It's so unfair that France also gets those culture and tourism bonuses. It needs a nerf. Anyway, if you want to watch more documentaries about how OP France is, check out all the number of fun historical documentaries on CuriosityStream here: curiositystream.com/reallifelore
If they are so op they didnt make so much out of it. I mean right now there economy is on a low and if germany is going on like it is now the will crumble too. Without those two powers the eu ist garbage
@@kakalimukherjee3297 .ask every German ! You never learn. Each time the Germans crossed the line it ended badly for them. And this is why ...... drumrolls...France has stolen two German regions and will keep them.....forever.. Because in 2021, Germany is weak and France is strong.
@@deusvult9439 Wealth is the root of all power. So the currency that is the Euro IS the most reliable defense. Don't try to argue against it, your entire life evolves around making money, and the same matters for nations. Nuclear weaponry is a deterence. You nuke me? I nuke you. It's like sitting in a room full of people you don't like, and a bomb. Everyone can go trigger the bomb, but nobody wants to die.
Brexit is the latest news but problems inside the EU are older than that, there are lots of conflicts inside the alliance due to economics and legal reasons, and even if the benefits are huge I wouldn't say the countries are friends
France: Oh no,not the 1st time,we defend it since 15 centuries. And you Poland,can you tell me how good you defended your country before it was totally erased by Russia and Prussia? Poland: 🤐 France:And who did make you reborn after defeating both Russia,Prussia and Austria on plains battlefields? Poland: Well,it's Napoleon! France: So what do we say? Poland: Thank you France.
@@dapoun7228 tbf, poland was surrounded by it’s enemy with no geographical advantage… you’re making an unfair comparison, Poland is way more vulnerable than France
@@dapoun7228 Don't forget about World War II, when France failed to meet the alliance's requirements, and in addition, France capitulated earlier than Poland, even though Poland fought on two fronts
French geography is perfect, it’s the living things that might be a problem: In summer there are mosquitoes and in winter it’s full of English tourists.
RLL makes it interesting but the type you learn in school kinda sucks, I took Geography and learning about fossil fuels and the permeability of rocks isn’t all that fun.
@@nerevarchthn6860 Yes alone, in the early 1800's France invaded the Holy Roman Empire, Prussia and Austria. Also at the time of Louis XIV, France invaded a great part of west Germany and the Netherlands.
Thank you for creating this video. I absolutely LOVE French history, especially during the 16th century. I hope you can create more videos about this wonderful country.
The EU is scared witless about loosing one of the few net contributes, and is happy to allow the nay sayers to ignore the principles of democracy to impose their will on the majority. I hope they will have the decency to respect Boris Johnson's emphatic mandate.
@@alecblunden8615 The UK will when leaving the EU negotiate new trade deals in desperation. The EU will probably give the UK a fair deal because countries like Netherlands and Sweden would be hurt otherwise as most of UK trade goes to and and comes from the EU. The US however, they will be brutal. Brexit will hurt the EU, but it has the potential of hurting the UK even more.
@@alecblunden8615 hey Alec, how's that Brexit decision going for you? For 3 and a half years your politicians could not decide on which terms to leave and now you are still part of the EU. Your country has become the laughingstock of Europe with Brexit. But at least you got some new blue passports to be proud of while BoJo the clown sells off your NHS to the US. 😂
The famous rivers Siene and Lorie, passing through cities such as Prais or Natnes, famous historical cities, to finally end up in the Altantic and the Engilsh Chanenl
God created France, and to balance the perfectness he create the french. [Edit]: as a french myself i feel bad that i have to do french bashing to get so much likes .
RealLifeLore: France's Geography is Almost Perfect Otto von Bismarck: Yes, almost. That weird Austrian German: Ja, have you ever heard my "Ardennen Autoban"?
Doffy Rob Without Lend-Lease and Britain or USA France would easily have beaten. And 2WW you should agree that Germany overran the French. Without Hitler as an idiot who attacks Soviet Union, France would be Großdeutschland today.
@Klantvinder.com and yet, the French people have the highest productivity per inhabitant with their 35h a week ... Sounds like the world got something wrong
@@Asiandramas99 not fully accurate before Napoleon we were the Spanish Netherlands, before that we were the Bourghondian Netherlands, couple of Netherland iterations, short time France, Middle empire, Caroline/Frankish Empire and before that Roman empire and before that celtic and germanic tribes. Short answer most of middle ages the power centre of the Netherlands untill The Dutch-Spanish war
@@johnycakes6613 nope, about Afghanistan, it's GB, Russia, a coalition that the leader prefeared to put the means to win (and succeeded in creating a beast) in another country, USA
I always thought the US was extremely well-placed. Possibly the most strategically placed country on Earth. The US doesn't share borders with neighboring threats (Canada hardly invests in its military because the US is so powerful, and Mexico, no offense, is too poor to be powerful). With those 2 countries not being threats, and more so allies, it takes the crossing of the entire Pacific or Atlantic oceans to get to the US. This puts most militaries at a distinct disadvantage, if they ever wanted to go on the offensive. The US also has the most powerful Navy in the whole world, and can defend its coasts very easily.
@@nedludd7622 We had the same kind of president that let the enemy invade us but he's been removed by the military, just like Biden. We are now waiting for Donald Trump to announce that the world is free.
Fun Fact: A house in Stalingrad held out longer than the entirety of France in WW2. That shows how easily France was defeated by the Germans. In the time it took Germany to defeat France they barely crossed a single street in Russia.
@@ezra5788 World War II casualties of the Soviet Union: 27 Million. It wasn't exactly easy and quick to stop the Nazis. And if it wasn't for the English Channel, GB would have fallen just as fast as France in 1939.
@@RicardoSilva-du8qc The blitzkrieg is not really a real strategy, it's popular because some random English broadcasts make a documentary about it. As Hitler himself claimed it to be "absolute idiotic."
This is really interesting! I'm always fascinated by how we took the goldilocks geography of Europe and completely squandered it by beating each other up for a couple thousand years solid.
About the ww2 references: France's geography is ALMOST perfect (hi, Germany). Now let's talk about demography. 1914 : France: 41,630,000 , Germany: 65,860,000 1940 : France: 40,690,000 , Germany: 69,838,000 France used to be *by far* the most populated country of Europe, and that's one of the reasons why France could resist (and invade) most of Europe during the French revolution wars and the Napoleonic wars. But this situation ended ~after the Napoleonic era and France underwent a lasting demographic winter, while other European countries' population increased a lot. Despite massive immigration starting in the 1870s, it didn't change much (there were even years at the end of 19th c. when France actually lost population (more deaths than births) IIRC).
@jean ford I am British daddy , and I am just saying why people hate good places like London, Paris, New York, I just know why because they live in a bad place like Germany, who will want to live there? I don't know who will want to live there
@@pesghots2650 we got beer, bread and a relitevly good social system. Well and thats it all there isnt more. But still germany is a better place than countries like the usa or other third world countries
@@pesghots2650 your not British you cant even construct a good english sentence "maybe because you never live a good place" you type like someone who has learned english as a second language
Delicious. Finnaly some good fucking foo- LAND.... land of a sovereingn state.... im not planning to eat it.... i promise --Germany, basicaly in every centurie
John Healy is British....his army ran from the fight in 1940 like the cowards they were. Couldn't pull that move off in Singapore in 1942 so they surrendered en masse without as much as firing a shot. Go away!
Seriously. How did they not just build a wall (like China) or a series of forts!? (Apparently they did try the latter, but much too late) Seriously, how could they be so incompetent?
