Did France Really Only Surrender? (History Review) 

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Alex The Rambler! No

Weird flex but ok

Flex tape

We all know it's not the first bum ever that ever surrendered to you

Welp, to Cali!

Yes, thank you, someone finally said it.

The french plan to defend against the axis was good but nowhere near bulletproof. Saying that the assault through the Ardennes forest was a gamble does not disqualify it from being a successful military operation of great strategic value. The main thing that led to France's downfall even before the war began is that it failed to modernize and to adapt. Yes, they had better tanks than Germany, more men than them but as the first year of Barbarossa taught us, it's not about the numbers, but how you use them. France failed to make their tanks useful. They still used tanks as infantry support behind trenches and thus they were very unreliable in close combat and very slow. Germany didn't win in France because they walked into an empty forest, they won because they brought innovations, decisive tactics not seen before, totally new to the allied command so the allies found themselves in a situation where no solution in was sight.

Yea was it not meant to be a great natural defence?

@@JesusChrist-bx8ge No, it was a forest, a fucking forest. It wasn't like it was an insurmountable mountain or shit like that, it was a forest which even if small and fast tanks wouldn't magically be able to penetrate, you still have motorized infantry which would be even deadlier or even plain infantry would give the french guarding the forest a run for their money. Having a minimal defence on your flanks is inexcusable. They knew what type of warfare the germans were using as they watched very carefully how Poland got destroyed and yet they did little to no effort to prepare for such a war. They were convinced that the germans would fight as they did decades ago in the First World War which was downright stupid. Not to mention that the germans successfully entered France through the Ardennes in the early stages of the WW1. It was a huge misplay by the french fighting like in the past. Wars are not won by repeating the strategies you once used, but by creating new ones.

@@thiccpazuzu2573 The French command was very convinced that Germany would never again be strong enough to threaten France, and that trenches and forts would be enough to stop the German army if it invaded France. Even after the invasion of Poland (which they had promised to protect, invading Germany) they did not change their plans. If the French had heard de Gaulle, the situation would be quite different. Well, glad they did not hear it, otherwise we would not have memes.

UK: *triggered*

yeah france you did and thats why the world is fucked up full of war and terrrorism.

@@hyenalaughingmatter8103 Incredible, every words you just said is false

Of I forgot 2019 was a record since 1970 with 41 massive killings and 211 dead. Since the president is Donald Trump there is more massive shootings in ur country and more conflict between country like Iran, Russia, China...

@@woulaiverine8417 Incredible, every word YOU said is false.

I agree

French resistance was actually useless almost the entire war until they were actually organised my the British to help with the Normandy landings.

@@jdawg7374 that's not true

@@jdawg7374 english influenced by french language so much people are questioning *if* english is even a germanic language. I even call that a win.

Yeah Ik as an American I thank the French

I thought of the same thing, I don't any see any jokes about France surrendering before the whole Iraq thing

I'm french and none of my friends nor myself do that... that's kinda fucked up dude were do you live?

@@gastonjaillet9512 Moscow. Lol

Last time I check it started during the Vietnam war when the U.S. was pissed when the French quit and left Indochina to the communists.

​@Riff Raff Yeah the Frenchbashing in US definitely comes from several French decisions to not back the US on certain diplomatic matters, and we can't say they were wrong (Vietnam, Iraq, Syria...). I feel bad for the French, it's unfair. They've the best victory/defeat ratio in the world, and their military history is glorious. Charlemagne, Philip Augustus, Louis XIV, Napoleon etc are among the best leaders of their time

Talent confirmed

France : qui est le suivant ?

Do you know how Italy was bad with Mussolini ? x)

A Staler Do you know that is fake? Lmao Is ONLY in the french wikipedia lol

Grand BaleK Is fake lmao and why is it only in the french wikipedia? Lol

Bonjour 🤗

Greetings to Polish from France!

Greetings my brother, even though there are tensions between our government we french love the polish people

GREETINGS POLISH BROTHER!! Let's have a toast to our glorious and historic friendship !! NA ZDROWIE !! SANTÉ !!!

You both belong in the loser column of world war 2

Salutations cousin et merci!

Tu parles vraiment bien français, je te tire mon chapeau :)

nos gouvernement ont des tension, mais quoi qu'il arrive, vous etes nos frère latin, de culture et de sang :)

Salutations.

