[Governor Dinwiddie]

The Frog's tweet suggested that America was remiss in not helping France in the 1930s. His total ignorance of history is shocking.

In the 1930s America was not a superpower. America was still in the depths of terrible economic depression. America's arsenel was woefully out of date, closer to tools of the First World War, then the Second.

After Pearl Harbor, it took all we could muster to save ourselves, let alone the rest of the world. The Frog doesn't have a clue.
 

[hinckley buzzard]

IN 1936 Germany marched a ragtag semblance of an army into the Rhineland, in violation of the Versailles Treaty. France, which had the largest standing army in Europe, could have swatted them away like a fly. They did nothing. There rest is history.

[JewishRighter]

Very good points. Let me add that France actually had a massive standing army at the time that dwarfed the United States, British and German forces at the time. The failure was the French chickened out of using their superior military while they still had the upper hand. They dawdled and appeased their way through the 1930’s (along with the Brits) until Hitler was too strong to stop. Of course, you could argue even then, they could have beaten him if they took the initiative when he invaded Poland because he had left a relatively small force on the French border.