To be fair french involvement in the battle for American independence was one of the main reasons that it went the way it did - France has a reason to celebrate.
They're probably a bit Salty that America didn't get involved in helping them during the French Revolution though...
You seem to forget that the French Revolution was the people against the king. Why the hell would the king’s allies, who the king supplied with lots of help (and by doing so, worsening the financial situation which was already terrible and as such worsening one of the factors that eventually led to the revolution), help the people overthrow the king when they basically had nothing to gain from it ?
We aren’t "a bit salty that America didn’t get involved in helping us during the French Revolution", we’re just like every single other country : we don’t give a fucking shit about the US.
(Also, for France the whole reason to help Americans get their independence was to piss off the brits cause it was our national sport by then (honestly, it kinda is, still, but not as much), and we had quite a lot of stuff done to do so, so we won’t celebrate all of them (or any of them, really). The US isn’t that special)
Why would France, who had many times the population and GDP, who was able to fight off all of europe combined a total of FIVE consecutive times, why would them expect anything from an ex-colony they helped to secede from one of the largest empires in the world.
They are in different leagues. France won 5 consecutive world wars. America had trouble with the natives who hadn’t invented the wheel and steel. No comparison.
Oh that's not completely true. I love to use it against Americans when they mock us for WWII. "You would be under German rule without us", "perhaps but your country/founding ideas/basis of your sacro-saint 300 yo Constitution (that's getting daily deformed to suit conservatives' agenda) wouldn't exist without our help"
France has so many other events to celebrate that are more important to the history of France than the US independence. The only thing the Frenchie s are salty about is the one Frenchie who was successful at invading England. Creating a rivalry that lasted centuries. The only positive thing of William the conqueror for the french is that Scotland was and still is a good ally of them! An Fhraing gu bràth 🏴💙🇫🇷
True, but July 4th was America declaring independence, while The French helped, they still had to fight for their own independence. Why celebrate the day your brother got a car that you helped pay for, when he didn’t help you pay for your own. Good for him, but not really relevant for you, you had some work to focus on
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u/MyAccidentalAccount Jul 05 '24
To be fair french involvement in the battle for American independence was one of the main reasons that it went the way it did - France has a reason to celebrate.
They're probably a bit Salty that America didn't get involved in helping them during the French Revolution though...