American Reacts Why France is Secretly the World's 5th Biggest Country
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- Опубликовано: 13 апр 2023
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Historically, France has been the European land power, instead of Germany, as some people may think, funny enough, in 1700 France had a population of 21 million while Russia had 13 million, that's pretty crazy by today's standards, Imagine if France had 200 million today
Both have been the dominant land power at some point in time. France 500-940 and 1500-1850 and Germany 940-1500 and 1850-1945. Merovech Franks dominated Europe till the Saxon Otto I started the HRE, The 30 years war ended German dominance and Louis XIV made "France great Again". Napoleon III lost European hegemony to Bismark.
@@motionpictures6629 Germany wasn't really a thing between 940-1500, mostly an absurd regrouping of Princes, it was Austria which was the boss in central europe and the main land rival of France
@@16psyco "The Holy Roman Empire of German Nations" was basically Germany. Germany is still an absurd grouping of Princes (Minister-Presidents), that's called federalism. The USA was a Nation during WW1, They had to ask the states to send soldiers, and had civil wars and states that fought for power. The first Habsburg King was crowned in 1438. From 940 till 1438 Germany was dominated by Saxony and the offspring of the first German Emperor Otto I.
@@16psyco France wasn't a rival to Germany at the time. Burgundy was one of the 4 Kingdoms that made up the HRE and during the 100 years war, France wasn't really a country, but a collection of states fighting each other with multiple Kings and civil wars inside civil wars. The whole war between Richard Lionheart and Prince John happened in France during that time, Two English princesses and their mother fighting a civil war about the ownership of 1/3 of France, Germany was far more of a thing than France.
@@motionpictures6629 “France” was not always “France”. In Charlemagne’s time it was “parts of France and parts of Germany”. His kingdom was one of the first to re-establish a post-Roman Empire large entity. Germany had petty kingdoms until the 1870s; Italy was constantly invaded and disunited likewise. The Austro-Hungarian empire was large but its location meant it was not a threat to France. Spain was occupied by Muslims for 800 plus years. England was focused on expanding within the British Isles and wasted time trying to occupy parts of France.
The Netherlands got rich from trade but had the problem of occupation by Spain, and it was too tiny to rival France.
Spain got rich from the New World but squandered its wealth on continental war.
England’s population and economy grew from wool and trade and being hard to invade, but France had a larger economy and population during many centuries. It had a centralized government and good farmland and some far-sighted royals once it unified.
So yeah France was THE power house in Europe until the industrial revolution, when England took the lead and Germany after...
Regarding french Guiana, you miss the point. It is not about ressources. It is about setting an example and protecting the rainforest. Not exploiting the forest is not good from an economic point of view, but not everything is about money, right?
Imagine, Napoleon Never sells Louisiana territory :')
It means my country France 🇫🇷, would be bigger lol 😂😂😂😂😂
@@luamluag4100 C'est surtout qu'on casserais bien les noix au US a leur couper leur territoire en deux
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I mean yes but the US was all about manifesting it's destiny and it was cut off from France by the British navy so high chance it would have been acquired by less savoury means, by the British themselves or maybe given independence in the peace deals. Who knows but I doubt it would have ever stayed French while Europe was at war with napoleon
We can speak a lot of others languages off course.
But we are French 😊 and if you come in our country, it’s better for you to TRY to speak french. And we will be kind with you.
It’s normal. If you go in a foreign country, and you don’t make the effort to speak (even trying ) the local language, it’s an offense.
That’s why the urban legend tell « French are rude and speak only french » ( yes ! We saw you English people !!!) 😊.
Bien joué mec 👌🏻
Nice j’aime bien ça :)
Exactly I am French I live in Greece most of the year and so I try to learn Greek and speak Greek as much I can, even if most of the people here speaks English I will feel ashamed if I wont try. To me, people that travel abroad and don’t try to speak the local language are like modern colons 😅 It’s good to show respect to the land and the people that is welcoming you
T'es d'une sensibilité, quel bouffon tu es...
There is also the fact that many things that are considered perfectly normal to many Anglophone tourists (like, say, starting a conversation without a proper greeting, treating service personnel like their personal slaves, etc.) is considered extremely rude and disrespectful to the French... and the French respond to rudeness with even more rudeness, and to disrespect with even more disrespect.
One of the things I enjoy about France is that there is almost no Karen-like behaviour, because it is systematically punished rather than rewarded.
