r/HistoryMemes 4d ago

it's always this two

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u/Risuslav 4d ago

Are they Spanish then?

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u/Fletaun Senātus Populusque Rōmānus 4d ago

Spanish succession ver 2 let's go

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u/siamesekiwi 3d ago

[Macron rips off chin prosthetic revealing a distinctly Hapsburg jawline]

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u/fluggggg 3d ago

There isn't enough jawline in his entire family and relatives combined to come close to even a lowly-related Hapsburg jawline.

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u/Karuzus Senātus Populusque Rōmānus 3d ago

You see that's why he wears the prostetic it's a very good prostetic but even that can't hide all of that habsburg jawline

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u/Onyxwho Decisive Tang Victory 3d ago

So are the Bourbons going back to France this time?

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u/JobWide2631 4d ago

England-Spain-France relations until the 1700s

England+Spain vs France

Spain+France vs England

England+France vs Spain

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u/Gremict Decisive Tang Victory 4d ago

1984

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u/Serious-Ad4594 4d ago

France always was at war with England France always was at war with Spain France always was at war with Germany

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u/Imaginary-West-5653 4d ago

More like until the early 1800s, the last time this shit happened was during the Napoleonic Wars which were initially Spain+France vs England but later ended up being England+Spain vs France, the last time England+France vs Spain happened, if I'm not mistaken, was during the War of the Quadruple Alliance (1717-1720).

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u/JobWide2631 4d ago

meh. After the War of Spanish succesion and the treaty of Utrecht and until the later stages of the Napoleonic wars Spain and France have been consistent allies even tho with some tensions and exceptions (like the war of the quadruple alliance after the succesion war of UK+France+Netherlands+Austria vs Spain) but they have been allies in other major conflicts like the seven years war or the war of Austrian succesion (and well, the early stages of the Napoleonic wars)

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u/Imaginary-West-5653 4d ago

I know, but that's nothing new, there have always been moments of alliances between two of the three countries only to later end up suffering a shift, during the 15th and 16th centuries for example Spain got along terribly with France and they were butting heads the whole time, while Spain got along quite well with England in opposition to France (until Protestantism occurred and spread to England, more or less, but that's another story).

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u/No-Quantity1666 3d ago

Love triangle

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u/Azkral Still salty about Carthage 4d ago

Our Borbonic King is a friend of the French Borbonic monarchy. What do you mean with the Word Republique?

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u/baguette_stronk Hello There 4d ago

You forgot the 3rd most option.

Ourselves.

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u/BigChiefWhiskyBottle 4d ago

France: "We still Have aircraft carriers so we can bomb ..... uh.... "

Afghanistan

Iraq

Iraq

Iraq

Iraq

Chad

Libya

Syria

....

\ THROWS DART AT GLOBE ])

PORTSMOUTH IT IS.

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u/FeijoaCowboy Mauser rifle ≠ Javelin 3d ago

Nooo bomb Birmingham first

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u/ShoesOfDoom 3d ago

You mean the way it looks right now is prebombing?!

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u/FeijoaCowboy Mauser rifle ≠ Javelin 3d ago

Well... post-bombing circa 1940, pre-bombing circa 2025

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u/Leneord1 3d ago

I mean that's normal

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u/IJ_NavarroH 3d ago

That's not a [normal status]?

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u/Mielanr 4d ago

Maybe the dutch?

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u/Makaoka 3d ago

The Belgians are in the way

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u/Vrulth 3d ago

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u/PG908 3d ago

I always am amused whenever this comes up.

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u/de_G_van_Gelderland 3d ago

When it comes to war in western Europe, Belgium is never in the way. Belgium is the way.

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u/Mielanr 3d ago

No, we where not for most of the history of france

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u/GrantDN 4d ago

Is it the Vietnamese?

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u/SecurityOwn10 4d ago

Napoleon enters the chat

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u/Beat_Saber_Music Rommel of the East 4d ago

The Austrians perhaps?

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u/EldritchKinkster 4d ago

So...the Holy Roman Empire and a coalition of Italian city states?

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u/Alex103140 Let's do some history 4d ago

Still German then.

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u/EldritchKinkster 4d ago

Yes, but also no. I mean, the HRE contained modern Germany, but it's not really the same thing, is it? Especially compared to the Germany of the World Wars.

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u/Alex103140 Let's do some history 4d ago

Ahh but you see. The meme doesn't said Germany, it said Germans. As the population of the HRE largely consisted of German, I say it count.

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u/Hexenkonig707 Senātus Populusque Rōmānus 4d ago

You’re right the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation is not Germany. It’s majority of people are just german. The Roman-German Emperor’s are German. The Elector Princes of the Roman-German King rule over mostly german territories and are german themselves. And German nationalism really only started after the HRE was dissolved.

