Oh now they're saying they want to be on America's side? WTF? French foreign policy for decades has been "find out what the Americans are doing and take the other side." I know a lot of people like to rip Americans for being anti-French but there are solid reasons for it. French are just plain ungrateful assholes.
"The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war."
France hates that they never got a chance to be the dominant global power, it has instilled a petulant national character on what power they do wield. Which is why they do such fucked up shit to Haiti, Sierra Leone and many others.
My aunt married a Frenchman and so I've got some extended family over there. There is no anti-American culture in France. The whole America/France rivalry is entirely contrived. Its the same as the California/Texas rivalry or the Ohio/Michigan rivalry. Totally just a product of news media being messy bitches and politicians looking for a bone to pick.
The thing that urks Americans to no end about the French is that France doesn't consistently buckle under to whatever the US foreign policy happens to be. That's been true since De Gaulle at least. It flared up again during the Iraq War, when French capital (unlike the English) rejected the US entreaty to make war because they had too much invested in the Middle East. We're seeing it again, here, with Macron trying to calm the raging bull of American militarism in the face of a prospective prosperity boom lead by China.
But that politics has nothing to do with the general cultural exchanges between the US and France, which have been overwhelmingly friendly for literally centuries.
Get fucked France.
Oh now they're saying they want to be on America's side? WTF? French foreign policy for decades has been "find out what the Americans are doing and take the other side." I know a lot of people like to rip Americans for being anti-French but there are solid reasons for it. French are just plain ungrateful assholes.
"The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war."
-- Will Rogers, 1932
I feel personally attacked.
France hates that they never got a chance to be the dominant global power, it has instilled a petulant national character on what power they do wield. Which is why they do such fucked up shit to Haiti, Sierra Leone and many others.
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I think he's triangulating between the US and China, because he doesn't want France to get crushed when the two come to blows.
Ungrateful? Sure. But not to the Americans.
My aunt married a Frenchman and so I've got some extended family over there. There is no anti-American culture in France. The whole America/France rivalry is entirely contrived. Its the same as the California/Texas rivalry or the Ohio/Michigan rivalry. Totally just a product of news media being messy bitches and politicians looking for a bone to pick.
The thing that urks Americans to no end about the French is that France doesn't consistently buckle under to whatever the US foreign policy happens to be. That's been true since De Gaulle at least. It flared up again during the Iraq War, when French capital (unlike the English) rejected the US entreaty to make war because they had too much invested in the Middle East. We're seeing it again, here, with Macron trying to calm the raging bull of American militarism in the face of a prospective prosperity boom lead by China.
But that politics has nothing to do with the general cultural exchanges between the US and France, which have been overwhelmingly friendly for literally centuries.
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lmao, why is this yankee oorah bullshit upvoted?
show yourselves so i can bully you you fucking losers