J'espère que le revers italien au rugby n'entachera pas nos relations 😉

they mainly do that because this is during el alamein where the german troops were practically running on fumes at this point. the only reason they kept getting away with this shit was the fact the british/allies kept fucking shit up. which ironically wouldnt stop any time soon, and only got away with this shit by the skin of their teeth.

@@Thekilleroftanks 3723 French against 37 000 Germans & Italians, French were on foot Germans had tanks and air support. Even on fumes they had the advantage...

So as Montecassino + France invasion from the south

And please don't forget the heroic résistance at Dunkerque, when 30 000 french exhausted soldiers held on around 150 000 germans forces (tanks and stuka) during several days, while british troops where moving up to England

@@louiscasteran6298 Yea, even professional historians tend to forget that if the French 1st Army wasn't holding the Germans at bay, there would have been no evacuation.

Zakk Davies to be completely fair, we mostly did it to spit the Brit. Totally worth it :P

Ahah

To be fair, France being bankrupt has many causes. The American revolution is only a minor factor. But Americano-centrists like to believe that the French revolution is a direct consequence of the American revolution, while the French revolution has many causes, and some of them much more obvious than the American revolution.

True except those fries! They're ours! We Belgians claim the fries!!!

the best thing is that the "french fries" aren't french at all, they are from Belgium XD

@@Ebilcake First of all this video is about history and not only about the 75 last year because i don't know if you heard anything about it but their were history before USA(i know it sounds crazy but it is just a fact) Secondly the French plan during WW2 was based ressources (that Germany as non except coal)and on a long-term victory because we knew that they would come from Belgium so we made an alliance with them the Maginot line was only to force Germany to go through Belgium but this country got scared of Germany and broke the alliance so YES our all plan fell BUT it wasn't our fault that Belgium is scared too easily and as no long-term plan the only thing that threw French strategy to the carbage is it willingness to not let Belgium alone against the German

Americans: France only surrenders French : dude we almost conquered the whole World twice and made you manifest you freedom by literaly destroying our own economy and country....

​@@darvasse Shocky is a troll. You should not waste time and good arguments on him, he might simply not get it.

"only surrender" "most battle victory of the world" Both are nonsense. It does not matter how many fights you have won, what counts are the wars and their results. For example, Napolen has won countless battles but has lost two wars. France has won one significant major war throughout history, the Hundred Years War, everything else has more or less balanced itself out. The US Americans, however, were particularly successful, they could hold and incorporate their entire colonial empire. The former great power Austria was particularly unsuccessful.

Shocky As a Brit, we could only evacuate our troops from Dunkirk due to the last stand of the French army (and some of the British army but that’s not the point)

Well, yes and no. The French just didn't think motorised vehicles would be able to get through the Ardennes fast enough. Even if they had put their troops in position in time, they still wouldn't have covered the ardennes more than the already present inexperienced and outnumbered troops. They should have extended the maginot line up to the Meuse, but figured the ardennes was good enough to slow the Germans down untill reinforcements arrive. Don't get me wrong the Belgians becoming neutral messed the plans somewhat up, but in the end it wasn't the main reason why the Maginot line was "useless" in WW2

yeah, the main Reason was the Gamelin's incompetence@@MDP1702

The French planned to continue the Maginot line to the coast, however, the Belgian government was uncomfortable with this and due to pressure from the Belgian And British governments the French were forced to stop at the Ardennes. Prior to the war, there have been reports about the vulnerablility of the forest which was discovered during exercises that were conducted by the French. However, these discoveries were tossed out by the higher ups.

