Fletcher, you have to be kidding.
The French were going to clean up the Middle East? Internationally they have always been part of the problem.
And post war Britain was so angst addled they weren’t good for doing much of anything except nationalising their industry and sabotaging themselves like a third world country.
I guess we were being bully boys when we finally stepped in to clean up fascism for you ‘cuz you weren’t doing all that good a job, right?
And that was only 25 years after we had to save your raggedy hides in France in 1918.
I’m only glad your navy and air force weren’t as incompetent as your army or you wouldn’t have been worth saving. Again.
As for the French…words fail.
What a punk neighbourhood. Get into trouble and then we had to go bail y’all out time after time.
The latest two being after that arms embargo the euro-weenies imposed in Bosnia leaving the Serbs with all the tanks, artillery, and planes from the former Yugoslav Army which they dominated and the Bosnians with nothing.
And then there’s cut and run in Basra…
Seems the Europeans are so busy wagging their fingers and moralising that they can’t even reproduce, nor invest enough in defence for their countries to remain viable.
Hiding behind Sam’s skirts as usual.
Hmmmffff.