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paleotn

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30. If not for the French, we'd be in the British Commonwealth....

Reply to Baron2024 (Original post)

Wed Mar 19, 2025, 09:22 PM

Mar 19

Charles III would be on our money and our founders would have assuredly hung separately. WWII was a repayment of our debt to the French people and the House of Bourbon specifically. Louis XVI didn't have to help us. They still hadn't recovered from the Seven Years War. He bankrupted his country doing so and ironically sowed the seeds of his own demise. Had it not been for French boots on the ground and Comte de Grasse's fleet, Yorktown wouldn't have happened and our revolution would have eventually died of starvation. But I'm sure all that is well over the head of Baghdad Barbie. I'm probably more Anglophile than most Americans but we cannot ever thank the French enough.

Also ironically, I wouldn't mind having a Westminster style Parliament. Might have avoided our current unpleasantness.

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