The French did actually occupy belgium in 1939. And that's why they lost. In early may, when the German Army reach the city of Sedan, lightly defended (mostly with some reserve units, and disarmed bunker) all the elite french division were already in the north, near liege, to support belgian lines. The first engagement in French territory is a tank battle, opposing about 50 french tanks to an entire German division, and the tanks won. But the Maurice Gamelin (in charge of the french high comand) didn't think it was the main german attack. So he ordered the northern motorized, armored, and elite divisions to keep their position, and defend the belgian border. The next day, the german start their attack on Sedan and Gamelin realized he was wrong, so he asked his main forces near liege to withdraw and join Sedan as fast as possible to support the defense. Meanwhile, he asked the defenders of Sedan to hold the line for two days, so that reinforcements can arrive. Unfortunately, the german army launch their assault, and bombard the bunkers of the french defense line. Everybody panics, and they fall back. Funny thing : everybody panicked because they were using phones to communicate, and no radios. And when the luftwaffe launch their bombardment, they didn't kill that many french soldiers, but some lucky hits cut the underground phones lines which permited communications between french units. So the unexperienced and unwilling French Soldiers (everybody had in mind the carnage of WW I in France), cut from their high comand, panicked, withdraw, and Sedan fall. After that, it is the military genius of Rommel and Guderian, some drugs and a lot of coffee that allowed the german to reach Dunkirk in a few weeks.

Actually, the Maginot Line did work ! Italy tried to invade France during WWII, but never got past the Line. However, Germany managed to get through the Ardennes, wich was considered as a natural barrier, since during WWI Germany never could get motorized vehicles through it.

and with that amazing score it was occupied several times...

luis marques but occupied the world twice time !

@@JFIN-fk7hu what world? Not the portuguese empire nor the spanish...

@@luismarques9280 Ummmm you forget glory puts u in history as great but great victories dont the french soldiers fought bravely in ww2 but no one looks at that

@@ritaDas-xl4kz They did

Every time they go bankrupt drew takes 2 shots

every american colony they lose drew takes 2 shots

Basically drews body will be irrecognizable

And everytime they discover something then name it a catholic name drew drink a glass full of red wine in one shot

Are you promoting coma drinking?

Oh criss que oui! Anglo speaker dont like us because we speak french

Je me souviens

@@alexandreguyot8507 moi aussi

Yes, despite the fact that people in Quebec speak a different French and all that they totally preserved French culture by making every product ever have instructions or words written in both French and English and help ruin the economy of Canada for no reason whatsoever.

Canadian Entity they quite speak the same language of the north of France... They speak French with another accent than the Parisian one as the rest of France ^^

Germany: omi wau shinderu France: NANI!?

Belgium:*exists Germany:it’s free real estate

I mean, after WW1 it was VERY personal if you think about it.

@@SimoLInk1698 You're right. But I thought about it and realized that France was the one that did it personal in the first place. At the beginning of WW1 they were still mad for the Franco-Prussian war, and that was one of the reasons for the extreme demands on the Treaty of Versailles at France's side. Hate leads to more hate, I guess.

Germany: *You're gonna have a bad time* France: *Surrenders* GAME OVER

MeatusBeatus Eh, you guys were fucked anyway. France had a big army that matched Germany’s in terms of tank size and quality. It just that they sucked at using them and were isolated and destroyed easily by German combined arms.

are you comparing a literal superpower to denmark

Genghis Khan damn you right

V4 Enthusiast the French army in 39 was under equipped and not that big since France started to demilitarised itself after WW1 The only place where the French could compete with the Germans were the tanks but some stupid French generals didn’t listen to De Gaulle and said that « tank are useless » basically and not a lot were produced .

Can't say i blame the memes. Even Norway survived longer than France.

Dieu a créé la France, et il a vu que c'était le plus beau pays du monde. Alors pour pas que les autres soient jaloux, il a créé les français. - blague belge

lazyshoggy Et je suis tout à fait d’accord ahah

@@lazyshoggy en tant que français j'approuve... hélas lol

"In Britain, we are free to form our own opinions" -me

@@lazyshoggy heuuuu

French are famous for their bravery of the battlefield. Second only to perhaps Sparta. Paris however is famous for producing the most incompetent, slimy deceitful rulers to lead the bravest souls. Perhaps you can explain that one to me. And yes, we english have ran away from fights for hundreds of years. We like to call it "tactical withdrawal" and the fighting on foreign soil excuse. It is impressive how much of french success was purely down to the common man. I think our countries' achievements speak for themselves though.

hahah shut up and surender germans fucked you in ww2

@@mihajloautist6328 Omg I never thought I would meet such an ignorant person.

@@mandowarrior123 America has entered the chat

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That not 4000...we only do 3756 revolution per minutes

Wrong 3756/min everybody know that!

Actually it's called a strike. But yeah I get what you mean.

😂😂

No it's only 3756 revolutions per minutes

Actually, it's Franklin who said that I'm pretty sure, but the quote still is the same.

