They were also the ones that brought USA into Vietnam in the 1950s…
It’s an American thing that has slightly spilled out to the UK through popular media.
France has a strong track record post WW2 of consistently standing up to the USA’s wars abroad; they were one of the first to kick US nuclear bases out of their own country during the Cold War, and were their biggest Western opponent at the UN regarding the second Iraq war. Hence the continued popularity of the “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” trope in American media.
ICastFist@programming.dev 5 days ago
jdr@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Never mind the 900 years of constant wars
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
“You see king philipe, we have a very lucrative wine trade in gascony and the flemish like us and we like their cloth industry. You know…thinking about, my mother was the last of the house of capet. Wouldnt that make…king of france?” - Edward III probably
skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Anyone in the 21st century claiming to still be sore over the Napoleonic Wars or anything pre-dating them maybe shouldn’t be taken seriously