Retreat to Dunkirk because you got completely rekt

>retreat to Dunkirk because you got completely rekt
>abandon your French ally to their fate, while they give you enough time to go back into your ships and flee France like rats
>lose all your war equipment because you're too busy retreating
>spin it as a historical and magnificent victory
how did eternal anglo get away with it?

Like in 1870, the Germans smashed the French at Sedan.

However, unlike in 1870, there was no reason this should have been decisive. But it was. The French Army's failure to plug the breech via an immediate counterattack cost them the war.

"General André Beaufre, then a junior staff officer at French general headquarters, described the impression the news made on General Georges at his command post at La Ferté early in the morning of 14 May: The atmosphere was that of a family in which there had been a death. Georges . . . was terribly pale. ‘Our front has been broken at Sedan. There has been a collapse. . . .’ He flung himself into a chair and burst into tears"

No-one ever spun it as a victory, it's the "Miracle of Dunkirk" that allowed Britain to remain in the fight, but it was and is remembered as "a disaster averted" rather than a victory.

>that same butthurt Frenchfag who thinks that British people consider Dunkirk a victory, and not just a brave evacuation that saved hundreds of thousands from captivity and a British surrender

cringe. obsessed

>save 20,000 French soldiers also cut off
>abandoned them
Fuck off, also:
It showed that the UK was all in it together, hugely symbolic as well like dday because they survived to fight another day dispite the Germans seeming invincible.

Who the fuck is claiming Dunkirk was a victory? I get that this board likes to be the anti /pol/ by switching out Jews for Anglos but this shit is getting old.

>dunkirk was literally anglos running away with their tails between their legs
>the "miracle" at dunkirk was more due to german incompetence more than any kind of tactical genius on britain's part
>yfw anglos still have the audacity to give france shit for being cowardly and complacent

That's why it's called a miracle

>Spin it as a magnificent victory
But they didn't, it was just the defining military engagement of the early war in Europe for the bongs as they were able to escape France relatively unscathed.

>save 20,000 French soldiers at the expense of many British troops
>99% of the French troops immediately return to France and surrender to the Germans

No one ever claims it was tactical genius you fucking spacker

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>he thinks Dunkirk is described as a magnificent victory
>not an amazing rescue effort of tiny ships sailing directly into the jaws of death to litterally snatch soldiers out of the water, with dozens of individual stories of heroism, like Lightoller and the Sundowner

You can tell it's Americunts making these threads. Their national psyche is so pumped up on being number one woo yeah USA USA USA that they can't understand why anyone would celebrate anything less than crushing victory, so assume any celebration is trying to spin it as such.

you're right
let's talk about the miracles of the Vietnam War and the Korean War that they swiftly hide from the scrolls of history

Not even OP but you brits do not even fight wars so there's nothing you could say about the last time you were in a major war. Now you're trying to flee the EU just like you flew Dunkirk but this time Jerry won't let you

The UK had a higher death toll than the us in ww2 nigga

>anything less than crushing victory

you know that includes utter humiliating defeat, right? Why would you celebrate that?

>waits until 1917
>waits until 1941
>Reagan asks Britain to find a peaceful negotiation with the Argentinian Junta and tries to stall the Falklands; effectively letting citizens sit under dictatorship

>no one posting the fact HITLER LET THEM GO because muh honorable treatment of the Brits

Yes, we try not to post idiotic ahistorical memes here, although they occasionally slip through.

No he didn't. The halt was ordered due to low supply.

That's basically bullshit, though.

Again, missing the entire point. It's not celebrated because so many were lost. It's celebrated because so many were saved.

I think I would rather trust Von Rundstedt, who knew Hitler, than a bunch of anons on Veeky Forums.

Ah yes, leave it to the eternal anglo to spin cowardly leaving your allies to get conquered into a "heroic" epic

Dont forget that these cowards also attacked french ships in mars el kebir and southern france to save their monkey island

You mean the same Von Rundstedt who recommended a halt order based on purely military grounds, like how his units were down to close to 50% operational strength and it was more important to pursue the French than clean up a pocket? That Von Rundstedt?

>expecting the French army to defend France is too much
>expecting the French fleet to continue fighting for France is also too much

It is impossible for us, your comrades up to now, to allow your fine ships to fall into the power of the German enemy. We are determined to fight on until the end, and if we win, as we think we shall, we shall never forget that France was our Ally, that our interests are the same as hers, and that our common enemy is Germany. Should we conquer we solemnly declare that we shall restore the greatness and territory of France. For this purpose we must make sure that the best ships of the French Navy are not used against us by the common foe. In these circumstances, His Majesty's Government have instructed me to demand that the French Fleet now at Mers el Kebir andOranshall act in accordance with one of the following alternatives;

(a) Sail with us and continue the fight until victory against the Germans.

(b) Sail with reduced crews under our control to a British port. The reduced crews would be repatriated at the earliest moment.

If either of these courses is adopted by you we will restore your ships to France at the conclusion of the war or pay full compensation if they are damaged meanwhile.

(c) Alternatively if you feel bound to stipulate that your ships should not be used against the Germans lest they break theArmistice, then sail them with us with reduced crews to some French port in theWest Indies—Martiniquefor instance – where they can be demilitarised to our satisfaction, or perhaps be entrusted to the United States and remain safe until the end of the war, the crews being repatriated.

If you refuse these fair offers, I must with profound regret, require you to sink your ships within 6 hours.

Finally, failing the above, I have the orders from His Majesty's Government to use whatever force may be necessary to prevent your ships from falling into German hands.

Nigger it's called a "miracle" because it shouldn't have happened, yet did. Circumstances just came together to enable it.

Yeah user, that Von Rundstedt, the one who implied Hitler agreed because he thought a peace might be obtained prior to Barbarossa.

Thank you.

Nothing short of divine intervention saved the English army from certain destruction.

>the English army

Easy to forget.

>vietnam war
>korean war
>implying implied implications
in vietnam, they had about a milion dead combatants plus half a million wounded. we only had 50,000 killed. that war lasted 19 and a half years.
in korea there were over 2 million civilian deaths and almost one million combatants killed. and we werent even the backbone like in vietnam.
neither of those wars are strictly american.

because we were better soldiers

Ahahahahahahaha

;)

>muh K/D ratio

By the same standard, the Axis won WW2 then?

Well that's just not true