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The issue with France is that it compete with Us military industry not that it does not produce enough.

I think the real issue with France is that they continue to pretend to be a super-power but they don't have the ability.

So we hear their grand claims, and they never enforce it.

This creates frustration in Europe because the leader of the European identity has a reputation of being a C student. (And no one seems to be ready to let Germany lead)

Both France and UK are former superpowers (really empires) that are now shadows of their former selves, but still refuse to accept the new reality (where "new" means ~80+ years old). The UK is arguably doing better at accepting reality than France though. French people really don't seem to understand why no one outside of France (or Quebec, or some colonies) speaks French these days.

>And no one seems to be ready to let Germany lead

Including the Germans.

I mean, whats that bit from Norm McDonnell about how he’s still worried about the Germans, “it was basically them versus the world and it was kind of close!”

https://youtu.be/uXdtafGdIVM?si=Q0Di2LHqiuHzqyRR

The stand-up comedy in question

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