The ad for the never fired dropped once rifle is an utterly ignorant joke. And utterly unjustified.
The French had about 1.3 million soldiers killed in WWI, compared to the british 875k.
In WWII, in the battle of France, the French lost about 85,000 compared to the British losing about 10,000. The Germans lost about 150,000 dead and wounded and 28% of the Luftwaffe.
In WWI the -tea drinking- surrender monkeys love to talk about the miracle at Dunkirk. That’s where they ran away from their side of the salient and left the French on their own.
And does anyone remember Singapore? That was where 85,000 Brits surrendered to 36,000 Japs.
The French fought long and hard and the Collapse was the result of a new warfighting strategy the Nazis used. The whole world was unprepared.
The only French who can be fairly slandered were some political leaders, but not their soldiers.
It is dense to slander the French military.
And also more Germans surrendered than French.
Especially since the joke was about an italian rifle.
I seem to remember a chap named Napoleon who came damned close to conquering the whole of Europe. I think he was using a French field army at the time.
And IIRC the generals who fought the American Civil War studied his campaigns to learn how to fight great battles.
The only French who can be fairly slandered were some political leaders, but not their soldiers.
_____________________________________
yes the Vichy government...
and their Maginot line...
“The French fought long and hard and the Collapse was the result of a new warfighting strategy the Nazis used. The whole world was unprepared.
The only French who can be fairly slandered were some political leaders, but not their soldiers.”
Thing is, that the French also had the Resistance and did a lot of vicious things to Nazis and collaborators behind closed doors. So they never really surrendered at all, just began more covert means of fighting.