Leo Velli Because unlike Manchuria and Mongolia, the rhine was a very rich and prosperous area of land, since the end of Charlemagne’s empire France has had some claim to it and most of the wars in modern civilization were for control of the rhine
@@MerkhVision That area is the beginning of the most densely populated area of Europe, and consequently one its most productive and powerful. No chance the people of that area would let such military presence continue, just look at Okinawa today. Compared to the Great Wall of China, which was built north of Beijing, itself around surrounded by useless unproductive mountains on the west, north and east, and extending the wall further west towards the steppes where only the tiny number of horse nomads go. Belgium was additionally supposed to let the Maginot expand into their border with Germany, not along their border with France. They chose to be like the Dutch who in WWI remained neutral. Thinking that Germany would similarly respect that sort of neutrality again, and also choosing the UK as their preferred ally over France, they felt protected enough. Unfortunately, the British lacked army, and despite the splendid navy and air force, they couldn't even begin retaking continental Europe until the Americans arrived.
@@MerkhVision since the middle ages that area was stuffed full of castles, continuing into massive amounts of fortifications in the Renaissance and early modern period. The Maginot Line (which I'm assuming you're thinking of) even incorporated some of these, as they were still so big, useful and imposing over the local geography. They just happened to be fortifying it against every single super power that wasn't Britain or Spain, so it's honestly crazy the WW2 blitz hadn't happened more than once in a thousand years xD
@@MerkhVision well during Louis XIV reign, they builded a big serie of forteresses, called the iron belt, who was extremely effective up until the discovery of dynamite
@@raayds9589 I mean I’m french too and feel proud even though I didn’t do anything except BE french. Kinda stupid concept but nationalism i guess, same goes for all other countries
France is a country where you can spend a full month visiting a beautiful town every single day and where you can ski in the morning and relax at the beach in the afternoon
You can do that in Italy:) and since beach can be on a lake, we can for sure say Austria and Switzerland too, and any other country that has mountains high enough to ski in summer:)
france is also a country where you could get your head chopped off as a noble in the 1800's due to a revolution due to people not being able to eat due to seven years of war with the uk and prussia
@@somethingsomething2100 And without you, Germany just broke on the Eastern front 2 week after. And without a Spanish double agent, you'll be obliterate in Normandy by Rommel. And without Churchill, you'll divide France like Germany, because you were here to conquer, not to liberate.
The situation at 05:35 was even worse. Following the German invasion of The Netherlands and Belgium, the Allied forces moved north, into both attacked countries, which was just what the Germans were hoping for. With most of their forces north of the French border, following the German breakthrough (or better 'sail through' because there were almost no forces stationed in the Ardennes Region) most of the Allied forces' supply lines were cut off and they were being surrounded from the north and south. Therefore the only direction they could fall back to, was the Belgian coast, ending up in Dunkirk.
On a non-diplomatic/military side, it is also pretty much perfect. The amount of diversity for such a relatively small country is astonishing. You can visit France for almost any reason or any activity. Not to even mention the amount of History, landmarks, culture, etc (which are not really about geography), France has some of the most beautiful mountains in the World, the Atlantic coast is mighty, beautiful, wild, while the Mediterranean coast is idyllic, glamourous, etc. The countryside is amazing too. We almost have every type of landscape. Cliffs, oceans, paradisiacal islands, the Alps, you name it. Believe it or not, we even have a small Colorado-type of Canyon in the South. Economically speaking, it's the only country having direct access over the Channel to the North, to the Atlantic Ocean to the West & to the Mediterranean Sea to the South. VIVE LA FRANCE! 🇫🇷⚜️
@@Sticktothemodels California is cool & all, & the U.S. in general! But everything is just « new World. » I’ve lived in North America for a total of 2 years, it’s awesome for many reasons, some spectacular landscapes & impressive cities, but you miss the vibe, the History, the culture. You just miss gazing at a 800 year-old Cathedral while eating French cuisine at a terrasse, drinking Champagne (I’m from Champagne) & overhearing some monumental French songs. You feel like every town is a shopping area/business park. Not much compared to old & iconic places such as Chamonix, Menton, Saint-Guirec, Reims, Paris, Collioure, Lac Léman, les Chateaux de la Loire, I mean you name it, night & day.
As somebody who laughs at the satire against the French, if you ask me for a serious appraisal of France’s military history, I’d have to say the US still has to reach their level. Now a lot of Americans will be upset by that, but let’s put it in context. France, or the region known as France, gave the Romans a run for their money, only being beaten by a man by the name of Julius Caesar and some lucky turns. Jump a few centuries and they were among the major players in the Crusades. Constant war between major powers like England, Spain and Germany show they were no pushover. Napoleon is among the top ten greatest generals in history and is studied at most military academies. I’m not sure how many American generals would hold that honour, except Patton, that guy was a genius. Yes they did crumble fairly quickly in WW2, but as I’ve said in other posts, they were outmanoeuvred not defeated. The French had built a line of forts expecting a frontal assault and Germany used the black forest to drive their tanks right past them. This was a massive gamble on Germany’s part. Just a bridge down or a tank overturning would’ve turned the whole exercise into a disaster. In fact, due to the courage of French soldiers, outmatched and outgunned, the British had a successful evacuation at Dunkirk. Then for the next few years, the French Resistance made life hell for the Germans. It was the French who contributed valuable intelligence and support on D-Day and certainly were as much a part of that amazing offensive as the British, Commonwealth and American forces were. With more than 2000 years of being notorious warriors, the French have a great military history, and nothing to be ashamed of.
What you talking about they cant even defend their own country from unarmed illegal immigrants, and you talking about reaching level... lol, anyways you are welcome for saving your ass twice. I didnt see Europeans fighting in pacific.
@@hukumbra and thats where youre wrong , ok maybe not french participation because it appears germany did the work before the start of the japanese expansion and vichy france gave up indochina to japan after the peace deal, however the brits were there too alongside indian (and netherland east indies forces? ) , plus let me remind you who was left in europe to go fight in the pacific, the netherland and france surrendered and they prefer to take back their mainland logic, portugal who were also in asia stayed neutral leaving only britain, the commonwealth, USA island and the deutch east indies, im not saying the usa didnt made the most effort in asia however asking who were there to fight in the pacific: when the entire europe was pretty much done for when africa was in a turmoil when the atlantic ocean and the battle of england were forcing what was left of europe millitary strenght to resist, all that while the usa proclaimed neutrality and came in the war as a fresh country with the most industrial potential in the world, thats just unfair. If the US were to be invaded , yea its nearly impossible but imagine such a situation happened, would you bother to go fight on the other side of the world against another ennemy putting most of their war effort into taking whats left of you or would you rather do everything you can to take back your country
@@hukumbra "I didn't see Europeans fighting in the pacific" I didn't see Europeans fighting in the ocean that is opposite of their continent, where most of their armies were mobilized out of their colonies to fight the threat on their home continent that has been their world for centuries prior to that little part of the world called Indochina or East Indies that they only conquered a few centuries ago at most. And the matter of illegal immigrants is an ethical and political rut. It has nothing to do with the military power of the nations. European nations consider that they are beyond the notions of savagery that would come if they simply gunned down immigrants, which they completely could. However, responsibilities from colonialism and the economical ties between Europe and Africa leads to many people in Africa thinking Europe is a better place for them, and it also leads Europe to take this problem on a more tamed down approach to avoid looking like the bad guys again. But of course I wouldn't expect this kind of reasoning from a country that never had the burden of cleaning its colonial mess, where people think the best solution to immigration is a wall, where thinking that passing aggression as "spreading ideologies" or "manifesting destiny" is acceptable, and whose entire existence depends solely from the existence of France to oppose the British Empire that oppressed it.