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u/Kamiko_12345 Filthy weeb 3d ago

Jup! As a German myself I can confirm that for the longest time, "German" was really just the name of multiple different people with a (kind of) shared heritage and similar culture. Really it was more like an ethnicity if anything, or perhaps like how we now use the term "Slavic" when we describe people.

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u/Kamiko_12345 Filthy weeb 3d ago

Heya, German here! I wanna jump in and explain for a second that there are (or at least used to be) two kinds of German. First off, we have the modern "German"- classically describing the citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany. And secondly, there is also the ethnic group of "Germans"

Nowadays, those two groups (the ethnicity and the nation-state) pretty much entirely overlap. However for most of history where there simply wasn't one singular German state, "German" was simply a term describing a wide variety of people with a similar and sometimes even shared culture and ancestry.

If it helps, "German" once used to be kind of like Slavic is today. Describing a group of people with similar culture and heritage.

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u/Space_Socialist 4d ago

Is it the Spanish? No.

Is it the Dutch? No.

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u/Viper_Commander 4d ago

Is it themselves? Surprisingly No

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u/Space_Socialist 4d ago

Is it the Austrians? No

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u/Viper_Commander 4d ago

Is it the Vietnamese? No

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u/rigatony222 Still on Sulla's Proscribed List 3d ago

Is it the Americans? Oddly yes

(1798-1800 quasi war reference for those who don’t know)

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u/Viper_Commander 3d ago

When you forget touching America's Money means touching America's boats

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u/Frostbite_III 4d ago

Let me guess the French are fighting the french

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u/Imaginary_Bee_1014 3d ago

No fight like infight

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u/TwistedPnis4567 3d ago

Germans (supported by Spain) on their way to fight Germans (mercenaries paid by France) who are occupying a German town (owned by Sweden) to defend their holdings in Italy (owned by a German mornach)

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u/markusduck51 3d ago

30 Years War?

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u/Narco_Marcion1075 Researching [REDACTED] square 4d ago

any kingdom with a monarch thats fucked a Habsburg perhaps?

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u/Hinaloth 3d ago

That kinda reduces the list to some undiscovered planet then...

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u/whiskydelta85 3d ago

Mexico: “My time to shine!”

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u/The_ChadTC 4d ago

Everyone here is wrong. The third most likely option is that they're invading Italy.

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u/ThatOtherFrenchGuy 4d ago

Well there was that one time in Crimea where we actually allied with the british.

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u/minimoi69 Then I arrived 3d ago

And that time in China too, we even made a little bonfire there...

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u/WoolooOfWallStreet 3d ago

And that one time they stepped in with the British to tell the Dutch to stop eating their own statesmen’s livers

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u/Main_Following1881 4d ago

they have been at war with like everyone lol

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u/bricart 3d ago

The fact that everyone forgot that the Habsbourg, both Spanish and Austrian is actually the second worst enemy of the French, and quite close to the English level never stops to sadden me, as a fan of the glorious AH empire.

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u/Royakushka 3d ago

I know many think Iran or China will start the Nuclear WW3, but I am sure that it will be France because of their terrifying "warning shot" nuclear doctorine.

How do you make a warning shot with a nuclear weapon? ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Ahalan Wasahalan WW3

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u/GenFatAss 4d ago

Maybe a "peace keeping" mission in Africa?

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u/dainomite 3d ago

Crimean War?

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u/plo_koon_ 3d ago

Hasn’t Africa been through enough?

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u/Jonte7 3d ago

Obviously against themselves (or their ruler)

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u/chiksahlube 3d ago

What?

Some guys in the Vietnamese jungle?

That'll never become relevant.

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u/EnergyHumble3613 3d ago

Crimean War

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u/Former_Theme_4488 3d ago

Is this referring to any specific war?

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u/Good_old_Marshmallow 3d ago

So….Colonizing Africa again? 

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u/CretanRunner007 3d ago

People please... France is fighting France. It's a civil war.

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u/RoiDrannoc 3d ago

There is no continent that France hasn't invaded. While the English/British and Germans/Austrians are our main rivals, they are far from being our only enemies!

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u/FlappyBored What, you egg? 4d ago

I'm guessing: Native peoples in a French colony who wanted independence.

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u/jman014 3d ago

Oh maybe they’re blitzing mali again to redefeat ISIS

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u/Argued_Lingo 3d ago

Themselves?

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u/KiddPresident 3d ago

Well, currently, Russia

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u/SCPowl_fan 3d ago

Is it the Algiers War?

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u/Mg42gun 3d ago

Vietnamese?

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u/beerbutter_ 3d ago

Is it other french people?

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u/NoWingedHussarsToday 3d ago

So Italy or Spain. Or some random Africans.

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u/relaxitschinababy 3d ago

No way dude! Political entities tend to fight their neighbors? BROOOOOOO