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Originally Posted by ctyri
The French lacking will to fight is one of the great unfounded myths in American lore, ranking right up there with the Founding Fathers were good Christians seeking liberty for all people.
In WW1, the French suffered more military deaths in 4 years than the US has in its entire history, and inflicted great losses on Germans holding the Western front. They weren't so keen on repeating the feat 20 years later in what surely would have meant destruction of Paris and it's great cities and populations. Easy to cast stones when the US's great civilian scare of the two world wars was an alleged bomb from a balloon in the middle of nowhere or the loss of a hundred people on a cruise ship likely carrying contraband.
Ahhh yesss, world war 1, where the great powers of europe led horses and the masses into machine gun fire with zero regard for human life. It is pretty brave to charge with bayonets in this uniform without metal helmets:
Horribly ****ing stupid of course, but they only took the whole war to adjust and never actually forced the germans off their land before the treaty.