Actually, this is a paraphrase of some sort because Jefferson wrote this in his autobiography 'ask the traveled inhabitant of any nation, In what country on earth would you rather live?-certainly in my own. where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest & sweetest affections and recollections of my life.-Which would be your second choice? France!'. The quote you wrote is however present Henri de Bornier's play 'La Fille de Roland', from 1875.

France and France *bruh*

So when we're French, our countries are France and... *France ?*

@@kiyomi_kamimoto Yes

He is jeff

@@gauthierlechevalier1379 yeya

Jeff bonaparte

@@ari3903 emperor Jeff, leader of kingdom of Jeffia, Hirohito was my desk m8, Mussolini was my jail m8...

DIS IS GENIUS

And then was turned into another empire before becoming a republic again in 1870. They sure do love their revolutions in France.

@@adamklaits6379 vive la France mon ami. Nous serons toujours insoumis ✊✊

On aime bien les révolutions en France. Petite proposition de loi qui pourrait être cool: Pour que les présidents ne fassent pas de la merde, il faudrait qu'à chaque fin de mandat on fasse un référendum pour décider si le président a été bon et si - de 50% le trouve bien alors on le guillotine.

@@Elta305 Alors. Dans beaucoup de pays, même si c'est extrême pourquoi pas. Mais en France, on connaît déjà le résultat en fait, plus personne ne se présentera..

@@maloflory Pas plus mal. Ca écartera les banquiers et les profiteurs pour laisser la place à ceux qui veulent vraiment améliorer la France

Except against the germans in WWI. russia really fricked up there.

also Mongolia

@@themark2medic216 Germany lost to Russia in ww2 and Poland inevitably did too

Coughs in Mongols

@@themark2medic216 That is wrong. WW2-Germany could have never won the war they started.

J'me permet de faire un copié collé de ce pertinent message :)

@@Un_mur_porteur Mais je t'en prie aucun soucis mon ami. ;)

Merci enfin quelqu'un qui n'est pas inculte ;)

@@modern_historiesonig9071 C'est rare de nos jours n'est ce pas? XD

@@LOeuffy en effet, j'ai l'impression que le monde régresse, nous aussi d'ailleurs pendant un moment ont était intelligents et cultivées et maintenant cela va dans l'autre sens c'est triste, heureusement comme dirait René Goscinny il reste, heureusement d'ailleurs ces irréductibles gaulois 😂😂😂

as balas eram feitas de croassaint, sei lá como se fala isso

Yes they used stale baguettes as bayonets during WW1 and WW2

I am french and i can confirm

did france make the tgv

@@JoMiMi_h no that was Japan

French Revolution was the best thing that happened to the world so boi you R wrong

@@godhelix6667 As a proud frenchman I can asssure you it was the worst thing that happened to this country We just bartered a just kingdom for a tyrannical republic

@@lovegood300 If you were that proud you shoud see how with the revolution which made the french people richer have more liberty, more equality and more fraternity and how the 1st republic was "tyrannical" and how the last kingdom was just ? There were 3 groups of people with differents rights and the "Noble" group had what we call "privilèges" which gave them more rights. So it is not "Just" as you say.

@@godhelix6667 You don't know what you're talking about, since the revolution my country didn't stop to decline. Going crisis after crisis, losing any feel of national pride and faith ( the republic did everything to kick out catholicism out of France ). The truth is that since the very beginning of the republics the people became more and more unhappy and you see it today with the yellow jackets. Those protests are a sign that our government became more and more distant to us and do not care at all for the french. And do not dare to talk about any "freedom of speech and thinking" in this country nowadays you're allowed to think freely since your opinion does not diverge too much from the actual ideology in place at the government. I will repeat it again, in times of kings France was a prosperous and proud nation, until the beginning of the so called "enlightnement".

@@godhelix6667 Frenchman here. What he's trying to say is according to history, French did better as a monarchy than as a democracy. You must also have in mind than France is surrounded by representative monarchies like the UK, Spain, Belgium... Basically democracies which saved their king. French killed their monarch. So there's some kind of fantasy thinking going on here, like "what if"

Eltaris India: England you just ripped your own language

@@user-IL1EL??dude tf u talking about begger

I think you have that backwards.