About the Rainbow Warrior,
the murder was "accidental". ofc french agents did plant a bomb to sink the ship but it was meant to be harmless : the ship was empty when they got off and then the photographer came back in because he had forgotten something and wasn't supposed to be here when they detonated the bomb
If this boat wasn't blown up at port empty it would have 100% got blown up by a nuclear explosion in French waters and the entire crew with it, they would not have stopped the test, you do not fuck with French nuclear dissuasion period.
Et oui, ce n'était qu'un accident, il n'était pas supposé revenir sur le bateau, avant l'explosion.
yes, it was only an accident, he was not suposed to come back on the boat before the explosion
Les barbouzes à l'ancienne
The reason Canada doesnt have that high of a EEZ is because of the projection used for the map. It's Mercator's projection which amplifies the sizes of countries the further north you get. So the EEZ area in french Polynesia is actually VERY big.
SOOOO MUCH BIG YOU CAN'T IMAGINE
Hi from French Guiana, love the channel and your reactions 🫶🏽🔥
And about the English Guiana that’s Guyana 🇬🇾 (my parents are from there) there’s also the Dutch Guiana, Suriname 🇸🇷 and the French Guiana 🇬🇫(where I’m from).
there's a law in France that forbid all extraction in ressources or fuel or hydrocarbure, that's why in Guyana there's a high problem of illegal gold mining, (the rivers are full of gold)
6:11French often speak only french, Americans rarely speak more than English, so...what ? At least French have there own language, not an imported one.
Us in England speak English but don't have an official language
those territories want to stay with france, being in eu helps + france is fair and they have alot of french tourists. its a win for both.
and territories that got independence regret it (Comores)
@@IStMlbut we dont regret them.
@@MrSombrecoeur yes that's why your people try so hard to come to Mayotte. Big regrets right ?
"France is a sleeper" Thank you so much kind sir ; as a frenchie myself, it's really heart warming to hear that
France 💪
The real and historic reason france kept those territories is because they were not considered as colonies but actual part of France. All of them are colonies made under the monarchy, part of the first french colonial empire, when the revolution happend, in name of equality and the end of slavery, everyone there was made french citizen, and those territories considered as part of France, and the first colonial empire just became regular french territories.
All the colonies made after the revolution were not french territories, but colonies of the second colonial empire, and so were gave up.
So the reason those territories are still french is simply because they were part of the first french colonial empire, and not of the second.
they also choose to stay look at comoros and mayotte (that was part of comoros) all the islands decided to get independance except mayotte
For nuclear, UK does it in Australia and no one protest
par contre l'Australie et la Nouvelle Zélande protestaient contre les essais nucléaires dans le pacifique pousser par les Etats-Unis . lors des essais en Polynésie les avions militaires français avaient interdictions de survoler les USA et l'Amérique centrale . les américains des alliés de la France 🤔🤔🤔😡😡😡
I from reunion island 🇷🇪🇫🇷
Nice video !
there are the most important gold reserve discover at this day under french guyana. and the second most important spot of fuel under french guyana economic zone. the governement had refused to destroy the forest and the marine lands by voting a law saying an economic project cannot start if he put in danger the nature.
Yes, the sun never sets on French territories because few people know it but France is the 5th country in the world by its total area because France has the 2nd world maritime domain behind the USA. Thus French Polynesia with Tahiti is as vast as the only European continent.France has its longest land border in French Guiana with Brazil and its longest maritime border with Australia in Adelie Land in the South Pole.France is present on all continents and in all oceans, which allows it to have resources of rare metals at the bottom of the seas and oceans and to have military bases for its nuclear submarines because France is the 3rd power in number of nuclear warheads behind the USA and Russia .
Et c'est vrai, sauf que l'on était pas censé le dire. Après il semble que nos chefs ont des arguments essentiels contre les éventuels attaques terroristes nucléaires, de type bouclier antimissile spatial, comme l'avait déjà imaginé Reagan quand Putin n'était alors qu'un petit garçon aux ordres de Staline.
Le fameux bouclier spatial anti- missiles longue portée de type laser à décharge inversée nucléaire ou pas.
Une sorte de parapluie anti atomique.
Une seule tête nucléaire tirée d'un de nos sous marin en mer noire et Moscou disparait de la Mappemonde ...on ne comprend pas les motivations du vieux, certainement gravement frustré au point d'exploser la planète et les brebis serviles russes sont d'accord avec ça.
