• FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Pretty sure Europe is pretty much safe. We got the French. If the world was a marvel movie, they’d be the Hulk.

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      21 hours ago

      I am an out of the loop American, why France?

      I know France has nukes but not much else

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        20 hours ago

        I’ll do my best to give you a short introduction.

        Ever heard of the French revolution and the beheading of rich people? Let’s put it this way, there are no more beheadings but when the government does something that the majority of the population doesn’t like, things start to burn and shit breaks. “Liberté” is a big part if not the biggest part of French culture.

        The same goes for their military. France was a colonial power for many centuries. And doesn’t put up with anything if someone tries to act stupid. Like recently when France sent a nuclear submarine to Canada when Trump said he wanted to annex Canada. They also have the Foreign Legion which anyone can join and is considered one of the toughest armies in the world.

        I’ve only scratched the surface, but France is basically what you get if fuck around and find out was a country.

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          16 hours ago

          I’m pretty sure they brought the sub to see if we wanted to buy any, quite some time ago.

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          18 hours ago

          internally that sounds great, I wish the US would do the same, the French know how to protest and fight against the rich

          internationally the US Navy has a bigger air force than France does and we have states with more land mass, just not sure what France can do to stand up to the US bully

          but I’m glad EU is mostly united against this bullshit and again France has nukes so the US can’t risk that

          Ukraine should never have given them up and no one will again

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            16 hours ago

            America has, without a doubt, the biggest military power. Such great power in the hands of a toddler.

            It sad that it has to be like that. I wish we had something like United Nations of Earth like they predicted it in the 70s-90s.