Posted on 08/31/2021 6:56:16 AM PDT by texas booster
Britain, and thus the US, should have stayed out of WWI and let the Kaiser have France.
WWI was a battle between colonial powers over colonial commerce and power. The US had no interest in that war. The WWI Germans were not the Nazis in any way.
WWII was different, but we should have let them fight WWI to their stalemate.
I don’t think it was a military person
The US entered WWI because of German submarine attacks on American shipping, and especially because of the Zimmermann telegram.
In other words, both the US and Britain entered the war because of German misbehavior, not to save France. Saving France was just an unintended [cough] "benefit".
You want logistical efficiency? Talk to Wal-Mart
Which is why our top Pentagon generals and admirals deserve to be fired.
All that military education and not a single one can stand up and discuss exactly how we are going to extract ourselves safely?
Talk about misbehaving.....the US (having declared neutrality) supplier of arms & munitions to Britain/France (NEUTRALITY "The state of not supporting or helping either side in a conflict, disagreement, etc.; impartiality.). In addition, New York bankers had floated loans to Britain/France that would have been void had Germany won.
Follow the money, Germany had to loose!
De Gaulle was a dictator of France. Only way they got rid of was him to die.
All true, and in complete agreement to Trump’s statement “America First” and about other countries he would expect to likewise support their sovereign interests. All of this put sand in the gears of the one-world globalist/Statists... the international socialists also known as Communists, and the EU loving euro countries. Now with Brexit and “who’s next?” (Hungary? or Italexit?) You’re right-—
Washington was all about not being entangled in foreign issues and bogging down the United States in them-the post US revolution neutrality vs. the French Revolution when those leaders tried to get the US to pay our revolution debt (owed to the King Louis whom they had guillotined) to their “govt.”. Washington said we owed the debt to the King which they killed. And now, the Taliban apparently offered to “allow” to “extend” US stay if the US would unfreeze Afghan govt. accounts— which are NOT the Taliban’s to begin with (if we do, JoeBama is even more of a slimeball as are his obamaumao people running things for the puppeteer muslime).
When Degaulle came into Paris ( bit of showbiz,but there were still snipers, provided by Ike, and if i recall Gen. Leclerc came in first or maybe with DeGaulle) he had to meet up with a photo-op with the Communist leader of the French Resistance in Paris alongside other resistance members who were not commies, and some were Vichy trying to hide.
A political soup, and at that time there was a rival Gen. Giraud vs. DeGaulle. Marshal Petain was sentenced to death for Vichy collaboration, and for the “olde guard” DeGaulle commuted the sentence.
The local population was very friendly and supportive of Americans. They were close to the invasion fighting and liberation there. When traveling farther away from the channel, to Paris, they became typically arrogant french euroweenies.
My dad got shipped out to Rhine-Main in early Jan 1965 then when we joined him a few weeks later we found out we were being shipped again to High Wycombe England by the end of January. Four different high schools, four different countries in three months. Such was the life of a military family.
A favorite story about De Gaulle was in WWII just before the invasion of Normandy. De Gaulle kept pushing for more influence in the invasion, and Churchill was pushing back. De Gaulle finally said to Churchill that the French people considered him a Joan of Arc. Churchill replied, “We burned that one.”
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