Après, même si le fou n'explose rien dans les mois suivants, c'est mieux de savoir où il est.
Après,.le plus étonnant est la servilité des russes, comment peuvent-ils supporter leur état de soumission à l'autorité sans jamais revendiquer leurs droits à la liberté d'expression.
Putin, ancien colonel du KGB dans la période perestroïka, n'a pas vraiment apprécié l'ouverture d'esprit de Gorbatchev , pourtant le seul russe plus intelligent que tous les intellectuels occidentaux de l'époque. Une sorte de visionnaire incroyablement libre de pensées, malgré son moule formaté aux idées du partie.
Alors Putin est devenu conseiller auprès du premier et dernier président démocratiquevment élu, l'innénarable Boris Eltsine
It was quite funny to see you say that French Guyana may become important later for some reason, right before the video mentions the spaceport.
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16:39 you nailed it right there
Rainbow warrior case is well known in France
Nearly none of the french EEZ natural resources are being exploited. We are keeping that as a gift and life insurance to the future generations.
Just to correct one point. Suez crisis wasn't with DeGaulle in charge for France. The Suez Crisis is in 1956. The return of DeGaulle to lead France happen during crisis of Alger in 1958.
I like your work. Good video. And yes you are right. It is very important for us to have our sovereignty (which is more than just indépendance) and the control of our destiny. It could explain the declaration of Macron about Taïwan and US/China rivalry.
But it not suppose to be aggressive or to have desire of violent expantionnisme. France couldn't lead for the XXI century his colonial politics of the XIX century. And the violent rivalry with Germany had been very prejuditious for our both countries. It is a very good thing to have good relations with our neighbour's.
dans la crise de Suez ils y avaient aussi les britanniques et israéliens
Very interesting video. Thanks. And I really like when you make comments, although you sometimes make little mistakes. But I like it because it's very spontaneous. We all do the same when we discuss with friends.
They thinked the boat (Rainbow Warrior) was empty when they bombed it... huge and tragic mistake by France.
Big scandal in New Zealand and every french know this shameful story.
And the RealLifeLore guy is forgetting about the thin wedge of Antartica France owns. Sure, theres noone living there, but it adds to their land area in a way
They dont own it, they claim it
there is french people living there 12 months/year
Et bim ! Prenez ça dans vos tronches les rosbeefs avec votre empire sur lequel le soleil ne se couche jamais.
😂😂😂 j'avoue. Il nous manque plus qu'une île vers le Japon et on a placardé des punaises partout sur le planisphère 🫡
@@Lostouillec'est pour ça qu'il y a eu une guerre en Indochine entre autre, le spot était stratégique
On aurait dû négocier avec l'Inde pour garder une base à Pondichéry contre une rente annuelle. Imaginez l'humiliation absolue pour les rosbeefs.
qu'ils n'ont plus...LOL
@@NicolasViard-kc9dm Je suis allée à Pondichéry...ils parlent tous français là-bas, y compris les indiens locaux. un des endroits les plus développé d'Inde d'ailleurs.
17:00 France is a giant stuck betwin titans
the regions around both poles are distorted by the projection used to make the map from a globe. So the areas in this regions aren't so large as the seems.
Il ne manque plus que les domaines français dans le monde comme le Domaine national français en Terre sainte (4 possessions dans la ville de Jérusalem), 7 églises au Vatican, Églises et villa de Médicis à Rome, la forêt du Mundat en Allemagne, Les vestiges de Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène (Domaines français de Sainte-Hélène) , j'en oublie peut-être d'autre.
There is also the islet of Clipperton off the coast of Mexico or the states associated with France like the principalities of Monaco and Andorra.
The President of the French Republic in title also becomes a prince since he receives at investiture the title of Prince of the Principality of Andorra, a state located in the Pyrenees between France and Spain , as a survival of the time when the kings of France were also kings of Navarre an ancient state which was also located between France and the Pyrenees and which will now be shared between France and Spain which has preserved the historic capital of Navarre, Pamplona is famous for its bull shedding in the streets while France has preserved the northern part of this kingdom which became the departments of the Atlantic Pyrenees and the High Pyrenees.France in the years 60-70 conceded besides the independence of several African states and the Maghreb with Algeria, as well as"to the Comoros archipelago except the island of Mayotte which voted to remain French as recently New Caledonia in the Pacific and abandoned many military bases like Bizerte in Tunisia, Mers El Kebir and the Sahara in Algeria or Djibouti.
