When did France go wrong?
>Ultimate military power in Europe
>Achieved great victories despite heavy odds against them
>Led by some of the most charismatic men in history
>Formed great colonies
>A bastion of history, knowledge, literature, music, culture among other things
a few centuries of bloodthirst will tire anyone
>>71898250
Nepoleon took on too many nations at once during the 7th coalition war. Another failure was also the political stability of his government. His set up failed just like a lot of other temporary raises to greatness Empires do. Thier Leader is "Cult of Personality" Syndrome. Leader gone ,country shrinks like crazy.
ExamplesV
>Yugoslavia after Tito
>Nazi Germany
>Hapsburg Monarchy
>Emperor Pedro 1st and 4th
>France under Napoleon the 3rd
>Italy under Mussolini
>America under Reagan, JFK, FDR, Theodore Roosevelt, Jackson, and Eisenhower.
>Iraq under Sadam
>Iran under the Shah
>>71898661
Yes, a true leader sacrifice himself for the cause and has in place a successor in case shit goes wrong:
See Washington, Caesar or Lenin
>>71898250
Going to russia, Even Russians die cuz of the cold in Russian winter.
>>71898250
Napoleon: going to Russia before finishing the eternal anglo, who was agonizing due to port blockades.
France: having too many jewish, and boomers. Boomers literally destroyed this country.
>>71898250
massive political instability after the revolution (like regime change every 20 years) coupled with huge population growth decline and limited industrialisation. Napoleon was shit tier at diplomacy. He should have been allied with spain and austria instead of cucking them. On the list was also keeping the businessman peace Britain briefly tried out with him by not being overly agressive. He could easily puppet most of italy, germany up to the rhine, belgium and nertherland and get away with it over time, just not in like 1 year. BTFO'ing Prussia hard in a 1vs1 was excelent though. He also had no reason to fight the russians that far away.
>>71898990
Boomers started destroying every western nation and their children are finishing the job.
>>71899470
A civilization takes several generations to build, but only one is enough to be destroyed.
What a pity.
>>71898250
Henry IVth. He introduced absolutism in France, then nobles were destroyed and political life was limited to philosophers and writers. They came up with shitty, terrible ideas, but because there were no nobles anymore, people didn't know how to do politics normally and then came the revolution
>>71898250
Not establishing a regime in Qubec after Nap
left the island.
>>71901302
wasn't that louis XIV rendering nobles useless puppets at the court?
>>71898250
Relative population decline. France became very large and strong very early on in history because it successfully unified a large and fertile geographically contingent territory in continental Europe. So in 1800, France could draw on a population of almost 23 million people for its military and industrial needs - far more than any other nation in Europe with the exception of Russia, whose manpower reserves could not be mobilised. This offset its industrial handicap against the more advanced nation of Great Britain and the more bureaucratically developed nation of Prussia. This advantage had almost entirely been eroded by the beginning of the 20th century, particularly after the unification of Germany.
>>71898250
The moment they've dropped their God given flag and monarch.
>>71901793
Henry IV started the process. At least I remember reading that in a history book
>>71898990
How many "soixante-retards" are still around?
It actually seems like Generation-X is dying BEFORE a lot of the Baby Boomers are dying.
![charles_de_gaulle[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/X92ffqf.jpg "charles_de_gaulle[1].jpg")
>>71898250
Avoiding all meme answers, Charles de Gaulle. And I don't mean De Gaulle was a shitty leader: au contraire, De Gaulle was the last great leader France had.
The country, a grand country indeed, had many glorious victories as well as its share of defeats. WW2 however, was what broke its spine. De Gaulle even described his efforts as "I had shown the people the corpse of France and convinced them she still lived".
>>71901821
This too, France's population barely grew in the 1800s where all of its neighbors, even Italy and especially Germany, overtook it in population. A unified Germany was the most dangerous entity France had to deal with in all of its history, because it was the only individual power that could threaten France without having to rely on a complex web of alliances (look up the wars France waged prior to the 1800s, and notice how many of them are "France vs pretty much everyone else").
>>71901947
Well they were doing fine until the monarchy lost the fight against the judges and then bent over the lumieres philosophes which started in the late 18th century to implement terrible free trade ideas which caused massive famines on one side, and then borrowed massive amount of money which was facilitated by those liberal bankers on the other. It lead to the revolution.
>>71898250
Look into the rothschild involvement during the french revolution already. And all wars after that, especially Napoleon, france heavily needed the funding of the rich. France was the first country that the wealthy jews had a firm grip on, britain followed shortly after, then the US starting at around 1913 with the FED. Then germany for a short time from 1918 till 1933 and then again starting 1945.
All relevant wars were only possible because the countries lend money from rich people or printed their own money en masse without any backing, using inflation to pay for the war. This system needs to be crushed.
>>71898250
A nation who worships robespierre over Bastiat and reveres Sartre and Beavoir while condemning Celine is a fuckin shithole.
2016 FRANCE = Afrikan caliphate
>>71898250
Manlets, when will they learn?
>>71901957
A lot. Basically almost every boomer.
Things that are killing the country from the core:
- Jews (for real)
- Freemasonry (almost every single politician is a freemason)
- And like that other guy said, boomers (because many of them are either jewish, freemason, or leftist, sometimes all three combined)
>>71898250
bad economy for napoleon after 1810
>>71898250
10% muslims
>>71901994
socialism destroyed our country, instead of building tanks, we just raised the taxes to help the poor to have free stuff just before the wwII
>>71903958
Nah, the French army was solid. There were just two mistakes, neither economical in nature.
The first appeasement politics. Hitler stomped all over the Versailles Treaty and nobody did anything, allowing Hitler to grow stronger and stronger. Even his invasion of Poland was reacted to with a "phony war". Consider that in Nuremberg, the some prominent Nazis stated that their biggest fear was a French invasion when they tried to remilitarize the Rhineland.
The second ironically relates to Charles de Gaulle, who volunteered in Poland during the 1920s (in the war against the Soviets) and developed a military doctrine that can be called proto-Blitzkrieg. German commanders were more interested in it than French ones though. When the war finally came, tanks were mostly used as infantry support rather than forward destroyers. This allowed the Germans to cherrypick fights they could win, surprise the enemy, outflank them, cut off their supplies et cetera.
Socialism hamstringed France in the 1960s, as with the rest of Europe.
>>71904174
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_%28France%29
>>71898250
We have gone wrong the same way as most north and west europe has gone wrong.
Too many liberal scum and a lot of immigrants
>>71898250
1968
>>71898250
Everyone formed against them eventually and they then alienated their only allies and made enemies of them then lost 250'000 men walking from Russia.
Like all losing countries, they tried to take down Mother Russia
>>71898956
Napoleon entered burning Moscow in September, long before any winter. He started retreating during the Fall which also isn't really that cold and the war ended in December in Europe.
