“Just as soon as France pays its reparations to this country for the hundreds-of-thousands of American casualties suffered to free France from the Germans...”
Be sure to subtract the thousands of French casualties suffered to free America from the Brits...
Which “thousands of French casualties” ?
(even if were so, paid many times over exponentially)
989 French killed in our revolution is a flea on an elephant's balls compared to our losses in WWII-France...
The Army Extracts section of the SF booklet lists the 989 French soldiers who were reported as dying in U.S. theater of operations during the American Revolution (the 990 circled below is in error). About 25% of these died during in the 1778-79 operations (under D'Estaing) and about 75% died during the 1780-83 operations (under Rochambeau).
IAC, the French were here to get revenge for their prior loss to the English in the Seven Yeats War...