Oh, yes, the French: the 400kg gorillas of Europe for a millennium, the military that WON the "American" revolution for them, and yet all anyone in the USA cares about is that "they lost one battle in one war where nobody on the planet could have possibly done better".
By which, of course, I mean, "a half-century later, the US refused to listen to the lessons that France learned in Algeria, and instead insisted on doing stupid shit over the advice of their longest-standing-by-far allies, who knew better"
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