England nowadays would destroy France

Lol France is the world's 5 military and one of U.S best friend

Exactly. Yet in the movie made by Nolan, they are represented either as assholes who didn’t hesitate to fire on British as they were, apparently, bad skilled soldiers, or as cowards trying to fly away from their country. That movie is the perfect example of what « rewriting history » means (thanks to the tactical genius of Churchill). Dunkirk was a retreat, a defeat, the British army who was running away, while the French army was still fighting to help them going back to England, knowing they had already lost. So basically, fact is French soldiers fought when everything was already lost, yet THEY are the cowards. While the British were doing everything to sail away from the fight, yet THEY are the brave. Truth is, none were cowards, this was just an ugly defeat that resulted from a poor strategy (the Maginot Line).

Cyrus Finally someone mention this..

British have the art of making a defeat ....a glorious victory ! @@cyrus7805

actually the only allied infantry fighting dunkrik battle was french, everyone else had fully surrendered or went "insert monthy pyton run away joke" mode

the polish fighted in France @@Martel_Clips

But pizza and pasta are an important part of the italian culture How many french surrender do you know ?

At least pizza and pasta memes are not offensive. I'm French, I can take bread, wine and snails (never eaten snails or frogs anyway) jokes everyday. But I just can't stand the disrespect for the soldiers in the surrender memes. I guess it's the same for switching sides shitty military jokes for Italy.

I got the joke. Realistically, the US did the right thing. In the condition they are in (poor, crazy revolts, and everyone a bit pensive after the ratification of the Constitution) they have no chance against the British after merely a decade after the Revolution. It hurts America to abandon them though...

Then US helped us in return during ww1 and ww2 so I forgive them :3

@@niko68680 of course they did no state ever od things because they have a good heart and they like to help peaple I am not that naïve but they kinda helped us

the suite, during the second independance war in America, the USA were saved by an french pirat name lafit

@@godhelix6667 annnnnd now we are surrenders for americans..... Frenchmen are kings of auto-derision

Why not Merkel?

Why not Zoidberg?

Why not the famous painter and moustache man, Mr. H?

Nha... dress like August von Mackensen with that rad hat!

Dress up like Ted Bundy.

In fact, we (the Frenchs) are one of the causes that lead to the US Vietnam war.... 😅

@@alexandrevidal5203 Yes, you Frenchmen failed to defeat the Vietcong, and then left for the Americans. The post-occupation French Army is not an example of success.

americans tend to forget the world consists of more than america :P

Kaiser Wilhelm II you Americans failed to defeat the Vietcong and North Vietnamese army The American invasion of Vietnam was not an example of success

avtomat kalashnikova Commie swine did you call the Kaiser an A M E R I C A N ?

If French had won this battle, the French Empire during more ...

@@nono5114 oui.

Börk that include naval battles? Britain won most of those

@@Tom-2142 yes it count navals battles.

Börk well Britain won most naval battles against France.

False, France fought in total approximately 1200 battles,raids and sieges, 700 being victories, 400 being defeats and 100 being 'inconclusive'. Source:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_involving_France

But they were the nation that won most wars, so ...

TheSaltyEdy source : Wikipedia . Ok you can stop there

that was the kingdom not the repulic of france

@@florian6816 Meh, Wikipedia is not the most trustable source however it's better than nothing. I don't see him providing a source whatsoever which makes his entire statement invalid. Mine on the other hand, although suspicious, has somewhat of a foundation on which it stands.

French is 2nd, not so far from English. They're both the official languages for the J.O.'s and French is the official language of the U.N. But your theory's still valid :p

It's from the french bashing

Britain found France

French was regarded as the most cultured nation by many other countries, including Prussia. Frederick the Great allowed only French to be spoken at his court. Which explains why the highest Prussian military medal was called the "Pour le mérite." And his private little palace was named "Sans Soucis." Even at the height of the British empire, British wealthy families gave their kids a French education. Compare the 'most beautiful English palaces' with the French palaces like Versailles. French wines were and are renowned the world over. The British drank gin and tonic (or port, which tastes like wine with sugar added).

