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  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Of all the major countries? Probably Italy. Idk why France gets the surrender stereotype when Italy's military history has been more of a joke. From my region? Honduras, easily. They love trying to usurp us as the top dog of Central America and get put in their place every time.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah I mean France was pretty much the strongest army in all of Europe for like 1,000 years.

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      It's because of their decision to not participate in the Iraq War. The joke existed beforehand, but it got massively amplified by that.

    • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Idk why France gets the surrender stereotype

      because americans get their knowledge of history from cartoons, and everything yankees say is projection

      • BeamBrain [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Imagine how Americans would react if America had gone through what France did in WWI and likewise prevailed, only to be the butt of endless surrender jokes

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Say what you want, but I'd gladly have Italians in my army.

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      More specifically, in the field kitchens. :AyyyyyOC:

      • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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        2 years ago

        They're all just gonna defect once you tell them they gotta use normal cheese that isn't produced artisanaly in a single province of Sicily by one of 3 dairies approved by decree to produce it since generations past.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I remember watching a break down of different country's military MREs and some of the european ones looked really good. I think the french got little sachets of wine and the italians had real cheese and meat.

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        24 days ago

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    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      2 years ago

      WW2 was a pretty brutal defeat and after that they lost several colonial holdings and had the US take over for them in Vietnam, which probably to some extent fuels American superiority complexes, then their refusal to go along with the Iraq invasion sparked a coordinated cultural attack on France in the US, freedom fries, mass wine spillings, etc etc.

    • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      i mean can you really blame the italians?

      they were fighting for Italy

      im half joking because the italian partisans were far more effective because they were not fighting for "Italy"