Talking about french being leaders forced to be in a group, I am saying that as a french person, I think nuclear weapons and nuclear deterance have changed a lot of things in term of internationnal relationship. When you have the nuclear threat, you don't have to fear invasion as much anymore and you focus on econmics. France has evolved and became pro european in the late 80s and 90s. Most of european countries can't compete with superpower like the US and now China and forming the european union was the only way to compete. At least, living in France, that is what you feel, we are still proud of our history and culture but we feel very european at the same time.
C'est faux. En général les gens se définissent comme Français et non Européen (dans le sens cosmopolite du terme). D'ailleurs personne ne sait comment fonctionne l'UE. Le sentiment d'européanité n'est présent que dans les grandes villes de métropole, à petite dose.
For EEZ and Canada, you’re looking at a flattened map, it’s much smaller than reality at top and bottom :P
Thanks for your vidéos i like it merci ❤
We dont speak English cause we have a complex old history with British that's it ;) but we love them !
Nous sommes romans, Celtes, les anglais sont saxons germaniques
Sorry for Luxemburg
i'm watching you dude 😊
Suriname is Dutch Guiana, not English. The English Guiana is simply called Guyana ("gai'ana").😊
Connor is both funny and frustrating to watch. He watches a video to learn and freely admits to knowing nothing about and then goes on to pause and comment on something he already admits to knowing nothing about. Every reaction he does has at least one instance where he says "I gotta stop talking" when he realises he doesn't know what he's talking about.
😂😂😂
Mate, north and south poles move in the same direction, the importance is how far away from the equator
In Guyana, there is some gold smuglers. I imagine there are surely other precious minerals, gaz or oil in the ground
I mean, it's not really a secret that France is that big.
It is common knowledge and official recognized as such internationally but that's just nitpicking the title of the video.
For the nuclear testing France did around 1/5 of the tests the USA did themselves, so do not be so quick to judge them (and they did it themselves because the USA and its allies refused to share their knowledge of nuclear weapons with France).
Why is Auckland in Christchurch? I'm sure neither city would be happy about that
Interesting 😮
6:06 nah bro honestly today a lot of people will maybe have really bad accent but a large majority of people speak english (except maybe old people) compared to other countries, i think that italy for example speaks less english than france
For information France is country win most military battles. Ok....................
The US should go build an island right next to Taiwan like : Hi 🙃
Ok american. You always have secret prison around the world ?
That is the first thing I thought as well. The photographer’s family got the least amount of money? Money doesn’t bring him back, but hell! What did the New Zealand Govt need so much money for?
You are correct --- nobody OWNS the south Pole --- but it has been shared between nations with a common set of rules --- signed off by all the participating nations --- the presence of these nations over there is purely for scientific research purposes. nobody actually lives there -- it is not colonised per se --- but there are scientific posts and missions with a small number of scientists and some small amount of tourism.
British Guyana is Guyana Suriname is dutch Guyana.
French Guyana is full of gold mines, there are tons of other minerals that are being extracted
Yeah and all these overseas territories have French citizenship and can vote in French and European Union elections. Not like the US and its territories like Guam and others
Dancin
Canada islands arent so extended. Its just the mercator projection who give you this feeling as well as the fact that in reality Africa is the largest continent on earth after Asia, not north America.
Yes, the Rainbow Warrior event was really a shame and unforgiveable for France, my home country.
Bof, bof, de quoi se mêlait Geenpeace, stipendié par les USA ? Je ne suis pas un fan de Mitterrand, mais là, il a eu raison. Notre seul tort, nous être fait choper...
@@reynaldparisel3852 surtout que c'était apparemment un accident car quand les 2 agents sont descendue du bateaux il était vide mais le photographe semble être revenue plus tard car il avait oublié quelque choses sur le navire.
@@reynaldparisel3852sur les 12 agents des services français seul deux ce sont fait attraper mais ceux qui ont pausés les explosifs sont reparti comme ils sont arrivés en plongée sous marines c'étaient des nageurs de combats . Bon il aurait suffit de verser du sable dans l'huile de moteur et le bateau étaient immobilisé
You may want to know that the citizens of those overseas territories regularly get to vote on whether they wish said territories to become an independent nation or stay part of France.
