This promotion of balkanization is of course is an attempt to create a power vacuum, one that will allow a conqueror to come in and fill that vacuum.
The French are weird. They can surrender in an outside war at the drop of a hat, but mess with their culture and they will exterminate you.
“...The French are weird. They can surrender in an outside war at the drop of a hat, but mess with their culture and they will exterminate you....”
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That’s true...only THEY are allowed to destroy French culture.