22 regions 22 weathers 100000 geologic nature of lands 22 kind of completely different food 350 cheese , for the bigest one a little bit like japan completely differents natures an d ecosystems and the only country in the world with 4 kinds of familly model and capital models no one other country have more than two
Never forget it takes the killing 500 000 of us, (more than all the losses of the USA during WW2 including pacific war) to prove we were wrong. Short perhaps, but not so easy after all.
As a good french, im agree that we have a good located country (between northern europe to southern europe) its good for trade with all the countries, and we have a rich field and rich cities. Thats maybe why less french people immigrated to other country rather than italians, germans or irish. Because we love our nation and our country.
Although it means pretty much the same thing, I believe that by "Germany" you mean Prussia. The modern German nation wouldn't be formed until 1871, AFTER the Franco-Prussian War.
People writing in the commentary on how france has a poor military history but: There were 53 major conflicts in Europe. France was a belligerent in 49 of them, and the United Kingdom in 43. Among the 185 battles that France has fought in the last 800 years, its armies have won 132 of them, and will lost 43, leaving only 10 battles undecided
Having to go back 800 years to pump up your battle statistics just aint gona cut it. The Nation with the best ratio of battle wins verse battle losses in the history of Europe... IS THE UNTIED STATES. hehehe
You know. My French grandfather made a good point. “Because of the events of the 20th century. People view the French as weak, and Germany is their natural enemy” “Yet in truth, they are quite strong, and their enemy is historically England” It’s a shame really. France is a wonderfully powerful country yet because of Germany they are viewed as week.
There were a lot of reasons why France had such rotten luck between 1850 and 1950. The French have actually won most of their wars previously, but the changing geopolitical landscape after the 1848 revolutions put the French on the back foot on the continent. First, they were mostly concerned with their overseas Empire, which naturally made them butt against their traditional enemy, the British. Also, during the nineteenth century, the Germans were impelled to industrialize more quickly, and were more populous than the French, giving the Germans the upper hand initially. Poor military doctrines developed in the early twentieth century caused the utter waste of millions of young Frenchmen in the first half of the First World War, leading to a demographic crisis which put them in a very bad position at the start of World War II. In a way, losing the Empire and integrating with the rest of Europe has put the otherwise geographically blessed French in a far better position than they'd been since the Napoleonic Era.
@@arto4214 Agreed. As an American, I can attest to the utter disaster that our unnecessary wars of choice have been to our nation and our culture. The French (and the Germans!) were wise to steer clear of our folly.
And technically most of metropolitan France is of celtic origins due to the Gallics, the only areas which are not concerned by this are French Flander, French Catalonia, French Basque Country and Corsica.
@@gunterdelura1903 In fact all styles of french music always travelled everywhere in France. And bagpipes come from the Near-East BTW, they travelled up to Ireland, not the other way around.
This isn’t really Irish music, it’s “Celtic” which is a newish genre that combines various different Celtic instruments. It isn’t proper Irish music unless it’s talking shite about the British and/or talking about how great Ireland is.
"If Belgium was only a sea France might dominate the world today" -My history teacher(No joke) No but seriously we love our Belgian brother but they made weird stuff during the past.And unfortunately today with the American French bashing our country have an awful reputation.Just watch some American movies dealing about the history of France like Dunkirk,The king,the DLC policy of EA for battlefield(they included France and Russia,two important nation in DLC)Recently there was a movie speaking about the viking era of Normandy loaded of lies/bashing. This is kind of the bad things with the USA,their leaders do stupid things with their own allies.
@@MegaFrance69 That's alright! The word you'll be looking for is mispronounce then, but again, considering he's not a French speaker that wouldn't be that big of a deal if it were the case
No country "created" alone the UE, it was just a decision taken by the majority of the countries implicated in the WW2. And indeed, the first treaty has been signed in Benelux, a neutral land, even during the WW2.
Clemens AuT Clemens AuT And that’s another mistake he made. Of course there was no unified Germany in 1870, unlike in 1914 and 1940. But the Prussians were also “Germans” , and neither they nor their German allies in what is usually called for convenience “the Franco -Prussian war” went through Belgium in 1870 .
It's so unfair that France also gets those culture and tourism bonuses. It needs a nerf. Anyway, if you want to watch more documentaries about how OP France is, check out all the number of fun historical documentaries on CuriosityStream here: curiositystream.com/reallifelore
ok baguette
Can you do a similar video on Germany?
If they are so op they didnt make so much out of it. I mean right now there economy is on a low and if germany is going on like it is now the will crumble too. Without those two powers the eu ist garbage
And france would have lost ww1 as well without britain and especially the us
@@itsflobygaming6462 What a surprise, some Europeans got cocky, elected populists and wrecked their economies.
France have good natural borders : Alps, Rhine, Seas, Pyrénées and Napoléon.
Charlemagne aussi c'est un bon mur x)
Et Charles Martel hein XD
Well at least this wasn't a Germany joke
Maginot line
Having a military genius and the recources to build a big enough army will result in you nation being very hard to conquer.
France is almost safe from external threats, except for that one weird neighbor who crosses the Rhine every couple years to say an aggressive hello
You mean: "GUTEN TAG!"
The Maginot Line wants to know your location
Seriously, it has no idea
Idiot ! We are in 2021. The only agressive hello would come from France who would anihilate Germany in two weeks.
@@antoinemozart243
Lmao
@@kakalimukherjee3297 .ask every German ! You never learn. Each time the Germans crossed the line it ended badly for them. And this is why ...... drumrolls...France has stolen two German regions and will keep them.....forever.. Because in 2021, Germany is weak and France is strong.
RealLifeLore: Frances geography is almost perfect
Germany: Almost
Lmfao
Maginot Line: *Exists*
Germany: Lets go around it!
It's not hard to conquer france: you nerd only get there since they'll just surrender
@@guyzan You must be american i guess.
Edgy and original.
"The Euro is France's best defense"
Somewhere in France hundreds of nuclear warheads are laughing.
somewhere in the world *
Elles sont quasi toutes réparties dans des sous marins indetectables
Ahah yeah we have a lot of nuclear weapon. The Euro is useless in term of defense, like litteraly
@@deusvult9439 Wealth is the root of all power. So the currency that is the Euro IS the most reliable defense. Don't try to argue against it, your entire life evolves around making money, and the same matters for nations.
Nuclear weaponry is a deterence. You nuke me? I nuke you. It's like sitting in a room full of people you don't like, and a bomb. Everyone can go trigger the bomb, but nobody wants to die.
2:15 ''Massive alps that require nothing to defend.''
Hannibal: *Hold my elephants*
The Chad Rome VS The Virgin Carthage
@@fanoftheterror I think you pulled a reverse card there
Well these dais if you can get air superiority you can land airborn troops on the other side of the alps same for a naval invasion.
These elephants almost all died in the Alpes
@@thibaultlpx7420 no, 50 before the crossing and 27 after
The fact that France fought so much with germany, spain, italy, england in the history and now they're just best friend is kinda funny
they were in they teenage years, they are adults now
As a french, i don't think Emmanuel Macron (French president) like the UK because of Brexit
Brexit is the latest news but problems inside the EU are older than that, there are lots of conflicts inside the alliance due to economics and legal reasons, and even if the benefits are huge I wouldn't say the countries are friends
That's clever, not funny. Europe is stronger than one country on its own.
I think so too
France: oh no PLAINS how do I defend that
Poland: first time?
France: Oh no,not the 1st time,we defend it since 15 centuries. And you Poland,can you tell me how good you defended your country before it was totally erased by Russia and Prussia?
Poland: 🤐
France:And who did make you reborn after defeating both Russia,Prussia and Austria on plains battlefields?
Poland: Well,it's Napoleon!
France: So what do we say?
Poland: Thank you France.
