Has France ordered enough white flags yet?
Their new uniform issue lace undies are designed for easy removal and use as either bibs or surrender flags, unbunching not a part of their design.
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.
French soldiers are damned good and always have been. It’s not right to slander them. In WWI they fought to complete destruction. 880k Brits died and we never hear the end of Flanders Fields, and poppy displays etc. Meanwhile France had 1,186,000. Not many white flags at Verdun.
In WWII, in the 6 week battle for France, they had more dead than we did in all of Vietnam...around 70k. They killed 27k Germans and wounded 111k.
The Brits fled the battlefield. The Brits surrendered to a Jap force at Singapore that was a 3rd of their size.
And today, it’s not even close that the French Army is the most powerful in Europe except for Turkey. The Brits pale in comparison, the Germans are a complete joke.
So French soldiers are well equipped and no joke.
That said, it’s a real head shaker that with the history of French soldiers invading Russia, and with their serious problems at home, they want to pick a fight with Russia. Just nuts. France cannot win against Russia without attacking inside Russia, and that would get them hit in France.
It’s even crazier to think of Germans, sending Panzers to Ukraine, and discussing attacking Crimea and the Kerch bridge.
All of Europe, encouraged by Sodom-on-the-Potomac has lost it’s mind.