The French weren’t always like that. Charlie Magnet used to kick a@@. So did Jean Lafayette and Charles de Gaulle. Deep down, they are not surrender monkeys. What could bring out that better part of their psyche is a big question. Maybe this is it.
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For the most part the French soldiers fought bravely against the Wehrmacht. The problem was the German Generals were fighting WW2 and the French Generals were fighting WW1.
They also had no backup plan. They failed to go beyond the Maginot Line, confident that it would work. WW I taught everyone about “defense in depth” and tanks, so they were fighting WW I in 1914, not 1918. Dumb dumb dumb.