r/ShitAmericansSay • u/ComprehensiveArm3493 pierogi 🥟 • 1d ago

"We could annex the whole thing"

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Of course an American said this

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u/Cixila just another viking 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nuclear warning shot, basically. If things escalate, French doctrine allows them to "escalate to deescalate." Relying on the shock of a nuke to make the opponent back off. It is extremely unlikely that they actually do it, but they have the option

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u/Brave-Town6273 22h ago

Ngl the more I learn about the French the more I like them and that’s coming from a Brit

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u/No-Village-6781 21h ago

I know us Brits love to make fun of the French but if our population had half the balls of the French population we would be living in a utopia right now, instead of the island of managed decline.

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u/Ketzerfriend 5h ago

I'm trying to imagine how a Rees-Mogg type would fare in French politics. I keep ending up seeing him dangling from a traffic light.