Interestingly, in French Guiana, France has 40 years of oil reserves, not to mention gold, other resources and unused fertile land.
It's an immense land, the size of the Benelux countries, but underdeveloped.
But why?
Because of the trauma of colonization, we know full well that if we develop this territory, the local population, who are currently happy to be French because of the advantages it brings, will demand their independence.
My dream, even though I've never been to French Guiana, is to see this territory develop.
I also dream of the resurrection of our emperor god napoleon but we have the right to dream ok.
Well its also really hard and risky politicaly to funnel the colossal amount of money required to develop mine project and the economy into a territory where a very small fraction of the population lives metropolitan voters obviously want the money they get taxed to be redistributed equally.
Also, how would a politician justify these investements in super poluting resource extraction while the subject of climate change is such a hot topic nowadays? (I can recall a very recent event where a gold mine project was canceled due to the mobilisation of some locals and metropolitan leftists to preserve the bioiverity). Showing amusingly enough how actively fighting against climate change can come into conflict with their fight for financial equality.
But then again the developement of primary sector economies generaly arent the most benificial long term investments for local populations (miners always stay poor). Just looking the at poorest populations on the globe, they are very oftenly found in countries and regions that have the bulk of their activity oriented towards the primary sector and the exports of natural resources. Whereas Manufacturing and transforming industries as well services sectors are generally markers of relatively higher and healthier levels of social development. That's why imho french guyana's best economic bet is to stay within France and push for further investments into the already beneficial economic activities it posses, such as it's aerospace sector and its touristic sector.
It's obvious that you don't know the history of French Guyana to make such a statement.
Et moi jr prefere ne pas deforester, conserver la faune et lz flore qui peuvrnt disparaitre rapidement, preserver la terre des amerindiens. D'autant plus que lancement d'Ariane crée une polution insensée. Le mercure des orpailleurs pollue irremediablement le fleuve et ceux qui en vivent. Ce n'est que mon point de vue.
France takes very good care of the amerindians living there and the Amazonian forest and its fauna. A very little proportion of the natural resources actually is exploited.
@@Kamonohashiii the prisons?
Giga Chad France
American prejudices. You don't "take over a colony". You "set up a trading outpost."
18:27 man you are tricked with the map projection scale , take other map projections and you’ll figure that it’s not as large as you think
Made with diplomacy🎉❤
We ate New Zealand sheep in France, for our mistake...
You get a French like with this video ! Et merci à tous mes Français qui on liker cette vidéo.
René Coty, rather than Charles de Gaulle, was president of France during the Suez crisis. Conor’s sincerely intoned but fallacious comments and analysis are a constant source of both frustration and amusement.
"C'est notre Raïs à nous. C'est monsieur René Coty. Un grand homme, il marquera l'histoire"
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USA took the place of France in a way the problem is we don’t share exactly the same values .. but since 21 century and globalization.. culture and values of France are changing
As a french, I can say that probably my country is the greatest sleeper for a lot of reasons.
That's for the same reason that you a have a french bashing. Even further, UK/USA/Germany always tryed to push it down.
About politicians almost all of them are USA's or Germany's (which mean also usa) vassals.
That's an interesting subject and a really nice video, thanks a lot for that
Like every country, France done some wrong mistakes. But for the rainbow warrior, nobody can say if it was a mistake, or an aggression. And maybe just a collision. But in my mind, if a country like France wants to dive off a ship secretly, nobody will know that shitty new…
Japan is Frenchless.
What a discover!
and then you found Kagurazaka :p
Nice country you have there, terrible if something happened to it - England
It already happened a lot of time by our past, but not for us! - France
But France is the World's biggest country, not the fifth. It has the most territory because you include the seas which the video didn't do for reasons ?
Sure ! That for a young American to whom we grumble that his country is the strongest the most beautiful, discover that there is a power that makes a foot in his nose on many aspects it is annoying.
Legio Patria Nostra
Most french people don’t really realise it because they live on a continent, but France is indeed an impressive maritime power and control of the seas has been for centuries at the center of France’s understanding of the world, and therefore of French geopolitics. And it seems wise.
These days France is instrumental in getting large sea areas protected at international level (still not fast and large enough though). It also puts a lot of effort - and military resources - into keeping international waters free and safe for navigation, altogether with Nato and indo-pacific allies.
