There is nothing redeemable their mate except for Britian literally siding with them because they knew france would get BTFO without their help. France was literally saved because it was so pathetic.
French Republicanism is a the destroyer of France don't doubt it for a second.
Isaac King
>France was literally saved because it was so pathetic.
France held the Western Front for two years with barely any British help.
Tyler Brown
this would be impressive if the western front wasn't already in france
Andrew Anderson
>a country successfully defending itself alone against another twice its size with the best army in the world is not impressive, despite literal millions of deaths
Isn't it nice to ignore the FUCKING LARGEST CONFLICT IN HUMAN HISTORY VOL. 2?
Zachary Garcia
(Same user) AND NO, NORTH AFRICA DOESNT COUNT, BECAUSE IT WAS FUCKING CARRIED BY THE BRITISH AND LATER THE AMERICANS. DON'T EVEN PERSONALLY HATE FRANCE.
Wyatt Cooper
literally been posted several times in the thread >DON'T EVEN PERSONALLY HATE FRANCE. Sure, your blind tard rage comes from nowhere.
The schleiffen plan was literally stopped from taking paris by the british.
The british literally only joined the war because the balance of power meme dictated they had to save France.
France would have lost the war witout hte british.
Benjamin Young
>France traditionally had the largest population in Europe. >In fact it was the third most populous region on Earth for most of its post-Roman history, only surpassed by China and India. >For some reason is the only nation in Europe to not experience a population explosion during the Industrial Revolution. >This relative decline in population allowed other nations to catch up to it in terms of output and power, causing French influence to wane. If they had a comparable population boom to the rest of Europe, there'd be roughly as many people in France today as there are in the US. It's one of the greater mysteries of demography but also a major explanation for why they declined in relevance.
Julian Reed
>Less troops than Germany >Suffer more casualties than Germany
Elijah Myers
This
The only reason Britain even bothered to make an alliance with France is because they KNEW that the French had no conditions whatsoever to hold back Germany on their own, and the Brits would rather have the French as competition than the Germans. The frogs could be easily controlled and manipulated, but the krauts would be a serious threat to the eternal anglo's plans of world domination if they managed to get hegemony.
Matthew Turner
lmao it's literally the other way around. The British joined so they would have a say in redrawing Europe after French victory, and prevent France from dismantling Germany. Because even after fucking WW1, the British were still more scared of France than of Germany, and so wanted to keep Germany around as a counterweight against France.
William Ramirez
this desu. That's why they were the mostly vocal opposition to French plans regarding the treaty of Versailles
Matthew Taylor
>"The schleiffen plan was literally stopped from taking paris by the british." >50,000 Brits mattered more than a million and a half French soldiers Oh user.
Grayson Wilson
>Brits whine on /pol/ because non-whites (who made up for 25% of their army in the war, pic related) are getting representation in WW1 media >But somehow, it's normal to them to imply that the BEF (which made up for 6.72% of allied troops at the First Marne) was decisive n shieeeeet in that battle
And then they wonder why everyone on Veeky Forums insults them I'm Indian and it's that kind of shit that makes me despise them
Evan King
Mobilized could literally mean anything from Infantryman to Doctor. It doesn't imply frontline combat. Secondly, the Indian army was entirely volunteer based. Britain didn't conscript them at all. thirdly, Brits were less than 2/10 of the empire but 8/10 of the casualties.
Isaac Baker
>120,000 BEF troops who inflicted ~100,000 casualties mattered more than the millions of French troops who inflicted ~750,000 casualties