Posted on 08/18/2022 1:23:53 PM PDT by conservative98
Exactly
“Ducey suspects foul play”
Probably by the “Homeland Security”.
Actually, the Germans bypassed the Maginot line. So, in a way, it did work. It just needed to be longer
The sand can always sold later for whatever else they use sand for, so it wouldn’t be a waste of much money.
The Maginot line did “work”, to the degree that it reduced the number of men required to hold that part of the front line in 1940. France had a serious problem with manpower in 1940.
The real problem with the Maginot line is that it was not extended far enough north. The principal stretch of heavy fortifications ended just south of Sedan, which was where, not coincidentally, that the Germans broke through.
Had there been a series of “ouvrages” at Sedan, that would have, for one thing, reduced the effect of the Luftwaffe on the French artillery, and the guns of the ouvrages would have retained coverage of the Meuse crossing points, making it more difficult and costly to establish pontoon bridges. More and better bunkers would also have complicated the job of the German engineers in clearing the direct fire defenses, and the ouvrages and deeper bunker systems would also have been bones in the throat of the forces attempting to exploit beyond the Meuse bridgeheads. This all would have bought time for the French reserves to come up.
They are, bolting and welding. This was apparently a newly placed structure......
We do have some pretty stiff wind here during monsoon season.
“Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man.”
10,000 lift capacity, 4-wheel drive.
If it were my back yard, and this was a sane nation, I would take potshots at those destroying my property.
Or I could invite them in, give them a summons to return for a hearing. Not caring that these people are our enemies, is insane. They may be great people, but they are enemies of the State invited in by those who call ME an enemy of the state.
Patton didn't want to "patrol" anything. If one of his officers said that, he'd fire the guy.
"I don't want to hear about "patrolling! I want to hear about ATTACKING! ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK! Keep moving!"
Patrolling doesn't make a difference either if the congresscritters and puddin' head don't enforce the laws.
The Maginot line was a great defense, but the French forgot that a determined force could go around it.
If we have a border wall, strong enforcement at the airports, from ships and laws against employing, harboring, social services, renting homes, licensing them and codify into law that a citizen is someone born in the US to citizens. All others, are children of invaders. EXPEL THEM ALL.
This country is being overpopulated by INVADERS, not by Americans making families. Our roads are crowded because of INVADERS. Our power and water needs are stretched, because of INVADERS. Our schools are full and ineffective. Hospitals are overrun, and entire generations of American children do not know how to work, because of INVADERS hired by American farmers.
I picked berrys, beans, peas, and worked potatoes and haying fields. I was in grade school, and in high school. What is summer for? For kids to get into trouble now. It used to be how boys became men, and girls became women. As THEY used to take summer jobs too. Work at a cannery, shuck oysters, pick weeds.
I’m sure, like train cars, it will be covered in graffiti in a few days.
fixed
A few dozen Claymores would dissuade this.
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“That doesn’t happen with wind”.
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We have a really high IQ individual right here.
Tippy Toes couldn’t make it, eh?
Pretty funny. Build the damn wall right. Maybe he could hire Trump as a consultant.
Weld them together.
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