As a French citizen and taxpayer, I find this all well and good. Wise, meaningful, useful to French interests and to humanity.
But I don’t think we can afford it all. France has been trying for decades to share some of the burden with its fellow EU member-states and results are… behind expectations, to put it mildly (of course it doesn’t include the U.K., France’s most operationally efficient ally, with 100% shared views on international order, but they’re not in the EU anymore so, as I said… ). It really costs us a lot of money, it costs us a lot. The country’s been lacking resources in so many areas, from schools to health to research to infrastructures to business…
At an individual level global activism brings patriotic pride and self-esteem, but you can’t eat much of that, can you? So I’m not sure the French public will support this very much longer.
What you also prove here is the french are definitely the best to turn a positive portray into a negative issue... ah the typical noisy french revolutionary mood 😂 🇨🇵
@@Nono__YT I do? Damn. Don’t worry, let me just guillotine something and everything will be back to normal 😊
More seriously, that’s how I - and most french people - was taught to build an argument, in high school, university and college: thesis, antithesis, synthesis. You always need to consider as many sides of a topic as possible, as earnestly as possible, and then - only then - you can pick a side, after you weighted pros and cons. And if your antithesis is too thin, then you can bin the whole lot.
Isn’t it how the world is, and how humans operate, not in black or white, but somewhere in the grey zone?
@@tixien @tixien pas la peine d'avoir de la méthode quand on emploie de faux arguments qui généralisent des problèmes à relativiser (écoles, santé). Un peu moins performant qu'avant ne signifie pas l'effondrement total... et pour retourner l'argument, avons nous vraiment les moyens de payer tous les services publics au niveau auquel on a eu l'habitude depuis les années 80 ?
Right or wrong its my country.
If you build an island you don't have the right to réclame an EEZ in the law of UN.
16:03 States don't have hearts ...
It's not specific to France.
Il n'y a pas que l'empire Anglais qui a existé. La France a était une nation et ensuite un Empire bien avant les Anglais. #Charlemagne.
Moral ? Bro, you are a european living in america. The moral argument do not stand. Land have to be owned by somebody. Either X or Y, the one not owning it will complain anyway.
Also, we talk about morals since women softened the political landscape. But reste assure the ones who want to own more do not have that moral problem taking our stuff.
What does this guy have against France with his constant bashing..must be jealously 😂
i am a french citizen and i can tell that we are not scary with our military due to the fact that we are one of the only country without a military service but we have something called the honnor legion which make stranger from all across the globe into the most scary and cold military generals and commando of the world we do horrible things to them even if they are strangers (if they have stranger they will be able to gain citizenship for free) so france is not scary in term of manpower but have the most scary commandos and generals even more scarrier than americans and also we have the best military technology out of all countries (but in a war we would get destroy cause we want to avoid conflict as much as possible such in the video allmost instantly after the greenpiece boat blow up we payed compensations)
how old are you? Our foreign legionnaires may be good but not so much better than most special forces of other military nations and the french military tech may be good on paper but the soldiers never see the good stuff. In most operations, the functionning gear is a mix of so many different generations of equippement that the engineering units can't keep up with the logistics properly.
The recent Ukraine war showed we don't even have sufficient capability for intervening inside continental Europe without severly depleting tactical reserves of men or ammo.
I mean the only places we have had any results is in west africa where we have severe technological advantage and can conduct operations the proper way (i mean by that with actual military competent men in charge, not politicians).
@@Wolfesjunges well it may not be usefull now or less scary but it is certainly still very strong
France total area is 672 051 km2 which makes France 41st not 5th.
Most of the overseas territories (but Guyana which is pretty big) are small islands.
this is not what he said … if you take lands and EEZ, france is the 5 ….
this is not what he said … if you take lands and EEZ, france is the 5 ….
@@superdatcha4218 EEZ is not part of what's called a country, it's not even territorial sea, just exclusive economic zone as the name implies ^^
So the title is wrong, and that's what I was talking about.
@@synkaan2167 i’m agree ….i’m just telling you what is said in that documentory …
@@didierpetit7566 Qui ignore cette réalité ? Tu réponds à quoi ?
You got to love France but you also can't not hate it.
DNA of british descendants.
I love France, visit quite often and speak French reasonably well. I don’t hate it.
@@chrismackett9044 You need to learn more about France if you don't hate it and love it.
