Which explains France's postion in the world, and her economy, and America's.
France has been waiting, eagerly, for America to self-destruct a long time. Y'all've got a lot longer to wait, but if it pleases you, feel free to continue to pretend France is a paragon of the virtues, while eeeeeevil America keeps screwing up and expanding its economy and making the world a better place for bordeux-sipping nobodies who've contributed zero to the world since WW2.
“Which explains France’s postion in the world, and her economy, and America’s.”
No, actually, sheer size explains those things.