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Originally Posted by Crawford
Not really. They were an island, massively supplied by U.S., facing a distracted attacking enemy that was fighting on three or four fronts.
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The fact that they are an island only helped them back to the Napoleonic wars when France was ruling Europe.
They acted as cynical cowards at that time indeed. The Germans, the Austrians and the Russians who were facing France's Grande Armée eventually called the English a bunch of cowards hidden on their island while they were humiliated by emperor Napoléon.
But obviously, WWII was something 150 years later and very different. Ideologies at stake were not the same at all. France was basically defending the Republican ideals in the early 19th century.
In fact, the English were brave and very smart on the occasion of WWII. It's not an easy thing for a Frenchman to admit, because we were defeated in May/June of 1940 while everybody in the world thought we were invincible and my grandpa who was a captain in the army had to spend almost 5 years in a prison in Germany.
We're not going to discuss this whole thing here. Just speak the truth.
"Mauvaise foi" (literally bad faith or lying) is not appreciated here.
Don't do it.