@@dapoun7228 shut up
@@dapoun7228 tbh this is not only true but real history even if it hurts for some ppl
@@dapoun7228 tbf, poland was surrounded by it’s enemy with no geographical advantage… you’re making an unfair comparison, Poland is way more vulnerable than France
@@dapoun7228 Don't forget about World War II, when France failed to meet the alliance's requirements, and in addition, France capitulated earlier than Poland, even though Poland fought on two fronts
French geography is perfect, it’s the living things that might be a problem:
In summer there are mosquitoes and in winter it’s full of English tourists.
As an English tourist who often visits france in the winter.... yes... yes we are a problem.
And sometimes German soldiers visit via Belgium
@@revolzyy ja
English tourists are kind
the only problem with France a beautiful and lovely place is the French.
RealLifeLore: France’s geography is almost perfect!
Greenland: *laughs in Plague Inc*
Damn you Greenland!
Those damn Iceland,Madagascar and Greenland lol
thanks I’m having a breakdown now
@@nassieryusoff but iceland and Madagascar have more people
"Plague Inc"
I don’t understand why so many people hate history and geography, it’s so interesting
it's sound useless to a lot of people
Some people live for tinder, alcohol and soccer.
RLL makes it interesting but the type you learn in school kinda sucks, I took Geography and learning about fossil fuels and the permeability of rocks isn’t all that fun.
@@mclovinjr9086 That sounds more like Geology/Mineralogy, not Geography
Arcturus 97 Well it was split into human and physical Geography, physical was about rocks etc and tectonics. Human was much more interesting.
Alternative title: Why Germany is perfectly situated to invade France
Or vice versa. France has invaded what is now Germany many times through history.
@@maxcream6726 but never alone
@@maxcream6726 here comes the butthurt baguette
@@nerevarchthn6860 Yes alone, in the early 1800's France invaded the Holy Roman Empire, Prussia and Austria. Also at the time of Louis XIV, France invaded a great part of west Germany and the Netherlands.
@@tonyhawk94 with help of spain and austria and italy but napoleon was a great general he wouldve done it alone too so it doesnt matter
Thank you for creating this video. I absolutely LOVE French history, especially during the 16th century. I hope you can create more videos about this wonderful country.
François Ier, le père de notre civilisation.
pros: good terrain, good defense, lots of farmland, geographical armor, rivers
cons: germany
Poland: First time?
@@phx24 same can be said for Russia but if they get in a tight spot they could always relly on the winter.
James colonel winter
Poland
Pros:Nothing
Cons:Everything you say in the comment.
@@Blue-pk4ny Winter, their true ally
“The EU has made Europe united”
*UK has left the chat*
* UK has unsuccessfully been trying to agree on how to leave the chat for now more than 3 years
Nervous *Boris Johnson* :- Hmm, Brexit done (maybe.... um may not)
The EU is scared witless about loosing one of the few net contributes, and is happy to allow the nay sayers to ignore the principles of democracy to impose their will on the majority. I hope they will have the decency to respect Boris Johnson's emphatic mandate.
@@alecblunden8615 The UK will when leaving the EU negotiate new trade deals in desperation. The EU will probably give the UK a fair deal because countries like Netherlands and Sweden would be hurt otherwise as most of UK trade goes to and and comes from the EU. The US however, they will be brutal.
Brexit will hurt the EU, but it has the potential of hurting the UK even more.
@@alecblunden8615 hey Alec, how's that Brexit decision going for you? For 3 and a half years your politicians could not decide on which terms to leave and now you are still part of the EU. Your country has become the laughingstock of Europe with Brexit. But at least you got some new blue passports to be proud of while BoJo the clown sells off your NHS to the US. 😂
0:46 Some letters have been swapped here. The "Siene" is actually the Seine and the "Lorie" is in fact the "Loire".
Yep, it triggered me
You forgot Garrone instead of Garonne
And not Rhone it s Rhône
Yes like 3 big mistakes out of 6! That's really bad
I'm French and this triggered me.
Avouez, les français, ce titre a flatté notre égo et du coup on est là xd
oui.
C’est vrai 😌
Mdr
C'est ça, d'habitude on voit les stéréotypes "baguette" "fromage" "white flag" et tout le bordel mais pas un seul de ces mots dans la vidéo mdr
tellement !
Frances geography is almost perfect. That "almost" is Germany.
Yeah man
69 like lol
No it’s Luxembourg you have to worry about. Wake up sheep
Nexxel yeah, it’s a lie, all these countries doesn’t exists, only Luxembourg controls the entire
Ohhhhhhno he didn't no he did not. Haha Nexxel that was sick.
The famous rivers Siene and Lorie, passing through cities such as Prais or Natnes, famous historical cities, to finally end up in the Altantic and the Engilsh Chanenl
Me : It's funny your accent when you say Loire
He : writes Lorie
I loled. Thanks. Honnestly, there were so many mistakes in the names I suspect it's a joke.
Mon cœur de français souffre face au respect si peu existant
@@obamium4265 T'es pas français, tu viens de Naboo
@@yourfandomsucks7466 tu viens des marais donc toi aussi
God created France, and to balance the perfectness he create the french.
[Edit]: as a french myself i feel bad that i have to do french bashing to get so much likes .
The Belgium*
As you can see on the video 👀
je confirme
Gros ton pseudo abuse pas
The best joke I've heard this year
@@MiCh-wv4qh en + j'ai deja rencontree cette "blaque" dans un livre nul mais belge
RealLifeLore: France's Geography is Almost Perfect
Otto von Bismarck: Yes, almost.
That weird Austrian German: Ja, have you ever heard my "Ardennen Autoban"?
I'm just watching this to stroke my French ego.
Pareil haha
Im watching this to stroke my German ego lmao
@@Morizzoo HAHAHA it also work I think
I'm happy that Germany is now our biggest ally (imo)
**Tousse**
1870 😂😂😂
Real Life Lore: “France’s geography is almost perfect”
Comments: “I bet I could make a funny and original joke out of this”
Let's Nerf Them
I bet they think they're the funniest comments in whole youtube but honestly they suck ass.
@@sebu46 You must be frech
I *_highkey_* agree with you
That's kinda true
"Why Iran's Geography sucks"
"Why Japan's Geography sucks"
"Why Fance's Geography is "almost perfect"
Germany would agree
Britain and Rome would also Agree
@Subh彼氏 Fance*
Fance
Fance is where fancy stuff comes from
6:50 Switzerland is like „Wtf is going on why is everyone looking at me“ xD
😂😂😂 Einfach us allem rushalte!
we just clap our hands and see the profit when our big brothers fights 😜🇨🇭
"Ardennes is really beautiful and accessible" -The 50 Wehrmacht divisions
333 likes?
Aakash Naik heck yeah
lol
Aakash Naik lol the Ardennes isn’t even that hard to cross. There are mostly some hills and forests.
@@don_p7546 have you tried walking through those hills and forests
Ah yes. Lorie, the famous River of France, not to be confused with Loire, the famous 2000's french singer.
In France we say Loire for Lorie
J'adore😭
ahaha je suis mort!!!
Never heard of any
famous? Never heard of both.
France's northern plain is its only geographical flaw
Germany: say no more fam
Sharp Though 530 likes and no comments so I said HI BOIS
@@ballooncast2056 this was 12 hrs ago and so im the 2nd reply but i wanted to be 1st
E
Fam
Stop please
-France's Geography is Almost Perfect.
-Nein!
Almost means: its Perfect, but has Germany as neighbour.
Erwin Johannes Rommel and Spain
Doffy Rob Excuse me? Okay Maybe in Word war 1
Doffy Rob Without Lend-Lease and Britain or USA France would easily have beaten. And 2WW you should agree that Germany overran the French. Without Hitler as an idiot who attacks Soviet Union, France would be Großdeutschland today.
