[Right_Wing_Madman]

Just like the France in June 1940? How'd that work out?

The French made the correct decision declaring Paris an open city in 1940. France survived as a state and escaped WW2 mostly unscathed, unlike large portions of central and eastern Europe.

[dfwgator]

The one good thing about France falling, is that it saved Europe from a complete Bolshevik takeover, because had the British, French and German armies had all been bled dry by another WWI war of attrition, it would have been easy pickings for the Red Army.

[Timber Rattler]

The French made the correct decision declaring Paris an open city in 1940.

Really?

France survived as a state and escaped WW2 mostly unscathed, unlike large portions of central and eastern Europe.

Really?

Just wow. So that's how you justify surrender? Better red than dead?

[tlozo]

France survived as a state and escaped WW2 mostly unscathed, unlike large portions of central and eastern Europe.

Because others, US, Brits, Russians, etc continued to fight.

[dfwgator]

Well if you call having traitors like Pierre Laval “surviving”.