only lost due to russias backtab hurr durr”).
    * And lastly, all the wheerabo shit aside, the Ardennes push by generals like Rommel or Guderian was straight up military masterclass combined with a bit of luck. France wasn’t weak, they literally just got outgamed by some arguably great generals that took a risk and won. Which is fucking fair. The only thing you can blame France here for is the slow response, but that also saw a fair bit of bad luck (“panic of bulson”, for example)

    **France was military S tier for most of its history**, with like 2 blunders along the way.

  6. Tbh what else are we supposed to get beside france ? Like the only neighbour that even could fight over the time.

    If we are honest, we spent most of our time killing ourself, bc my stupid rainy village is better then the stupid rainy village 2km away

  7. OP has a disturbing level of respect for other europeans 🤔

  8. The French are many things, most of them despicable.

    Cowards? Never have been.

  9. >proper strong lads

    Did I just time travel to the 1800s?

    Edit: sorry, the 1700s for Spain, Portugal and Netherlands

  10. Trafalgar was against you *and* Pedro thank you very much

  11. Barry’s greatest military feats are conquering tribes a fraction of their size have some respect.

  12. The Americans have it easy, bordering nations that can’t do shit.

    Try living next to murderous maniacs, like every country in Europe does.

  13. Mean-while USA can’t win against North Vietnam, Afghanistan, North Korea, …

    USA can’t even colonize a continent; They instead just call their own country the same thing as the whole continent and considers it done.

  14. Holy fuck, am I witnessing a *checks note* PRAISE POST about Britain from Pierre!?

    Lord, we’re living in a simulation.

    Also, good game at Agincourt. Can’t argue with that result.

  15. Isn’t half the western world’s history just england and france fighting each other?

  16. France was destroyed so many times they gave up, learnt their lesson and now surrenders instead.

  17. I agree, but 1940 was an absolutely massive fuckup – there’s just no denying that.

    Although cowardice had nothing do with it – only incompetence and political division.

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