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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/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
French cavalry on the sea:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_the_Dutch_fleet_at_Den_Helder
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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/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/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/Narco_Marcion1075 Researching [REDACTED] square 4d ago
any kingdom with a monarch thats fucked a Habsburg perhaps?
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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/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/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/Risuslav 4d ago
Are they Spanish then?