Posted on 11/13/2018 7:06:44 AM PST by RoosterRedux
President Donald Trump ridiculed French President Emanuel Macron after a contentious visit to Paris in which his nationalist vision was rebuked by his host.
Trump first delivered a broadside against Macrons call for a new European military force independent of NATO so that the continent could secure its own military needs outside of U.S. influence. The president tweeted a similar attack at Macron before landing in Paris days earlier and the two discussed the military matter in a bilateral meeting Saturday.
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Macron is Pétain in short pants... without the kepi.
By contrast, the French underground, controversial and uneven, did a great service after DDay, impeding the progress of the elite and rested Das Reich Panzer Division being brought up from southern France to counterattack the flank of the Allied beach head.
You know, after what Chirac did to us when Bush was trying to gather a coalition of nations after 9/11, I could care less what Trump tweets about them. If I remember correctly, while being nice to Bush’s face, Chirac was working behind the scenes, calling other foreign leaders in an attempt to undermine Bush’s attempts to form a coalition.
Here’s what we all know about the French...they rolled over like lapdogs for the Nazis while their greatest (haha) general sat out the war in London. It took the Americans to help them decide which side to be on when they won the war. They couldn’t scramble to the table fast enough claiming victimhood and demanding their oversized piece of the pie. Again. And if all those who claimed to be in the imaginary “French underground” had joined the military they might have actually been able to protect themselves. And now? They are repeating the same by rolling over for the islamists and having their greatest cities being destroyed by another population that hates them and wants to bomb their monuments. Same mindset, different year. The French are NOT our friends and never have been. And please, I don’t want to hear about their help during our Revolution. They never even showed up until after the fighting was over. The Russians came to help us before the French did. And here’s the real kicker...their tourism is dying a painful death as it deserves.
The French stand at Bir Hacheim in North Africa was epic also!
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After the war, Generalmajor Friedrich von Mellenthin wrote, ‘In the whole course of the desert war, we never encountered a more heroic and well-sustained defence’ “
Usually the French army in modern times suffered more from poor higher military leadership and even worse political leadership saddling them with poor equipment & impossible situations then from a lack of courage.
Not this time. my grandfather landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and told me how few real Frenchman there actually were willing to fight for their country. I can imagine today it’s even less than it was back in 1944.
The sad fact is that the French Resistance consisted mainly of Communists.
French ancestry and language?
They would be wise to read and comprehend Solzhenitsyn’s words on how they burned with anger in the camps, thinking of the time when they should have resisted.
I guess we won’t have to save them a third time.
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It’s pointless to try to save a people that don’t want to be saved.
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Most of the men died childless. Many women consequently never married and remained barren. Modern birth control and widespread abortion did the rest.
You know we will tho. We always do.
Concurring bump...good idea.
Again, if the men who died had brothers or sisters who survived the war, those siblings carried similar genes as the soldier who died because all of them received equal/similar genetic input from their father and mother. The point being that the surviving siblings will pass-on genes similar to those of their dead brother. Also, if the soldier who died had children who survived the war, naturally the child would carry his (dead) father's and mother's genes.
Modern weapons serve to make men equal on the battlefield. Muscle is not as important as courage, knowledge and wisdom on the modern battlefield. As an earlier poster mentioned, both nurture and nature are factor in forming the mindset and abilities of a soldier. I tend to believe that nurture is the primary factor. I.e., courage, knowledge and wisdom come primarily from how we are nurtured/taught/raised more than our gene makeup.
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