What do you call the napolenic wars then? Or that time the Prussians came to play? If we expand to just losing, we can add the various 20th century colonial wars.
WingKlutzy7819 on
Wasn’t it the most important war?
Commercial-East4069 on
Napoleon ain’ walking through them doors boys!
Acrobatic-Rip-4362 on
Yeah the French shouldn’t **capitulate** to these keyboard warriors! Try not to **surrender** to the haters
AirsoftUrban on
Well they also surrendered and then killed Allied troops who were landing in North Africa, so
Wild-Yesterday-6666 on
The french explaining how they have the most military victories of any nation (half are battles against underdeveloped african tribes):
kingofawkward99 on
I mean they lost most of their wars with Britain
Lilfozzy on
Austria stole all of France’s brain cells when it came to war after the napoleonic wars and spent most of the 19th century fighting bitter wars with every neighbor and somehow still managing to enter the 20th century in recovery mode and an extremely robust and talented junior officer corps… then France stole its mojo back and the Austrians literally pissed their best units and said junior officer corps away in two campaigns.
FlyingYankee118 on
Here we go again…
SeriousFinish6404 on
I mean, when you lose one of the few wars everyone knows about in under a month, you do tend to get clowned on.
MrFBIGamin on
Not to mention that France, has the most military victories resulting in 1,115 battles being won.
Asleep-University308 on
Tbf it’s moreso the nature of the surrender that they were knocked out in 6 weeks combined with WW2 being the most recent major great power war.
An8thOfFeanor on
*(Laughs in Franco-Prussian War)*
ScottyBoneman on
I think a huge part of the ‘France surrenders’ thing is revealed by the timing. US still pretty in love with France and French culture after WW2, but fades slightly later.
France didn’t have the fortitude to win an easy war like Vietnam and quit early. The US pretty sure they’d be able to show them how it’s done.
JamescomersForgoPass on
Honestly France deserves the mockery because they spent most of their Army budget on a wall with the intent to divert Germany through the Benelux where they can fight them with their army
The problem is that the Army thats supposed to fight Germany in the benelux was utter balls and was essentially stuck in 1929 and would be defeated by the Germans either way rendering the entire Maginot strategy useless
Namixrobin121 on
1871 lol
MammothPenguin69 on
France spent 100 years getting repeatedly rolled by a bunch of Yokels with Longbows until a Schizophrenic Teenage Girl bailed them out.
France lost the Franco Prussian war through pure incompetence.
It’s not just a matter of surrendering once.
Grzechoooo on
Well yeah, if you have supposedly the greatest military record but then you surrender immediately when you’re needed most and become one of the most enthusiastic collaborators, you deserve ridicule.
KaytinGreyshade on
Honestly my default response to this old joke is “Verdun, bitch”. I do like to pick on the french a lot but their military history is pretty impressive
Just_the_Setup on
France was so good militarily they basically took over England and English culture so long ago, that we all sort of forgot about it.
Questionableth0ught on
And a big reason why they surrendered was because Belgium decided to “be neutral” and ended up getitng invaded anyways, and yet the French get made fun of
TexasSikh on
When your nation ceases to exist within 3 seconds of your neighbor declaring war and overrunning you, and the ONLY reason your nation was rebirthed is because of the efforts of the world combining to rescue you from your demise…you cease to have a legitimate claim to the glories of the past.
France exists today because of the British Empire and the American Republic, along with efforts of other smaller allies (Tankies, don’t you fucking dare try to jump in with your horseshit “Eastern Front won the war” nonsense, Soviet Russia helped the Nazis START the damn war in the first place, stfu). When it’s that bad, its that bad.
MrMr_sir_sir on
Even when you mention World War One, where the French people fought bravely for their homeland, and battled the Germans to a standstill people will always disregard that and say “b-but the British were there too” as if being in a coalition disregards the sacrifices made by any person in the war.
Azkral on
Poland
Belgium
Denmark
Norway
All surrendered before France and nobody cares
Ill-Dependent2976 on
It’s all the more ironic, because France won WWII.
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What do you call the napolenic wars then? Or that time the Prussians came to play? If we expand to just losing, we can add the various 20th century colonial wars.
Wasn’t it the most important war?
Napoleon ain’ walking through them doors boys!
Yeah the French shouldn’t **capitulate** to these keyboard warriors! Try not to **surrender** to the haters
Well they also surrendered and then killed Allied troops who were landing in North Africa, so
The french explaining how they have the most military victories of any nation (half are battles against underdeveloped african tribes):
I mean they lost most of their wars with Britain
Austria stole all of France’s brain cells when it came to war after the napoleonic wars and spent most of the 19th century fighting bitter wars with every neighbor and somehow still managing to enter the 20th century in recovery mode and an extremely robust and talented junior officer corps… then France stole its mojo back and the Austrians literally pissed their best units and said junior officer corps away in two campaigns.
Here we go again…
I mean, when you lose one of the few wars everyone knows about in under a month, you do tend to get clowned on.
Not to mention that France, has the most military victories resulting in 1,115 battles being won.
Tbf it’s moreso the nature of the surrender that they were knocked out in 6 weeks combined with WW2 being the most recent major great power war.
*(Laughs in Franco-Prussian War)*
I think a huge part of the ‘France surrenders’ thing is revealed by the timing. US still pretty in love with France and French culture after WW2, but fades slightly later.
France didn’t have the fortitude to win an easy war like Vietnam and quit early. The US pretty sure they’d be able to show them how it’s done.
Honestly France deserves the mockery because they spent most of their Army budget on a wall with the intent to divert Germany through the Benelux where they can fight them with their army
The problem is that the Army thats supposed to fight Germany in the benelux was utter balls and was essentially stuck in 1929 and would be defeated by the Germans either way rendering the entire Maginot strategy useless
1871 lol
France spent 100 years getting repeatedly rolled by a bunch of Yokels with Longbows until a Schizophrenic Teenage Girl bailed them out.
France lost the Franco Prussian war through pure incompetence.
It’s not just a matter of surrendering once.
Well yeah, if you have supposedly the greatest military record but then you surrender immediately when you’re needed most and become one of the most enthusiastic collaborators, you deserve ridicule.
Honestly my default response to this old joke is “Verdun, bitch”. I do like to pick on the french a lot but their military history is pretty impressive
France was so good militarily they basically took over England and English culture so long ago, that we all sort of forgot about it.
And a big reason why they surrendered was because Belgium decided to “be neutral” and ended up getitng invaded anyways, and yet the French get made fun of
When your nation ceases to exist within 3 seconds of your neighbor declaring war and overrunning you, and the ONLY reason your nation was rebirthed is because of the efforts of the world combining to rescue you from your demise…you cease to have a legitimate claim to the glories of the past.
France exists today because of the British Empire and the American Republic, along with efforts of other smaller allies (Tankies, don’t you fucking dare try to jump in with your horseshit “Eastern Front won the war” nonsense, Soviet Russia helped the Nazis START the damn war in the first place, stfu). When it’s that bad, its that bad.
Even when you mention World War One, where the French people fought bravely for their homeland, and battled the Germans to a standstill people will always disregard that and say “b-but the British were there too” as if being in a coalition disregards the sacrifices made by any person in the war.
Poland
Belgium
Denmark
Norway
All surrendered before France and nobody cares
It’s all the more ironic, because France won WWII.
It’s surrender was a temporary condition.