Well nice theory, the truth is just that France refused to come with the US to Iraq in 2003 and they got triggered too much

Stonne battle

True, 9 French against 3000 Italians. => French Victory

it's the battle of Al Haleim

@@Mitaka.Kotsuka only for ignorant people like you

@@MrEviLow Leave this kiddo, he don't even know which country has won the most battles in history and has the best ratio in it.. 😏

@@Mitaka.Kotsuka Nah bro we're not going to declare war to any country cuz we're already busy with our revolution, but you know, not all peoples can be badass enough to declare war to it's own governement ;)

@@yes571 Welll, actually is pretty rare to see a country to need two revolutions... but i cede on you for that.... its needed some guts to declare the war on your own gov. contrary on what you may think, declaring this war and wining may possible vanish all that fame actually, you can say at the end "we defeated the entire europe union"

@@MrEviLow you are right, but... it can be a decent assambley of countries whom defeated france in wars and you wonder... im from one of these countries, lets start counting... Brits, Germans (two times) Italians, Spanish, Mexicans....

So you want him to do one on South Korea

Awesome Grant *West Korea

North Korea Best Korea!

Space Korea is the best!

Japan = best Korea

Ikr xd.

it was quite a large screw up though

@@raf4933 No, because of the Résistance 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♀️ 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♀️ Watch the video first, you..

I mean the way the screwed up was massive in just six weeks. Germany on the hand fought four years in WW1 before surrendering because they exhausted themselvea, while fought to the death in WW2. Germany lost bad, but nowhere near embarrassing as the French.

@@solarfreak1107 German lover.

That is why it is so frustrating france surrendered so easily. We expected great things. Weak french government is what it is.

tfw you gradually keep beating up the french through your invention of irregular warfare and almost made the french drain and waste around 300,000 soldiers within your region, made the emperor himself coin the prolonged war an ulcer and completely made him regret his decisions but everyone just keeps pointing at the russian campaign as napoleon's decline of power *sad guerrilla noises*

@@manperson5315 I know peninsular war is firgotten

@@manperson5315 and that is why you don't fight major fronts thousands of kilometers apart

@@steamstrategy7670 «All the circumstances of my disasters are linked to this fatal knot; the war in Spain destroyed my reputation in Europe, entangled my difficulties, and opened a school for English soldiers. It was I who trained the British Army on the Peninsula » Napoleon Bonaparte.

Ahh, hate to be pedantic, but strictly napoleon operated as a field marshal. Plus, ghengis khan would supposedly ride in his sleep so he could be everywhere. He certainly led more than 52 battles. And sun tsu would say a great general wouldn't fight on multiple fronts xD.

Americans don’t like the taste of blood... they like the taste and smell of O I L. They did a lot of wars for it (Iraq, Afghanistan)... and they criticize colonial empires, but they put dictators to power in certains countries behind the people’s back, so...

@@mandowarrior123 A lot of Ghengis Khan' battles was in fact victories of his sons. Ghengis gave them many commands to his army especially in the West.

Wait so England is born in 881 ?

@@plumebrisee6206 No 1066

He was ironic

all country occupied create a form of resistance. the french one is probably more known because of girls

you've had your Sabaton song bud' ;^)

@@scarletcrusade8729 Poland had the largest resistance and the first resistance. They also had many women fighting

@@alalawenska1642 Of course! Polish people are brave and courageous there's no debate on this. It's more related to american's propaganda : everything they touched has been mystify in order to serve their agenda of world domination. And since France was "liberated" by the American there's a tendency to exagarate the reality. I believe if there's so little insentive to promote the Polish resistance is because in the mind of the endocrinated Americans they're still seen as communists due to the Cold War. It's only my opinion tho i can be wrong.

that s the problem when people learn accross video games or discovery channel..

I AM THE SENATE

Also under Louis XIV, France already fought and won against all of europe united during the war of the Augsburg league. :)

@@tonyhawk94 if I remember correctly France also had lost the War for Spanish Inheritance, didn't it?

@@lizardperson9648 No we won the war of Spanish succession and still today the Spanish king is from the French Bourbon family and the French symbol is still in the center of the Spanish flag. ;)

ULM OR RIOT ULM OR RIOT ULM OR RIOT

Ulm or Roit! Ulm or Roit! Ulm or Roit!

ULM OR RIOT ULM OR RIOT

"ILS SONT DANS LES ARBRES"

Why? to see if Kurz Ears will carry him off in the Storm he is seeding? I always new its not good to marry your cousin, but every country got his traditions...

