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.
And let us not forget that if it wasn't for France during the American Revolution, we would still be a British Colony.
Well, let's hope they never have to go to war against each other.
Regarding WWI, my great-uncle served with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, and was killed in France two months before the Armistice. He's buried in France in a British Military Cemetery.
The French did a great job in Vietnam didn't they, just as good a job as the British did in India with their colonization.
Russia is so vast that no country will ever be able to conquer it all. Hitler found that out when he went there to take control of Russia's oil fields, and his stupidity ended with making Germany dependent on Russian energy for decades, and they still haven't completely cut the cord.