@Doffy Rob Open your book. Germany startet existing in 1871
@Doffy Rob Excuses me Wtf
I'm a simple french, I see "France" and "perfect" in the same sentence, I click.
Edit : Finished the video, thanks for your work.
@Klantvinder.com Strike on monday. I'll go thuesday.
Pareil. J'ai pas pu résister 😖😥🇨🇵😭
@Klantvinder.com and yet, the French people have the highest productivity per inhabitant with their 35h a week ... Sounds like the world got something wrong
still wasn't good enough to stop the german advance in 1940 xdddd
"France is not at all perfect."
That good enough for you?
Germany declares war on France...
Belgium: "Awww shit here we go again"
If you dont know, let me tell you that Begium was created as buffee state between france and germany... It has no other history..
@@Asiandramas99 not fully accurate before Napoleon we were the Spanish Netherlands, before that we were the Bourghondian Netherlands, couple of Netherland iterations, short time France, Middle empire, Caroline/Frankish Empire and before that Roman empire and before that celtic and germanic tribes. Short answer most of middle ages the power centre of the Netherlands untill The Dutch-Spanish war
oh no some parachutist are in the sky, we can't get them !!!!! let's give up !
@@Asiandramas99 “buffer state”
@@trrt2719 actually in the war of Spanish succession you went from Spanish to Austrian and it stayed like that until 1815
Gg to the guy who wrote the name of rivers and managed to misspell both Loire and Seine.
AND Garonne
Every country in Europe : omg France is so hard to attack
Germany : it’s free real estate
It had been the opposite for half a millenium, but somehow people can only remember about what happened past 1870
@@Crisyx91 I don t think you heard about a man with a mustache from Austria in 1940
@@Andrei-eb2du isn't that past 1870?
Germany can't do shit against France nowadays
@@unemusiqueunjour Neither can France against Germany
Why Belgiums geography is perfect
For german wehrmacht divisions
Belgium AKA the flat country, why is it named that way? Because everyone just rolled over it
In French we call it the "paillasson" and I think it is beautifull
@@quelqunderandom6143 the netherlands is flatter
for the protectorate sorry i don’t speak baguette
@@fullertheo4881 i Wanted to say
You're life is a joke but jokes have meaning
France’s geography is almost perfect
Airplanes: enter the chat
I feel that this is a joke only airplane pilots would understand.
Guys with jetpacks have entered the match.
Miraculous wielders have entered the chat
Nukes:enter the chat
Adolf hitler join chat
No one:
Litterally the entire comment section: *GeRmAny*
It’s not “no one” then..
Hi from Lower Saxony
*nOrMiE*
Talking about the almost perfect defenses of France without germany? Not gonna happen.
Zonoka those people didn’t even watch the video
**INSERT TYPICAL FRANCE JOKES HERE**
France surrender, now laugh
@@pisaks6782 Ha²
baguette army
17th of septh
I played Prussens Gloria in Paris. Now France's flag doesn't have red and blue anymore.
Every french watching this be like : 😎
Tempomatics Every French reading the comments:😡
@@maxthebaguette5668 Probably. I'm not French I'm just imagining their reaction.
😂😂😂😂😂😂of course
En effet
Ça c'est moi
Ngl I love the music you put in the background. Great video !
Greetings from Poland
Which has the worst geography ever xD
Nah man your country is amazing greetings from france
Manstein : Agreed
Except when you're army is composed of winged hussards horse-charging the plains.
Then, it's perfect
Nah, just the worst allies
Belarus: c:
France: My Geography is almost perfect.
Germany: I’m about to r--
Caesar: oh baby let’s get weird with it.
Joe
A good one, congrats
Why did i read this hearing austin powers' voice?
Ladybug, Chat Noir, and other Miraculous wielders: *Allow us to introduce ourselves*
France: I'm the most protected country when it comes to my borders
Switzerland: *Hold my Alpes*
Afghanistan: France (Napoleon I think?), Russia, and the USA couldn’t
laughs in lichtenstein
@@pancakefacessyrup3540 Thats right, Liechtenstein is like the final boss. Switzerland is kind of like their shield.
@@aronbouma4755 or someone could just rent it for 50k and then it falls
@@johnycakes6613 nope, about Afghanistan, it's GB, Russia, a coalition that the leader prefeared to put the means to win (and succeeded in creating a beast) in another country, USA
I always thought the US was extremely well-placed. Possibly the most strategically placed country on Earth. The US doesn't share borders with neighboring threats (Canada hardly invests in its military because the US is so powerful, and Mexico, no offense, is too poor to be powerful). With those 2 countries not being threats, and more so allies, it takes the crossing of the entire Pacific or Atlantic oceans to get to the US. This puts most militaries at a distinct disadvantage, if they ever wanted to go on the offensive. The US also has the most powerful Navy in the whole world, and can defend its coasts very easily.
Ask Biden, he found the perfect way to have the USA invaded by all the thugs central and southern Americas don't want.
@@thierrydesu Speak for yourself QuackAnon, or is it MAGAss, or probably both.
@@nedludd7622 We had the same kind of president that let the enemy invade us but he's been removed by the military, just like Biden. We are now waiting for Donald Trump to announce that the world is free.
@@thierrydesu u mean all the thugs that supply the supermassive u.s drug demand lmao
Theres also the behring straight which the u.s's greatest rival owns...
_France and Germany go to war_
BeNeLux: aw shit, here we go again
How about bullying Switzerland the next time?
@@ashaydwivedi420 Not if you want to keep your money
@@ashaydwivedi420 Switzerland has ridiculous defenses
@@sinoskopyaskyit is a literal fortress the size of a country
Should have let us build the Maginot line... Or is too hard to hold the Rhine ?
France: we are protected
Germany: ALMOST protected
France : this is 2019
Germany : we have Hitler
France : 🤯
*Vichy France has entered the chat*
Also USA (d-day)
Napoleon: Wrong, ardennes are here to protect Germany
Lucien Aras I don't think Napoleon's tactics would work on WW2
"France is easy to defend"
*Laughs in German*
Belgium: **Nervous Sweating**
*Also in Roman*
*Also laughs in Norse*
Fun Fact: A house in Stalingrad held out longer than the entirety of France in WW2. That shows how easily France was defeated by the Germans. In the time it took Germany to defeat France they barely crossed a single street in Russia.
@@ezra5788 World War II casualties of the Soviet Union: 27 Million.
It wasn't exactly easy and quick to stop the Nazis.
And if it wasn't for the English Channel, GB would have fallen just as fast as France in 1939.
1:41 love the RIP above Notre Dame
French names : *exist*
RealLifeLore's writing : Reality can be whatever I want
*Lorie*
*Siene*
Mercure250 *_gArRoNe_*
This is just his way of getting back at xQc
Totem what is xQc doe
@@asmallyoutube A Canadian streamer who speaks french and English but he mispronounces almost every word in the English alphabet
Totem oh. someone needs to make an MV on "Siene", "Lorie" and "Garrone". Not like K-Pop music doe.
France: My geography is perfect!
Germany: Hold my tanks!
hold my blitzkrieg
Ricardo Silva hold my gas
More like
France: My Geography is perfect
Germany: Almost perfect.
Guns
@@RicardoSilva-du8qc The blitzkrieg is not really a real strategy, it's popular because some random English broadcasts make a documentary about it. As Hitler himself claimed it to be "absolute idiotic."
Much love to our french neighbors!
Once sworn enemies and now brothers till the end!!!
-Germany
🇩🇪🇫🇷
Love and respect German civilization, from France ! And our greatest allie indeed!!
Let's confederate !
@@pulco50 The Beer Wine and Food Nation
Love from India🇮🇳 to France🇫🇷 and Germany🇩🇪.
