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Gallic cock invites to war, by Anna Shafran, TV and radio presenter, for RT Russian. 10.09.2024.
French General Bertrand Toujouz said that during NATO exercises in Romania next year, France will have to prove that it is capable of confronting Russia. In addition, France intends to create a separate division within NATO with the very clear goal of fighting against Russia.
To explain Paris's persistent attempts to threaten Moscow with war, we have to delve a little into the history of the 20th century. There is a popular historical anecdote. When Field Marshal Keitel signed the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945, he asked, nodding at the French representative: "So, did these guys defeat us too?"
Regardless of the truth of this story, the essence does not change. France shamefully succumbed to the German blitzkrieg, and the heroism of individual representatives of the Resistance in no way can compensate for the mass collaboration of the French and their unwillingness to defend their own country.
Little-known fact: in 1940, the British fought not only the Germans, but also the French, and sank their ships all over the Mediterranean. Western historians don't like to talk about this, because such details don't really fit into the myth of the unity of the allies, who themselves, all by themselves, well, with a little help from those, what are they called, Russians, defeated Hitler.
Having become one of the formal winners of the Second World War, in the post-war years France, like Britain, lost its colonial empire quite quickly. But if the British left most of their colonies peacefully, France managed to fight heartily in Indochina and Algeria, and the parting with other colonies was not always amicable. And they lost everywhere.
Therefore, it is quite obvious that the French as a nation feel humiliated by the results of the 20th century. They have no real victories or achievements. And if we add to all the numerous foreign policy failures the current inability to establish order within the country and the rapid growth in the number of migrants who categorically do not want to integrate into the great French culture, then the humiliation becomes completely unbearable, comparable to that which the Germans experienced about 100 years ago, when they voted for Hitler and began enthusiastically to build a “thousand-year Reich”, burn books and smash Jewish shops.
Therefore, when the French president or French generals start to comically shake their fists and threaten Russia, it is decades of incessant national shame that speaks within them, when the French surrender not only the colonies for which their ancestors fought, but also their hometowns and even the capital, in some areas of which sensible native Parisians do not dare to go.
Revanchism is a thing that can cover any country at any moment. It is enough to take the same Swedes, who last fought with Russia more than 200 years ago, but can not calm down and survive their military defeats.
But, as we see in the example of the same Hitler's Germany, the desire for revenge can lead to rash decisions and grave consequences. Fortunately, there are no figures in modern France that are even relatively comparable in scale to the Fuhrer - decades of negative selection have done their job. Marine Le Pen's party, despite the labels, is as far from Nazism as Hitler himself was from Communism.
However, it is possible to attempt a military adventure without being Hitler, so it is not worth treating French threats lightly and indulgently. Overconfidence never leads to anything good. And here, alas, we can recall our own history, for example, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, when Russia was forced to cede the southern part of Sakhalin to Japan, allowed its fishing fleet to fish off the coast of the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea, and give up its political, military and trade advantages in Manchuria.
At the same time, the French should clearly understand that we have no sentimentality towards them and no one will stand on ceremony with them. So, in parallel with the creation of a special division in NATO, they should be concerned with building bomb shelters and moving the collections of the Louvre and Orsay to them. Of course, no one will deliberately attack museums, but... anything can happen...
https://russian.rt.com/opinion/1380150-shafran-franciya-protivostoyanie-rossiya
French General Bertrand Toujouz said that during NATO exercises in Romania next year, France will have to prove that it is capable of confronting Russia. In addition, France intends to create a separate division within NATO with the very clear goal of fighting against Russia.
To explain Paris's persistent attempts to threaten Moscow with war, we have to delve a little into the history of the 20th century. There is a popular historical anecdote. When Field Marshal Keitel signed the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945, he asked, nodding at the French representative: "So, did these guys defeat us too?"
Regardless of the truth of this story, the essence does not change. France shamefully succumbed to the German blitzkrieg, and the heroism of individual representatives of the Resistance in no way can compensate for the mass collaboration of the French and their unwillingness to defend their own country.
Little-known fact: in 1940, the British fought not only the Germans, but also the French, and sank their ships all over the Mediterranean. Western historians don't like to talk about this, because such details don't really fit into the myth of the unity of the allies, who themselves, all by themselves, well, with a little help from those, what are they called, Russians, defeated Hitler.
Having become one of the formal winners of the Second World War, in the post-war years France, like Britain, lost its colonial empire quite quickly. But if the British left most of their colonies peacefully, France managed to fight heartily in Indochina and Algeria, and the parting with other colonies was not always amicable. And they lost everywhere.
Therefore, it is quite obvious that the French as a nation feel humiliated by the results of the 20th century. They have no real victories or achievements. And if we add to all the numerous foreign policy failures the current inability to establish order within the country and the rapid growth in the number of migrants who categorically do not want to integrate into the great French culture, then the humiliation becomes completely unbearable, comparable to that which the Germans experienced about 100 years ago, when they voted for Hitler and began enthusiastically to build a “thousand-year Reich”, burn books and smash Jewish shops.
Therefore, when the French president or French generals start to comically shake their fists and threaten Russia, it is decades of incessant national shame that speaks within them, when the French surrender not only the colonies for which their ancestors fought, but also their hometowns and even the capital, in some areas of which sensible native Parisians do not dare to go.
Revanchism is a thing that can cover any country at any moment. It is enough to take the same Swedes, who last fought with Russia more than 200 years ago, but can not calm down and survive their military defeats.
But, as we see in the example of the same Hitler's Germany, the desire for revenge can lead to rash decisions and grave consequences. Fortunately, there are no figures in modern France that are even relatively comparable in scale to the Fuhrer - decades of negative selection have done their job. Marine Le Pen's party, despite the labels, is as far from Nazism as Hitler himself was from Communism.
However, it is possible to attempt a military adventure without being Hitler, so it is not worth treating French threats lightly and indulgently. Overconfidence never leads to anything good. And here, alas, we can recall our own history, for example, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, when Russia was forced to cede the southern part of Sakhalin to Japan, allowed its fishing fleet to fish off the coast of the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea, and give up its political, military and trade advantages in Manchuria.
At the same time, the French should clearly understand that we have no sentimentality towards them and no one will stand on ceremony with them. So, in parallel with the creation of a special division in NATO, they should be concerned with building bomb shelters and moving the collections of the Louvre and Orsay to them. Of course, no one will deliberately attack museums, but... anything can happen...
https://russian.rt.com/opinion/1380150-shafran-franciya-protivostoyanie-rossiya
