• Hubbubbub@fedia.io
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    “Absolutely not. My advice to that unnamed low-level French politician would be to remind them that it’s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now,” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in a press briefing Monday, likely referencing an American-French allyship during World War II that snuffed out Nazi Germany. “They should be grateful.”

    This is how we treat our allies now? What timeline are we in?

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      We know damn well she would have sided with the Nazi, had she lived during WWII.

      She demands gratefulness for something she would have never endorsed in the first place.

      French people can speak german if they like and what is very interesting is that France is a very close ally to Germany but no longer the USA.

      If she thinks we are not grateful enough, perhaps she could visit Normandy. Pay her respect in front of the tombs of the brave soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the name of freedom. The very same thing the administration she works for is taking away from american.

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      Yes, what’s up with that? Couldn’t USA find a peaceful solution back then? But no, they had to invade. Its like they didn’t want peace. /s

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      And if the French hadn’t helped the US in the revolutionary war, they’d all be speaking English and be under a despotic monarch now.

      Oh wait…

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      I love his these utter dips are reminding France that we fought the Nazis, while acting like Nazis and being saluted like Nazis.

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        Moreover they forget they own a good part of their independence to France