Thank you 👐
This is really interesting! I'm always fascinated by how we took the goldilocks geography of Europe and completely squandered it by beating each other up for a couple thousand years solid.
About the ww2 references: France's geography is ALMOST perfect (hi, Germany). Now let's talk about demography.
1914 : France: 41,630,000 , Germany: 65,860,000
1940 : France: 40,690,000 , Germany: 69,838,000
France used to be *by far* the most populated country of Europe, and that's one of the reasons why France could resist (and invade) most of Europe during the French revolution wars and the Napoleonic wars. But this situation ended ~after the Napoleonic era and France underwent a lasting demographic winter, while other European countries' population increased a lot. Despite massive immigration starting in the 1870s, it didn't change much (there were even years at the end of 19th c. when France actually lost population (more deaths than births) IIRC).
Thanks to CGP Grey, I know now why France’s greography is truly the best: IT’S AN HEXAGON.
The Bestagon
German: Vue...
Non c’est une étoile ⭐️ ! A star
Me : wait its all France ?!
Napoléon : *always has been*
Laughs in german
@@DrCleff-bp4vj laugh in De Grande Armée
@PikoraGhoul • *Habsburger ring a bell?
@PikoraGhoul • clovis was germanic at first, he conquered gallia which became la Francie
@Marshal Floron Didn't Hitler conquer more land though?
“Berlin to Paris in one tank!” 😂😂😂
Hmmm , why you hate france ? Maybe because you never live in a good place that why
@jean ford I am British daddy , and I am just saying why people hate good places like London, Paris, New York, I just know why because they live in a bad place like Germany, who will want to live there? I don't know who will want to live there
@@pesghots2650 we got beer, bread and a relitevly good social system. Well and thats it all there isnt more. But still germany is a better place than countries like the usa or other third world countries
Napoléon to take Berlin
@@pesghots2650 your not British you cant even construct a good english sentence "maybe because you never live a good place" you type like someone who has learned english as a second language
Germany: “Are you sure about that?”
Lol
*takes over the whole of France in six weeks days*
that's what "almost" is for lol
That one brings back memories
@Sorago Doreno ok boomer
RealLifeLore: France's Geography is almost perfect
Germany: Its free real estate
Delicious. Finnaly some good fucking foo- LAND.... land of a sovereingn state.... im not planning to eat it.... i promise
--Germany, basicaly in every centurie
I knew there's going to be a comment glorifying the fact that Germany told the world that France's geography isn't perfect at all. Lmao
This made my day lol 😂
WWI and WWII: let me introduce myself
John Healy is British....his army ran from the fight in 1940 like the cowards they were. Couldn't pull that move off in Singapore in 1942 so they surrendered en masse without as much as firing a shot. Go away!
France: Only has one defensive weak point.
Also France: Repeatedly fails to defend that weak point.
Seriously. How did they not just build a wall (like China) or a series of forts!? (Apparently they did try the latter, but much too late) Seriously, how could they be so incompetent?
Leo Velli Because unlike Manchuria and Mongolia, the rhine was a very rich and prosperous area of land, since the end of Charlemagne’s empire France has had some claim to it and most of the wars in modern civilization were for control of the rhine
@@MerkhVision That area is the beginning of the most densely populated area of Europe, and consequently one its most productive and powerful. No chance the people of that area would let such military presence continue, just look at Okinawa today. Compared to the Great Wall of China, which was built north of Beijing, itself around surrounded by useless unproductive mountains on the west, north and east, and extending the wall further west towards the steppes where only the tiny number of horse nomads go.
Belgium was additionally supposed to let the Maginot expand into their border with Germany, not along their border with France. They chose to be like the Dutch who in WWI remained neutral. Thinking that Germany would similarly respect that sort of neutrality again, and also choosing the UK as their preferred ally over France, they felt protected enough. Unfortunately, the British lacked army, and despite the splendid navy and air force, they couldn't even begin retaking continental Europe until the Americans arrived.
@@MerkhVision since the middle ages that area was stuffed full of castles, continuing into massive amounts of fortifications in the Renaissance and early modern period. The Maginot Line (which I'm assuming you're thinking of) even incorporated some of these, as they were still so big, useful and imposing over the local geography. They just happened to be fortifying it against every single super power that wasn't Britain or Spain, so it's honestly crazy the WW2 blitz hadn't happened more than once in a thousand years xD
@@MerkhVision well during Louis XIV reign, they builded a big serie of forteresses, called the iron belt, who was extremely effective up until the discovery of dynamite
My country I’m so proud ❤️🇫🇷
proud of doing what
@@raayds9589 of being French obviously
@@raayds9589 I mean I’m french too and feel proud even though I didn’t do anything except BE french. Kinda stupid concept but nationalism i guess, same goes for all other countries
The geography is so good that the 7th Panzer Division decided to take a tour
"Impenetrable geographical armor"
Really? They did nothing to stop Gandhi's nukes and giant death robots.
“The world is the problem, the atomic bomb is the answer.” - Mahatma Gandhi
What the fak?
Mckenzie Africa Civ VI reference
@@Neseku It's way older than Civ 6
L F it’s a Civ reference all the same
France is a country where you can spend a full month visiting a beautiful town every single day and where you can ski in the morning and relax at the beach in the afternoon
@ADRIAN CLAUDIU SOFRONEA no it's not
@ADRIAN CLAUDIU SOFRONEA in what way.
Sounds like California, only with fewer homeless people
You can do that in Italy:) and since beach can be on a lake, we can for sure say Austria and Switzerland too, and any other country that has mountains high enough to ski in summer:)
france is also a country where you could get your head chopped off as a noble in the 1800's due to a revolution due to people not being able to eat due to seven years of war with the uk and prussia
this video gives the lession that sometimes, freindship is the best armor
i just read fun-jokes about war between France and Germany. but let us say, we are happy that we are living in peace now.
Love to France from Germany!
Well said and true
Why does have French boulevards so many trees? ...Because German soldiers like to march in the shade. 🔥🤫🤭
The Scottish sounding music in a video about France throws me off a bit.
micksowagger 💀
that's not scottish sounding music, it's medieval sounding music
As a Frenchman, I'm glad he didn't put dumb accordion music.
@@FairyCRat Now I will complain why he DIDN'T add corny accordion music
What is the name of this music anyway?
American : "FrAnCe SUrRenDerEd iN WW2"
French : " *Without us, you would be praising a certain queen* "
Jiziba Macron?
@@annoyingbstard9407 ?
True but, without us you’d be under rule of short mustache man
@@somethingsomething2100 And without you, Germany just broke on the Eastern front 2 week after.
And without a Spanish double agent, you'll be obliterate in Normandy by Rommel.
And without Churchill, you'll divide France like Germany, because you were here to conquer, not to liberate.
Without them, you would be praising a lot of kings :jerry: (You should be thankfull of crippling detbs, ya ingrants piece of baguette)
The situation at 05:35 was even worse. Following the German invasion of The Netherlands and Belgium, the Allied forces moved north, into both attacked countries, which was just what the Germans were hoping for.
With most of their forces north of the French border, following the German breakthrough (or better 'sail through' because there were almost no forces stationed in the Ardennes Region) most of the Allied forces' supply lines were cut off and they were being surrounded from the north and south.
Therefore the only direction they could fall back to, was the Belgian coast, ending up in Dunkirk.
Fun drinking game : take a shot everytime you see a comment about Germany.
Challenge #2 : Double the portion if it's not funny
but all of them are funny
I'mma get alcohol poisoning from just the first challenge. The second one would replace my whole bloodstream with alcohol
@@electricangel4488 none* they are basically all the same
Challenge #3 : 1 shot everytime you see a french guy complaining abouut the comments mocking them
I am already drunk
What gives people feelings of power:
Money
Status
Starting a civilization game in France
1st comment lolololol
I find the east coast of America to be better, or the Middle East.
