*blocks your path*
*blocks your path*
Christopher Wright
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Carter Perry
It would have been REALLY FUCKING COOL if we saw how well the line actually worked
Anthony Allen
Technically we did
Gabriel Lopez
Yeah, Germans just went around it. Pretty much did what a fortification is supposed to do.
Jordan Garcia
What was the point of building a fortification that you can literally just walk around?
Austin Lopez
the maginot line was supposed to link up with similar belgian defenses that were never built
Ian Baker
I think that was the point. Force the Germans into Belgium and beat them there.
Colton James
They never expected Germans to go around all the defences a second time through Belgium.
Jordan Clark
pshhh nothing personal static defense
Lucas Nguyen
*blocks your path*
Jonathan Price
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James Gomez
*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*
Easton Anderson
VISIBLE
FROM
SPACE
Evan Rodriguez
the mongolians literally just went around it
Christopher Howard
The point was to force the Germans into belgium (and perhaps trigger Great Britain's entry into the war like in WW1 on the off chance france goes to war with Germany but Britain doesn't as could have happened during the Munich crisis).
"hurr durr the french never saw it coming" is a historical myth. The French failure was entirely due to failure of general command, failure of tank doctrine, and failure to take note of the spearhead in the Ardennes before it was far too late.
Christopher Jones
It actually isn't.
Charles Gonzalez
Joke might be on you, I think that guy may have been pretending to be retarded
Luke Ross
*blocks your bridge*
Jaxson Reed
Why is Belgium so fucking terrible?
Brayden Sullivan
John Hall
Only reason Belgium even excists is because Brits had an autistic fit when France tried to take it for themselves.
Jose White
actually the french asked belgium to build defenses on the french-belgian border and didn't offer to cover the costs
belgium in turn responded if they wanted defenses there, they could bloody well build them with french money because they weren't going to pay out of their own pocket just to get turned into another great war style battleground
Ian Cooper
Lol did this really happen? Are the French so retarded?
Jordan Wright
>France: Belgium, my friend, let us build defenses in your country to deter German invasions.
>Belgium: No, it might give the Germans a reason to attack us as part of a war with you!
>France: Okay, we'll just have to build up our own border with Germany. Enjoy being Johann's passing lane.
Eli King
yeh, it wasn't exactly on the border but basically the french plan was for belgium to surrdender 80% of its territory including virtually all the industry and population to the germans in case of war, then use belgium instead of france as a battleground for the war
belgium wasn't particularly happy about this idea
belgium also managed to intercept several of the german plans of assault from a crashed plane
the french high command refused to even look at the intel
Adam Bell
Takes the Belgian super highway to Paris
Isaac Sanchez
also a failure to properly appreciate the destructive potential of close air support
Brody Ross
>Build a fuckhuge defensive line
>Belgium tells you to fuck off when you demand they help you with your stupid project.
>Decide to stick with the plan, even though Belgium tells you repeatedly that the Germans are just going to go around
>get your shit pushed in, and decide to blame Belgium because they didn't help
Fuck the french, desu.
Tyler Flores
all it would take is one artillery peice to knock that shit over
Jonathan Torres
you can never block everything, you can try really hard and maybe do pretty good but you'll never ever block everything
you must block strategically
Bentley Lee
>make a country out of thin air
>expect it to function
look what happened in africa senpai