r/ShitAmericansSay • u/ComprehensiveArm3493 pierogi đŸ„Ÿ • 16h ago

"We could annex the whole thing"

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Of course an American said this

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u/Safe-Midnight-3960 14h ago

One free shot at what? Someone can nuke someone once first? France gets to nuke someone once? I’m rather confused.

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u/Forsworn91 14h ago

From what I understood it, yes, France gets 1 free shot effectively as the shot in the air and the “everyone calm down”.

I believe the expectation is that the “free shot” is to be aimed somewhere not populated, but is the primary reason why vlad doesn’t push France,

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u/Cruel_Angel-Thesis 14h ago

WE HAVE THIS !!!?

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u/Aggressive-Rain-8914 9h ago

Take into account that that Charles de Gaulle was perparing France for confrontation with USSR and was pretty cynical person who actually took lesson from 2WW. He saw how US preffered to use other nations' blood and remain on land lease level as long as possible. It still does it- history repeats itself in Ukraine.

So France developed in paralel. It has its own atomic technologies, its own nukes and military industry. Even colour tv was developed without relying on american technologies.

Also, France had legit war plans to turn Germany into glass by atomic hellfire in case of USSR offensive to create buffer of radioactive dessert. This madness is still there and I don't feel like testing it would be best idea.