@@vincentbentele2146 I am Austrian myself just wanted him to talk about my Home country

Exactly. And France: All French - surrender.

@@lizardperson9648Have you watched the video, you little kiddo?

well i guess the typical russian strategy didn't work out for them during ww2 and then they decided to go bloodbath with it

Yeah, Russians are so suck at wars, so they built empire lmao Western people never change

SYKA BLYAT

a stable nation

it actually has a quite old history dating back to 5000 years plus

Well, there is a reason it's called the "Graveyard of Empires"

@@perplexingkelp No thats Afghanistan

@@primuspilusfellatus6501 This is a discussion about Afghanistan.

They are still going to make jokes, because the humiliation was so great that it obscured any success predecessor to her.

At the end France win ww1 and ww2 and germany loose both

@@legendvalki3531 ik that

@@legendvalki3531 i mean did france rly win? does a destroyed country counts as winning? ^^ i dont think so

@@legendvalki3531 Uhm no lol

His grandchildren

@@somedude272 Some ok some

Galerith GG Granted, they’ve been around for more then a millennia so it’s not really a fair fight

True

@@habermanmusic dew.

Exactly why you need an education if you're gonna end up like Drew who sucks at HOI4. So go to school if you don't wanna suck at HOI4.

Je reconnaitrais le "HAAAAAANW" du pyro barbar meme en enfer!

On est partout

Hon hon oui oui baguette

Vive la chocolatine !

Évidemment quelqu'un en doutait ?

But that's stupid, fries are not even French

And all this was a BIG mistake You should never invade Irak. French was right !

An eternity of suffering because America couldn't realise it was wrong.

In reallity this concept started in 1945 when the Americans had to recognize France as a winner because of De Gaulle. But USA didn't want and would have preffered divide France. They lost politically against De Gaulle, in the new context of Cold war. The Americans never digested it.

Je sais! Finalement, un peut de vérité sur l'histoire de France 😂

je suis un homme, et toi?

Mon français est merde,mais je peux dis(dire?) "Je me rendre!"

@@redbaron827 Presque ça. (Almost that) Il y a des fautes mais j'ai pu comprendre (There is mistakes but I was able to understand) By the way, I'm French

@@alexandrevidal5203 Yaaay,I'm gonna turn into a baguette,thanks for the encouragement

And the Alaskans would be Soviets.

Technically calafornia broke away from the Mexicans and therefor he would be his own nationality... damn democracy ‘murica

@@discretegalaxy6967 and a new dictator named Drew durnel

@@discretegalaxy6967 California did not break away from France. It was just one very small that "Declared Independence". They would have never won a War of Independence.

@Cesar Castillo I didn’t say that California broke from France they broke from Mexico former Spanish colany

Haha French only surrender 🇫🇷=🏳️

@@Emptyman_1 I'd love to see you saying that face to face to a soldier of the French foreign legion ...

@@icono2823 what is he gonna do?? Kill me

@@Emptyman_1 he could arrest you, maybe.

@@Emptyman_1 No he will remind you of history

From Dust To A Lifeform You guys and your sneaky bomb boats vs the Spanish

also bikes and tulips...

"Hey England. Nice navy you got there. Be a real shame if something happened to it." -- Admiral de Ruyter Sneaky Dutch rearmament schemes, claiming they were just building giant clogs with windmills on top "for the tourists, you know?" But then, ah ha! they were hundred-gun ships of the line all along.

harbl99 >Gets 14 of it’s warships captured... by cavalry en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_the_Dutch_fleet_at_Den_Helder

@@v4enthusiast541 yeah we don't talk about the part of our history where we are obliterated by world powers, only about stealing a piece of a UK ship.

Mexico belongs to the Hapsburgs!

@SampleText WTF

We did that ? A Frenchman

@@Charlie-sr7kc Napoleon III, look It up

Actually the medieval age for switzerland would be basically really along the line of burn everything. The 1800 would be burn Napoléon 1856 would be a loud piss off statement torwards prussia. And ww1-2 would be the Paranoia.

@@nietname2468 I know, but I just though it'd be cool idea, that's all

@@tctlunar3488 it is. As a swiss i also want to see him fail at the names.