What’s sad is then you get nuked by Gandhi in civilization
Well, in Civ6, france is pretty bad, a lot worse than Irl
On a non-diplomatic/military side, it is also pretty much perfect.
The amount of diversity for such a relatively small country is astonishing. You can visit France for almost any reason or any activity. Not to even mention the amount of History, landmarks, culture, etc (which are not really about geography), France has some of the most beautiful mountains in the World, the Atlantic coast is mighty, beautiful, wild, while the Mediterranean coast is idyllic, glamourous, etc. The countryside is amazing too. We almost have every type of landscape. Cliffs, oceans, paradisiacal islands, the Alps, you name it. Believe it or not, we even have a small Colorado-type of Canyon in the South. Economically speaking, it's the only country having direct access over the Channel to the North, to the Atlantic Ocean to the West & to the Mediterranean Sea to the South. VIVE LA FRANCE! 🇫🇷⚜️
Thank you for stroking my french ego.
you made my ego as big as the Everest. merci
California better lol
@@Sticktothemodels California is cool & all, & the U.S. in general! But everything is just « new World. » I’ve lived in North America for a total of 2 years, it’s awesome for many reasons, some spectacular landscapes & impressive cities, but you miss the vibe, the History, the culture. You just miss gazing at a 800 year-old Cathedral while eating French cuisine at a terrasse, drinking Champagne (I’m from Champagne) & overhearing some monumental French songs. You feel like every town is a shopping area/business park. Not much compared to old & iconic places such as Chamonix, Menton, Saint-Guirec, Reims, Paris, Collioure, Lac Léman, les Chateaux de la Loire, I mean you name it, night & day.
@@metube6299 it happened twice in history, mostly because of awful leaders.
France has the most aesthetically pleasing flag colors. I wish I could fly it, but I’m not french.
As somebody who laughs at the satire against the French, if you ask me for a serious appraisal of France’s military history, I’d have to say the US still has to reach their level.
Now a lot of Americans will be upset by that, but let’s put it in context.
France, or the region known as France, gave the Romans a run for their money, only being beaten by a man by the name of Julius Caesar and some lucky turns. Jump a few centuries and they were among the major players in the Crusades. Constant war between major powers like England, Spain and Germany show they were no pushover. Napoleon is among the top ten greatest generals in history and is studied at most military academies. I’m not sure how many American generals would hold that honour, except Patton, that guy was a genius. Yes they did crumble fairly quickly in WW2, but as I’ve said in other posts, they were outmanoeuvred not defeated. The French had built a line of forts expecting a frontal assault and Germany used the black forest to drive their tanks right past them. This was a massive gamble on Germany’s part. Just a bridge down or a tank overturning would’ve turned the whole exercise into a disaster. In fact, due to the courage of French soldiers, outmatched and outgunned, the British had a successful evacuation at Dunkirk. Then for the next few years, the French Resistance made life hell for the Germans. It was the French who contributed valuable intelligence and support on D-Day and certainly were as much a part of that amazing offensive as the British, Commonwealth and American forces were.
With more than 2000 years of being notorious warriors, the French have a great military history, and nothing to be ashamed of.
Thanks for this comment, Brits are really good too even though I hate to admit it lol
What you talking about they cant even defend their own country from unarmed illegal immigrants, and you talking about reaching level... lol, anyways you are welcome for saving your ass twice. I didnt see Europeans fighting in pacific.
@@hukumbra and thats where youre wrong , ok maybe not french participation because it appears germany did the work before the start of the japanese expansion and vichy france gave up indochina to japan after the peace deal, however the brits were there too alongside indian (and netherland east indies forces? ) , plus let me remind you who was left in europe to go fight in the pacific, the netherland and france surrendered and they prefer to take back their mainland logic, portugal who were also in asia stayed neutral leaving only britain, the commonwealth, USA island and the deutch east indies, im not saying the usa didnt made the most effort in asia however asking who were there to fight in the pacific: when the entire europe was pretty much done for when africa was in a turmoil when the atlantic ocean and the battle of england were forcing what was left of europe millitary strenght to resist, all that while the usa proclaimed neutrality and came in the war as a fresh country with the most industrial potential in the world, thats just unfair. If the US were to be invaded , yea its nearly impossible but imagine such a situation happened, would you bother to go fight on the other side of the world against another ennemy putting most of their war effort into taking whats left of you or would you rather do everything you can to take back your country
@@hukumbra "I didn't see Europeans fighting in the pacific"
I didn't see Europeans fighting in the ocean that is opposite of their continent, where most of their armies were mobilized out of their colonies to fight the threat on their home continent that has been their world for centuries prior to that little part of the world called Indochina or East Indies that they only conquered a few centuries ago at most.
And the matter of illegal immigrants is an ethical and political rut. It has nothing to do with the military power of the nations. European nations consider that they are beyond the notions of savagery that would come if they simply gunned down immigrants, which they completely could. However, responsibilities from colonialism and the economical ties between Europe and Africa leads to many people in Africa thinking Europe is a better place for them, and it also leads Europe to take this problem on a more tamed down approach to avoid looking like the bad guys again.
But of course I wouldn't expect this kind of reasoning from a country that never had the burden of cleaning its colonial mess, where people think the best solution to immigration is a wall, where thinking that passing aggression as "spreading ideologies" or "manifesting destiny" is acceptable, and whose entire existence depends solely from the existence of France to oppose the British Empire that oppressed it.
Nice comment. France is the biggest European country by size for a good reason.
RLL: "France's geography is almost perfect"
Belgium: *exists
Germany: "I'm about to end this man's whole career."
Donkey twist, Belgium ended Germany’s whole career
original dude
"Belgium doesnt want french soldiers on its border"
France : be a lot cooler if you did.
Germany: *Staring behind curtains*
I'm French, but even I couldn't resist.
This xD... I was thinking the same... Where were you dear when they hailed their way to this side? XD
Video: France's geography is almost perfect
Hitler: Almost
Ah yes I like my RUclips recommendations 😳🇫🇷
Didn’t expect you here
Who are you
pareil 😂
Me too
22 regions
22 weathers
100000 geologic nature of lands
22 kind of completely different food
350 cheese , for the bigest one
a little bit like japan
completely differents natures an d ecosystems
and
the only country in the world
with 4 kinds of familly model and capital models
no one other country have more than two
France and Germany: Epic fight about their terrains.
Spain: haha tomatoes go brrrrrrrr
Germany: "It's show time"
Sword Art Online: u wot m8
Also Germany (but in Russia): "It's snow time"
Why did you include anime to this...
Never forget it takes the killing 500 000 of us, (more than all the losses of the USA during WW2 including pacific war) to prove we were wrong.
Short perhaps, but not so easy after all.
Ladybug, Chat Noir, and other Miraculous wielders: *Allow us to introduce ourselves*
As a good french, im agree that we have a good located country (between northern europe to southern europe) its good for trade with all the countries, and we have a rich field and rich cities. Thats maybe why less french people immigrated to other country rather than italians, germans or irish. Because we love our nation and our country.
Napoleon: My natural borders are Spain, Germany, Austria, Italy
Germany: Do I have a word to say?...
Napoleon: No!
Germany: ...
Hehe
Spain ? Portugal you mean ?
Although it means pretty much the same thing, I believe that by "Germany" you mean Prussia. The modern German nation wouldn't be formed until 1871, AFTER the Franco-Prussian War.
@@eddiejc1 Didnt Prussia win Against French after there United all German states?
