Posted on 05/05/2024 8:29:22 AM PDT by Drew68
The US worked hard for years to achieve war between Russia and Ukraine, give credit where it’s due.
1500 French Surrender Monkey’s isn’t enough.
Send in 15,000 French Surrender Monkey’s.
It’s over in Berdycia, a village of 300, but at a cost of a battalian!
https://youtu.be/isXn-ghxzB4?si=nKsfqVzaaa-bg6tU
That’s complete bull crap. There was a complete French armored division involved in desert shield desert storm. He’s just making things up today. Also France never last NATO. They simply refused to place the fridge military under the command of an overall NATO military commander. Essentially they did not want American military officers commanding the French army. And they decided not to have any more NATO bases on French soil.
And that didn’t exactly happen in the vacuum. In the two years before, NATO and the CIA was not seen as an asset for France. People forget that the generals putsch was launched two days after the Bay of Pigs. With the world distracted by an American invasion of Cuba, Charles de Gaulle was supposed to be overthrown. The CIA claimed not to be involved, but they were eyeballs deep with the French generals. A year after that a French colonel from that era let assassination attempt against Charles DeGaulle and his wife. A machine gun ambush that failed. All of those things culminated in I’m not really seeing NATO as protection for France.
The French leaders are being retards today. But it’s very hard to find fault in the decisions of Charles DeGaulle in the early 60s.
The French “Advisors” got slaughtered in Vietnam.
If it’s not fake news, it’s one of the craziest decisions on every level. Does very little for a big problem France face is at the moment, and opens them up to all kinds of problems. But you know, a common thread to these people like Macron, they don’t have children. He doesn’t care what kind of world he leaves behind.
They were sent there to teach the Ukrinees how to retreat. It’s what the French do most.
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They were sent there to teach the Ukrinees how to retreat. It’s what the French do most.
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That makes way more sense than an organized unit of the foreign legion. So essentially it’s mercenaries.
The French “Advisors” got slaughtered in Vietnam.
Wonder how many were former Waffen SS, who joined The French Foreign Legion after the war?
Maybe we can send them some white flags.
LOL.
It’s Europe again Boo Boo getting us involved in another world war
France is always there for us when she needs us.
Curious why you think French soldiers are surrender monkeys. Was it their performance in Mexico? Over a century in North Africa? At the battle of Yorktown where essentially it was the French military fighting the British? Was the their performance in World War I, with Verdun being particularly noteworthy? Was it their heroic and desperate fight at Dien Ben Phu?
Was it their fight in World War II where they lost more casualties in six weeks than we did in the whole Vietnam war before they were out classed by the modernized German military?
We never stop hearing about poppies, Flanders field etc. France came close to doubling the British dead in World War II. And funny how we never hear about tea drinking surrender monkeys were the British army fled the battlefield in World War II at Dunkirk. Their runaway is cast as a heroic thing. Or how about Singapore, or a new chapter of military history was written when an army surrendered to an attack and forced 1/3 of its size.
A lot of the bull crap people put out about the French being cowards is British propaganda, and American leaders upset that the French will not rubberstamp everything we tell them to do. I am second to none of my scored for the French government. But you will never hear a professional talk crap about the French army
> If it’s not fake news, it’s one of the craziest decisions on every level. <
Agreed. Out of curiosity, I did a bit more digging. No major news service is mentioning this story. Plenty of minor ones are. But they all either link to ‘Asia Times’ or to Russian-language sites.
Hmm. I’d make a small wager that this story is rather clever Russian disinformation. I could be totally wrong. (My ex-wife used to mention that often. That’s why she’s my ex-wife.)
Scorn for the French government
Zackly. They could lose their country while trying to sustain Ukraine.
Stephen Bryen, the author of this piece, is a former US deputy undersecretary of defense for policy.
This will turn out to be another Vietnam.
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