Posted on 11/13/2018 10:53:06 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Donald Trump escalated his verbal assaults against France on Tuesday, suggesting that America’s stalwart European ally would have been vanquished in both world wars if not for the military firepower provided by the United States.
Trump tweeted about a suggestion by French President Emmanuel Macron that Europe build up its militaries because the continent can no longer depend on the U.S. for defense. Macron had also said Europe needs to protect itself against cyberthreats from China, Russia and the U.S.
Macron’s comments were inaccurately reported and Trump continues to misrepresent them, seemingly for political hay. The French leader’s office said Trump had lumped together Macron’s remarks on protecting against cyber-threats and “interference in our democracies” from “China, Russia and even the United States” with Macron’s later statement on military defense....
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Let em flip us the finger.. I am fine pulling our troops and materials out of Europe... IF, and that’s the kicker.... IF EUROPE is SERIOUS about defending itself...
Given its let the wolves in already I hold ZERO faith they are serious about defending their nations
None that I'm aware of.
Please remind me. When was the last time we were on the same side? 1944?
You might change your mind about that after reading Diane West’s “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”.
Truman’s closest advisor Harry Hopkins, on his own signature, was diverting major war material scheduled for Great Britain to the Soviet. A very well documented eye opener. Makes one ready to hoist the Black Flag and start cutting throats.
Would it be uncouth to point out the fact that far more Jews from France died in Hitler’s nasty death camps than those from Italy, a supposed ally?
“Would’ve been defeated?”
The Wehrmacht marched in and occupied France without a fight. That’s not a defeat, that’s an uncontested occupation.
France sucks, and always will.
The French army by 1917 was pretty much a “spent force”. The 2nd Battle of the Aisne, was the last straw. It as not going to do any more suicidal assaults. This was when the French Army munity of 1917 occurred. Petain was the one that actually got the army calmed down. Basically it ws no more assaults, wait for the Americans.
The thing is if we had stayed out, the whole thing might have ended right there. The French would have been forced to negotiate with the Germans, I doubt seriously if he British would have been able to stop them Lurking in the back of everyone’s mind was the Russian Revolution. Many in the Allied governments were worried that they might be next. Of course it would have ended with Germany in a predominate European position and likely a Bolshevik Russia. However with reasonably strong Imperial Germany to oppose them.
This too would make for an interesting alternative history SciFi novel!
Very true. But in addition one cannot overlook the military materiel we provided them in those dark days until the Soviets were able to build up their war machine further east. The courage it took for the American and British Merchant Marine to make those voyages to Archangel unarmed or lightly armed in icy, Uboat infested waters is amazing.
Well, maybe.
By the time the US entered, all the combatants were worn down to the nub. Russia had actually quit. Germany was on the verge of being unable to continue as was Fance
Every time there has been a sauerkraut driven fart that's made its way across the French border in the last 100 years the French have bent over and grabbed their Frog Legs in submission, if not collaboration.
Suggests? Hell, we won France from the Krauts fair and square, twice in one century, then gave it back to the cheese-eating surrender monkeys!
“France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes.” —Mark Twain
“I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.” —General George S. Patton
“Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.” —Norman Schwartzkopf
“We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it.” —Marge Simpson
“As far as I’m concerned, war always means failure.” —Jacques Chirac, President of France
“As far as France is concerned, you’re right.” —Rush Limbaugh
“The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.” —Regis Philbin
“The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don’t know.” —P.J O’Rourke (1989)
“You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn’t have the face for it.” —John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona
“They’ve taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house.” —Argus Hamilton
“The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.” —Dennis Miller
“I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac.” —Dennis Miller
“You know why the French don’t want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses and wears a beret. He IS French, people.” —Conan O’Brien
“I don’t know why people are surprised that France won’t help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn’t help us get the Germans out of France!” —Jay Leno
“The last time the French asked for ‘more proof,’ it came marching into Paris under a German flag.” —David Letterman
How many Frenchmen does it take to change a light bulb?
One. He holds the bulb and all of Europe revolves around him.
An old saying: Raise your right hand if you like the French.... Raise both hands if you are French.
That was WW1.
WW2, the French surrendered......in the same railcar used for the Armistice in WW1... to the advancing Nazi's and were subjugated as the Vichy French until June 6th, 1944.
So, yeah....the US has saved the French butt.....twice and wound up taking over for them in VietNam after they surrendered.....again
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Britain needed a “Brexit” in 1941. Germany was no threat to the British Empire. France was more their traditional rival than Germany was.
Britain needed a “Brexit” in 1941.
Ooops, that should be “1914”.
Cheese-eating surrender monkeys?
Would it be equally uncouth to point out that French anti-Semitism was rivaled only by the Nazis and is now on the upswing again, as is all of Europe, due to the massive influx of Muslims?
The man is always speaking truth to power
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