@@janl5879 that's after napoleon tho
Lol sorry to point this out, the river is spelled “Loire”
Lol sorry to point this out, but no one actually gives a shit
@@NigwardTheSquid Literate people do
@@Drakeblood97 Sorry to break it to you, but typos and common spelling errors do not mean illiteracy
Loo-wa
Aquitaine Mapping he wrote it like the french singer
The Germans also thought France's geography was perfect.
Actually France declared war on Germany, dont twist history
@@bayern1806 after Germany was threatening to take over all of Europe but ok
Maginot line: *exist*
Ardennes: I'm bout to end this man's whole carier
Mazi German : *exists*
the US supplies : I'm bout to end this whole man's career.
Maginot Line Project : exists
Belgium : I'm bout to end this man's whole carier
How is this meme still around its not even funny
Ken o Man it’s really not
People writing in the commentary on how france has a poor military history but:
There were 53 major conflicts in Europe. France was a belligerent in 49 of them, and the United Kingdom in 43.
Among the 185 battles that France has fought in the last 800 years, its armies have won 132 of them, and will lost 43, leaving only 10 battles undecided
Most of it is Napoleon, they mostly had good allies, it is true tho
England: smirk intensifies
Amen to this
Thank you !
Having to go back 800 years to pump up your battle statistics just aint gona cut it. The Nation with the best ratio of battle wins verse battle losses in the history of Europe... IS THE UNTIED STATES. hehehe
*France's geography is almost perfect*
Germany: Hold my beer.
Now the beer thing makes sense
This is the real beer for tgis time
@@21sauwsage53 better call it "Bier"
@@mates.8988 Bräu
Proud to be French and live in this country :) ❤🇨🇵💜
Germany: "Allow me to introduce myself"
French Nukes: so that new city-sized parking of yours where do you want it? Dresden or Hambourg?
Have you heard about our lord and saviour, the blitzkrieg?
@@itstheeconomy2101 boooo nice try
lol
@@itstheeconomy2101 the u.s supplys french nukes
You know. My French grandfather made a good point.
“Because of the events of the 20th century. People view the French as weak, and Germany is their natural enemy”
“Yet in truth, they are quite strong, and their enemy is historically England”
It’s a shame really. France is a wonderfully powerful country yet because of Germany they are viewed as week.
Not really beceause of Germany, more beceause of USA when France denounced their wars in some strangers countries... french bashing is just propaganda
It's quite funny because France conquered Germany way faster during the napoleonic wars
There were a lot of reasons why France had such rotten luck between 1850 and 1950. The French have actually won most of their wars previously, but the changing geopolitical landscape after the 1848 revolutions put the French on the back foot on the continent. First, they were mostly concerned with their overseas Empire, which naturally made them butt against their traditional enemy, the British. Also, during the nineteenth century, the Germans were impelled to industrialize more quickly, and were more populous than the French, giving the Germans the upper hand initially. Poor military doctrines developed in the early twentieth century caused the utter waste of millions of young Frenchmen in the first half of the First World War, leading to a demographic crisis which put them in a very bad position at the start of World War II. In a way, losing the Empire and integrating with the rest of Europe has put the otherwise geographically blessed French in a far better position than they'd been since the Napoleonic Era.
@@arto4214 Agreed. As an American, I can attest to the utter disaster that our unnecessary wars of choice have been to our nation and our culture. The French (and the Germans!) were wise to steer clear of our folly.
You guys hav alot of time on your hands
No one:
Not even Dublin:
Real life lore: Plays Irish music in a video about France!
Abdu Omar It's Celtic music, we listen similar sounds in Bretagne.
And technically most of metropolitan France is of celtic origins due to the Gallics, the only areas which are not concerned by this are French Flander, French Catalonia, French Basque Country and Corsica.
@@gunterdelura1903 In fact all styles of french music always travelled everywhere in France.
And bagpipes come from the Near-East BTW, they travelled up to Ireland, not the other way around.
This isn’t really Irish music, it’s “Celtic” which is a newish genre that combines various different Celtic instruments.
It isn’t proper Irish music unless it’s talking shite about the British and/or talking about how great Ireland is.
its not irish music, learn more about French Music Culture, Bin Laden :)
This is purely fascinating If you can enjoy the history and geography without your subjective biases against countries.
"France has a lot of flatlands and is easy to travel across"
Panzer divisions: *Very interesting*
Very flat in the other direction too! 30 Years Wars, Battle of Iena... French were kicking German ass before it went the other way!
@@tonyz7216 just as expected
RealLifeLore: France’s Geography is almost perfect.
Germany: Hold my Blitzkrieg.
Russia: hold my sickle
Ladybug, Chat Noir, and other Miraculous wielders: *Allow us to introduce ourselves*
Asterix & co: Sit back down, sonny and keep brewing my *magic potion*
Evan Pangaribuan cringe*
@@shurik3nz346 why?
''Why France's Geography is Almost Perfect''
Germany: well yes, but actually no
na ja, aber tatsachlich nein
key word, ALMOST
They got that "almost" part figured out, too. By this point, everybody does.
@@shindari "everybody" who's that?
Stop with this joke it’s cringe
France: I have the perfect geography
Germany: Are you sure about that?
"If Belgium was only a sea France might dominate the world today"
-My history teacher(No joke)
No but seriously we love our Belgian brother but they made weird stuff during the past.And unfortunately today with the American French bashing our country have an awful reputation.Just watch some American movies dealing about the history of France like Dunkirk,The king,the DLC policy of EA for battlefield(they included France and Russia,two important nation in DLC)Recently there was a movie speaking about the viking era of Normandy loaded of lies/bashing.
This is kind of the bad things with the USA,their leaders do stupid things with their own allies.
Or the film "The last samurai" which was a French and in the film an american lol
The problem of France is that french people are so full of themselves
*Belgian Laughts* Yes sure, if the french people and culture doesn't exist as it is now, maybe
You may be mistaking insult for ignorance or indifference.
@@chevaldarsaut3770 Some of them yes. But as much as some Americans or British can be. Or others... No generalities please
it hurt when you misspelled Seine, Loire and Garonne :(
He didnt misspelled
@@MegaFrance69 he wrote Siene, Lorie and Garrone: he misspelled
look it up and you'll see
It's ok, he didn't mispelled Meuse because well, it's mostly Belgian and Dutch :jerry:
@@Cosmilk my bad i dont tspeak english good i thought misspelled was saying it out loud
@@MegaFrance69 That's alright! The word you'll be looking for is mispronounce then, but again, considering he's not a French speaker that wouldn't be that big of a deal if it were the case
"France created the European Union."
So _that_ explains Brexit.
Benelux was really the start of the EU.
No country "created" alone the UE, it was just a decision taken by the majority of the countries implicated in the WW2. And indeed, the first treaty has been signed in Benelux, a neutral land, even during the WW2.
Mesk I think it did start out as an evolution of trade agreements between Germany and France tough
@@Etherfallss treaty of rome ?
@@victormeas450 Yes, it's called the ECSC (European Coal and Steel Community)
6:09 man, he really whipped that boat around
On the map you misspelled “Seine”, “Loire “ and “Garonne”. And the Germans didn’t go through Belgium in 1870 to invade France.
true. they actually used the belgian border as a flank protection
yeah cuz the Germans where also the best and unstopable like Moltke deafeted the French in every battle they fought
Back then it was Prussia, he means the Franco Prussian war
Clemens AuT Clemens AuT And that’s another mistake he made. Of course there was no unified Germany in 1870, unlike in 1914 and 1940. But the Prussians were also “Germans” , and neither they nor their German allies in what is usually called for convenience “the Franco -Prussian war” went through Belgium in 1870 .
He said the plains of northern France when talking about the Franco Prussian war, not Belgium.