Helping America was financially suboptimal
by Kapanash
Helping America was financially suboptimal
by Kapanash
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Very good at commerce but poor in managing finances I guess.
When France said that they were about to loan the US money, they didn’t expect that the US will be paying them revolution as collateral.
They wanted to fuck with the British, we never forced them to pay anything.
The Kingdom of France’s greatest mistake.
Less out of ‘Liberté, égalité, fraternité’ and more out of ‘man, we really don’t like the British’.
I think this was France’s greatest mistake ever
France was an extremely dysfunctional state by that point. A French Revolution was pretty inevitable.
Should have probably used the Bourbon Flag, using the tricolor makes it look like the revolutionaries weren’t happy about this
French Monarchy: I’m sorry but you will have to suffer through austerity. We have spent a considerable amount of money.
French citizens: what did we spend the money on?
French Monarchy: helping the American become free from the rule of their king!
French citizens: wait…. You can do that?
French Monarchy: ……
At least they got revenge on the Brits, right?
They did it to spite the British and then it happened to them
Yes yes we may be bankrupt and on the verge of revolutionary collapse but have you considered fuck Britain?
None of the comments are saying it so I guess I will: the monarchy of France is who helped the US win it’s independence and it wasn’t motivated by some belief in freedom, it’s because France and England were deep into a centuries long rivalry at that point and losing the colonies would hurt England. Why would the Americans help revolutionaries who just cut the head off of the king that helped win their independence?
TLDR if you think a historic event was motivated by high-minded morality, you’re overlooking the profit incentive.
Le 11 janvier on mangent de la tête de veau pour fêter l’événement.
Pour la sauce, monté une mayonnaise avec beaucoup de moutarde, et ajoutez cerfeuil, persil et oeuf dur, le tout finnement ciselée. N’hésitez pas à ajouter du vinaigre de cidre pour finaliser le goût.
Most of the “American independence war” was not fought in North America though. It was a fight to reduce British power basically everywhere.