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What lead to the total embarrassment of France in 1940?
Christian Powell
Grayson Young
Krauts.
Charles Carter
Of course, but why was it any different than WW1? Was it really only because muh Blitzkrieg or were the French just completely buck broken and demoralised from WW1?
Kayden Diaz
french are subhuman
Logan Edwards
got depressed and socialist and neglected to make viable defensive plans that would take new technologies into account
Eli James
Commies disarming us between the war and cutting money from the army as they feared it might try a coup, mostly.
Also, antiquated doctrines, the Brits cowardly fleeing, and the Belgians refusing we build a wall around them, or to allow us to build in their country.
Gabriel Anderson
>Commies disarming us between the war and cutting money from the army as they feared it might try a coup, mostly.
You had the largest army in Europe at that time.
Wyatt Brown
Doesn't matter being large when you have no radios, not enough modern fighters and bombers, antiquated tanks for the most part (not enough b1s and s35s, most of our tanks were 2 man crewed trash) and you are demoralized by the commie gvt that suppressed the idea of nation and the concept of religion, while you are recovering from the massacre that was ww1.
Jonathan Roberts
>and the Belgians refusing we build a wall around them, or to allow us to build in their country.
Kek, what a bitch move, why did you guys even ask them permission?
Caleb Jackson
>You had the largest army in Europe at that time.
True, but a lot of them were foreign mercenaries, and as Francois put it well:
>Commies disarming us between the war
>the Brits cowardly fleeing
>Also, antiquated doctrines
Christian Price
They had an innate nazi ideology and wanted so bad to join the cause, they just couldn't show it in front of their allies.
Anthony Young
Belgian autism (trying to remain neutral and pulling out from the french defensive treaty) and the Germans successfully gambling on a 1 in a million shot (rushing through the Ardennes with armor, undetected and unopposed).
Jaxon Hall
You have to say that it was the last time france returned to be real france.
After that french fucked their country up completely.
Liam Edwards
How did the AVSTRIAN Chancellor become so bold to attack France?
Brody Long
>Socialist government was more afraid of a military coup than Germany, significantly slowing modernization
>Tanks couldn't into operational mobility
>Didn't extend the Maginot to the Benelaux for retarded diplomatic reasons
David Richardson
Mostly due to their reliance.on the marginot line. They thought it was undefeateable defense. France's military was mostly foreign legionaires, or rather niggers and arabs. They spent all their efforts in diplomacy with niggers and arabs and look how their allience worked out when france was invaded. They all fled. The british. The arabs. The niggers. None stayed to fight once the defense line collapsed. The french felt since they had overwhelming numbers from their alliances they could push germans around. In the end turned out their leaders were jews and hitler was a jew and the while point was to steer europeans into killing each other while jews infiltrated all governments deeper in order to begin stealing nations out from under the residents.
Jace Cook
>Belgian autism
Same thing that brought the EU upon us.
Oliver Ortiz
The real question is (((why))) didn't they invade from the west? They had the power to do so but just sat there, waiting after declaring war.
The war could have been ended before 1940 began.
Cooper Wood
If i recall, it's because their government was wildly unpopular and the army was strongly against it. As such, when time came to fight back they decided against fighting, not unlike what happened to the Afghan army the second the US pulled out. The military won't throw their lives away if legitimacy of the government isn't established. The Maginot line fiasco was the final morale blow on top of that.
Nicholas Perry
I though France was in the middle of a semi-civil war, and neither side wanted to fight the krauts and let the other side win. Ia there any truth to this?
Noah Parker
We did and they refused because they didn't want to be a part of the conflict and be neutral but they also didn't want to be defenceless in case Germany attacked. So the only way was forcing us to defend them without actually having troops or forts there built by us before the war. Because of that when the Germans attacked we sent all of our tanks and elite troops here and managed to stop the Germans.
Except that was their plan all along and they encircled our troops by going through the Ardennes, leaving France itself undefended.
When that happened the English decided to pull back and we had to surrender.
There were no mercenaries, I assume you mean the French foreign legion. They were deployed mostly in the colonies but for those who were on the mainland they fought very well. if you mean our colonial troops of conscripted nogs they varied from quite decent to quite catastrophic but overall we didn't have that many of them on the mainland anyway.
Luis Rivera
Basically what said. Plus our army hadn't recovered from the affair of the cards: freemasons decided to ruin the career of all the catholic officers before WW1 to promote their shitty puppets instead.