You can joke about the French army being “cheese eating surrender monkeys” but that trope isnt entirely accurate. And let’s not forget that when the Americans faced the axis for the first time, they got run out of the Phillipines. Unfortunately for France, they were too close to Germany and din’t have enough strategic depth to recover and adapt to Germany’s rapid Blitzkrieg.
In any case, it’s not particularly to the present day. French troops are extremely professional and battle hardened from their extensive combat operations in Africa. I wouldn’t want to be a hapless Russian Mobik facing extremely well trained professional French soldiers, or professional soldiers from any NATO country because man for man they are superior to the dross that the Russians send over in meatwave attacks against Ukrainian positions.
The French also helped our forces to win against the British, and also provided cover as much as they could against the Germans during the retreat from Dunkirk. I know the French have been brave warriors in the past. That was then, this is now. Neither France, Great Britain, or this country have the military they had in WWII, and none of those countries would be able to fight a prolonged war against China like we did against the Axis in WWII.
See post 22 for more of what you said.
Battle hardened?
Like us, they've spent much of the past two decades fighting against sandal-wearing goat herders carrying AK-47s.
Like us, it's been a long, long time since they engaged in ground combat against a modern, mechanized army capable of deploying forward artillery and air support.
“...extremely professional and battle hardened from their extensive combat operations in Africa. I wouldn’t want to be a hapless Russian Mobik facing extremely well trained professional French soldiers, or professional soldiers from any NATO country because man for man they are superior to the dross that the Russians send over in meatwave attacks against Ukrainian positions. “
The ultimate NormieCon bravado.
NATO member army prevails over 3rd world rag heads, and FR Goober thinks they are the second coming of the GrossDeutschland.
Every Afghanistan / Iraq veteran who has fought in Ukraine says it is vastly more dangerous and frightening than anything in the MidEast wars.
The BS “superiority” myth of NATO equipment and training collapsed in the minefields South of Orikhiv, during the Counter-Offensive.