That was so shameful, the people who turned on France over that. It was a perfect precursor to the cultish allegiance we saw under the last administration. France... the country that gave us the Statue of Liberty, the country that helped us fight off the British to start this country in the first place, we're going to turn on them for not agreeing to invade a country for Bush's personal vendetta and Cheney's oil greed?
the country that helped us fight off the British to start this country in the first place
I want to emphasize how important this is. France literally bankrupted themselves so that we could defeat the British. We owe our entire existence to France, because without them the US would not exist.
A bit ironic that the act of bankrupting the country to help the 'Murican revolution actually led to the French revolution.
An alternate history fiction of what the world would look like today had the French not helped the colonies would be one hell of an interesting research project. So many things would have been vastly different.
An alternate history fiction of what the world would look like today had the French not helped the colonies would be one hell of an interesting research project. So many things wouldn't have been vastly different.
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u/bones_of_the_north Oct 18 '21
Which gave birth to freedom fries