>claim to have the strongest army in Europe, because you managed to beat Germans with British holding half of line and starving them by blockade
>spend the army budget building impressive shiny forts along the border
>just sit in your forts, betray the ally you joined the war for
>get cocky and send the best armies to Belgium
>Germans just send their tanks a bit more south and your army breaks down trying to go back
>lose the war in 6 (six) weeks
>do nothing for the rest of war but act butthurt
>pretend that "French resistance" was a real thing
>pretend that victory in WW2 had anything to do with you
>pretend that more French didn't fight for Germans than "Free French Forces"
>pretend that in reality you mostly aided German effort by surrendering your materiel and factories for their use
>receive occupation zone in Germany out of British and American pity
>proceed to vent out your rage at being a cheese eating surrender monkey on German civilians
Was there a funnier and more pathetic episode in history?
Claim to have the strongest army in Europe...
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The Maginot line did what it was designed to do, and the entire point was to make Germany invade through Belgium, so the war could be fought on foreign soil.
Germany after WW1.
Oh look, its this maymay litterally dreamed up by a bunch of (((script writers))) for (((The Simpsons))).
>It's a butthurt Nigel gets btfo and decides to make a butthurt thread episode
Now thats a funnier and more pathetic episode.
what if they had extended the maginot line to the atlantic?
would germany have attacked through switzerland?
would it have been a Germany + Italy southern war with the German army marching towardss marseilles?
Ironically the French Waffen SS were the last troops to surrender.
Literally couldn't make it up.
Ah yes, let's attack through MOUNTAINS
I was under the impression Belgium gave France shit for considering building the Maginot line behind them along the French border and then never bother or refused to complete it along their German border.
Is this not true?
>claim to have the strongest army in Europe, because you managed to beat Germans with British holding half of line and starving them by blockade
The British didn't send a significant number of troops until the Somme, which means that France basically single-handedly held the Western Front until late 1916
And even then, the French held half the front at the Somme and all of it at Verdun
it's only from mid to late 1917 that the Brits became relevant when the French army had its mutinies
It didn't last long because when 1918 came, France reverted to carrying most of the weight, Foch became supreme allied commander and France lead the 100 days offensive that brought victory
That was for WW1
But you're right that Interwar and WW2 France was full of shit (barely any more than Britain but still)
>bongs and frogs use poland and belgium as buffer states but don't actually give them the support they need
>to beat Germans with British holding half of line and starving them by blockade
stopped reading right there
Switzerland was a possibility because it's not only mountains actually. They were armed to the teeth because they feared the french could try to attack germany through its territory the same way the germans did through belgium and holland
It was a bad leadership the french soldier did what they could and under the german they fought admyrably
Germany and Italy would have no problem with that. They both had plenty of divisions that were experts at mountain warfare. The only reason they didn't bother invading was that Switzerland was already giving them everything they wanted and there was no way for the allies to invade Switzerland.
British butthurt
>Germany and Italy would have no problem with that
You can't blitzkrieg through mountains, and you can't expect the Italians not to fuck up, especially in mountains, see WW1
Protip: Italy had interest in taking up Chiasso and Canton Ticino, and it had prepared specifically to fight in the mountains (also part of the reasons for why their tactics sucked ass in North Africa). For all its bluster and pomp, the Swiss had little chance to actually defend what Italy wanted.
>proceed to vent out your rage at being a cheese eating surrender monkey on German civilians
The French occupation of Germany after WWII was probably the most lenient of the four, actually
Really?
Naw, "cheese eating surrender monkey" is something an American would say.
Switzerland is the most defensible country in all of Europe
Just see the trouble Germany had with the Netherlands, you expect a lesser army to do better in worse conditions?
Not him, and I agree with you that Switzerland was tough as balls, but what trouble did Germany have with the Netherlands? They overran them in like a week.
>it's only from mid to late 1917 that the Brits became relevant when the French army had its mutinies
meme
If the French army stopped to fight during several month, the Germans would have attack and took Paris
Despite a massive materiel and manpower advantage to Germany that saw them overrun the country, the actual battles were quite a slog.
They did have the strongest army in Europe at the time. The problem is simply that France relied on WWI strategies. If they had launched an offensive before the German breakthrough, the war might have ended in 1940.
No they weren't. If you assume an average strength of 16,600 per division, that means the Germans suffered about 2% losses. They took far longer and got hurt far worse on both a relative and an absolute scale against Poland, and that was considered a pretty easy sweep up, all things considered.
I bet you're english.