Unfortunately this issue can only be resolved by “rivers of blood.”
They initially made a big start showing the French the power of well trained archers, but over time they ended up using cannons, and the French too got cannons and they turned to shooting cannons at the other guy's cannons.
But that's not what bogged them down in an almost endless serious of invasions and retreats, and finally total losses.
It was the plundering. You read any serious piece about the Hundred Years War you run into it.
Rather than make the effort to hold and govern an area the English commanders would bring their troops up to a town ~ and send an emissary to approach the gate with a demand ~ to wit, send out the 10, 20, or whatever number of the town's richest men with their stuff, and we'll go away.
The townsmen always complied, and in short order the now wealthy English commanders would high tail it back to Merry old England with the loot ~ leaving further pursuit of war to others~
The French were gradually unburdened of their coupon clippers and minor titled nobles, and corrupt sheriffs and constables and began to take heart. When Jeanne d'Arc strode on the world stage they were ready to take it to the English.
In the end the English accepted Jeanne ~ like they had so many wealthy minor nobles before her ~ burned her at the stake, and were shortly reduced to a small holding in the Far West ~ destroyed by their own avarice ~ while the French had been strengthened through the loss of their own.
Do not imagine for a second that others think of the wealthy as givers ~
Unfortunately, you are correct sir. It is an opinion shared by many.
It is really sad to realize that there is no political solution to the problems we have due to the “free stuff” class numerical advantage due to subsidized govt. breeding programs. Washington cannot or will not govern, and our children/grand children will be impoverished with debt they cannot repay.