@@nietname2468 Pronounce Zürich: *Zoo-rich*

If he does, I expect him to say exactly that 😂

Yes, he didn't mention the guy who ruin his country just for his confort.

AVALONNE652 Actually Versailles was Not that costly, but Louis XIV did many wars and won a lot btw, but these Wars are What really bankrupted France

he only does 10 minutes so he can add ads.

@@joi1794 But he could add more adds if he made the videos longer

@@billysbilbolag2050 if he wanted to he could make 20 ads in a 10min video. making the video longer would be (on his point of view) uneseccary work.

Germany:HSE,Beer, Deustche Qualited, Erika,EU. Japan:Nani, Battle Royale of dudes, Meiji, Shiroyama, Hirohito, a couple of weird american brothers, Manga.

Spain: It's show time!

I am in this too, cause my Country will at least get a shout out, even if only for being a colony.

@@Thundyfish19 Infonesia or Suriname?

Drugland

#weedtifull

@@cippy5450 Indonesia, though as much as I would like Drew to have a history review on Indonesia and maritime SEA as a whole, I think that a history review for the Nederlands is much more likely.

Hey, France doesn't have this kind of image. A bunch of internet clowns have this kind of image :)

They actually did break through your wall and captured Strasbourg, Metz, Mulhouse etc after steamrolling you and the British in Belgium.

1000 subscribers without any videos?? Well they didn’t get Louisiana

Because the ratio in north america was 1 french for 10 englishs..maybe better to say, it took a long time at Brittain, 7 years for beat the frenchs at 10 vs 1..,no?

The overseas gains were more vital for Britain. And it's the beginning of the British hegemony. France was more a continental power to keep its borders. And its aristocracy was declining, hence the Revolution. But over 1000 years, if the British hegemony is more recent, the French one is longer. And it seems today that France would be stronger militarily. France could have declined and have disappeared. But never...

hoi4 doesnt work on my pc

About the Eiffel Tower, rather it wouldn't be standing for other words

@@tctlunar3488 people also seemed to forgot that the French also fought alongside the Allies and did some underground resistance as well. Whatever French troops that escaped to Allied lines as well as French colonial soldiers later returned to France after D-Day and Operation Dragoon. The resistance was also helpful in gathering intel for D-Day as well as sabotaging German logistics up to that day.

@@alexanderchristopher6237 I know, I was just giving background on why the French surrendered, though I missed the Evacuation at Dunkirk, I was covering why they did

@@alexanderchristopher6237 Free France (Charles de Gaulle) would be extremely helpful in Africa, Italy, and the Invasion of Southern France (Operation Dragoon). The French Resistance (Underground) would sabotage the Nazis the entire time while under occupation. Destroying railways, communications posts, and others to help British Agents in exchange for Weapons and Supplies, up until The Liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944.

In fact, France was deeply divided in 1940. But France, thanks De gaulle, was among the winners in 1945...

France's standing army was in fact larger than that of Germany in the beginning.

But yet, the English lost...

@@siddhantsharma7728 and that french and british meshurments of foot are different

BoltMix Came from misunderstanding of French inches+Nappy was always surronded by his tall af imperial guards

@@siddhantsharma7728 It was in fact British spies that reported back to their general the short measurement of Napoleon. How they knew how tall he was IDK. I believe (according to the way I was told the story) it was just a joke that the British soldiers formed to make fun of the French leader (to decrease their morale).

@@spartanrisk and that French metric units were larger than British metric units so say 1 meter in France might be 1.2 meters in Britain its an example but im not sure on how large the gap was.

@@mrprimor227 Ok I believe you in the disparity of the units, but wouldn't that make him seem taller not shorter. Think about it, it takes more French units to equal the same amount in British units. Like the US Dollar and the GBP for example. It takes more for one to fit in the other. The one that takes more to fill 1 unit of the other seems larger. Your logic makes sense except for that. The British soldiers' report of Napoleon's height was fake. Whether they meant it to be or not, it's false.

Not French, a Norman who were vikings

@@Tom-2142 At this time, normandy was under french command, so William was a french with viking origins. Still a french dude.

@@Tom-2142 Only an English would say such thing LOL

Icono ok?

@@LOeuffy He was french and you are true his ancestors were hired to protect the french kingdom from foreign enemies in the end creates a kingdom which becomes frances major enemy