@@squidcaps4308 I spent some time both at school and university in France and many subsequent visits but clearly must bow to your superior knowledge
As a Frenchman, I understand - and share - your point. Indeed, France is unapologeticly outstanding 😁
I.o.w, It's due to the biggish number of microscopic French post-imperial remnants that Paris has made legally part of France itself (rather than cutting them loose as independent states or pigeonholing them as distinct dependent territories like Britain's sundry "Crown dependencies"). Thus, the 200 miles of sea offshore from their coasts or wholly surrounding the various insular dots or archipelagos, ALL add up as part of France's overall EEZ.
It's one of the few potentially genuine economic benefits of France's predilection for what's more often been a smoke-and-mirrors style illusion. A sham of ongoing great power status. Though for allies, the French willingness to cut their own army so they can keep a big enough navy and air force to "play at" being a superpower, may be less welcome.
We BRITS, for instance, who should make it VERY plain that WE will not be filling any gaps by deploying more UK ground forces to Europe at the price of a smaller RN or RAF
There's always that one brit bashing France. Never fails.
I like the salty taste of tears of rage.
U.K was saved by french in Dunkirk so ... They can talk , only actions have credits . Without France, UK would be easily invaded by germans .
As told : to fly like a british.
Las estupideces de la historia. Filipinas españolas, yankees, japonesas, yankees y filipinas en 60 años.
Hello about 6:20 as a french man i can say one thing, the majority of the oldest generation does'nt have a good english education. But, the majority of the newest generation have a prety good english education. The Mundialization...
PS: And yess the biggest shame of France is the Raibow Warrior(and all nuclear testing, Gaddhafi.. etc). An opperation orcastred by one of the worst president of Fifth Republic history (François Mitterand an old member of Vichy Administration who have used the Socialist Party as a Suit and betrayed most of French citizens)
1)il est très souvent arrivé au Etats -Unis que je m'exprime plus en espagnol qu'en anglais ? Aux étatsuniens aussi d'apprendre une langue étrangère . dans toutes l'Amérique du sud les habitants ne font aucuns effort pour les aidés . au Chili j'avais besoin d'un service les gens pensaient que j'étais américains quand je me suis exprimé en espagnol et qu'ils ont su que j'étais français ils se sont mis en quatre pour m'aider .
2)quand les britanniques faisaient des essais dans le désert australien personnes ne protestaient ? par contre l'Australie et la Nouvelle Zélande protestaient contre les essais nucléaires français dans le pacifique pousser par les Etats-Unis . lors des essais en Polynésie les avions militaires français avaient interdictions de survoler les USA et l'Amérique centrale .
3)vous avez la plus grande honte concernant la France avec le Raibow Warrior et tous les essais nucléaires, mais par contre vous ne dites rien concernant les essais nucléaire américains dans le pacifique dans les îles Marshall et particulièrement l'atoll "Bikini" ou mêmes en 2024 aucun être vivants ne peut y vivre .une comparaison? les I 'îles Marshall sont plus près de l'Australie que de la Polynésie
Nan mais poto j'suis charentais x)@@ybreton6593
China then India. Then UK.
France have a big territory, but a litle army
Well actually China has always claimed those part of the South China Sea. These territories were enforced by the USA as part of China until recently when China started to develop faster than the USA so the USA just changed the international narrative to say that China is claiming these waters and islands. However internationally these seas and islands are registered as part of Chinese territory.
Celui qui ose parler mal de la France aura à faire à moi
Ouais... je ne sais pas de quand date la vidéo, mais on se fait quand même bien jarter d'Afrique (le Mali, le Tchad, tout ça, on oublie !). Mais vive la France quand même... en espérant que les Russes ne nous tiennent pas rigueur d'avoir suivi la politique agressive de l'Aigle impérial américain en 2014 (la putain de guerre en Ukraine, voulue par notre maître l'Oncle Sam).
Sauf qu'en vrai c'est de notre faute (ainsi que de l'Allemagne) si l'Ukraine c'est fait envahir. On a refusé l'entrée dans l'Otan de l'Ukraine et la Géorgie pour ne pas énerver la Russie. Résultat : les 2 pays se sont quand-même fait envahir par la Russie.
Quand a la politique agressive de l'aigle américain en 2014. Bin c'est la Russie qui a envahie.
Après je suis d'accord sur le fait qu'il faut rester indépendant des USA mais c'est pas une raison pour léger les bottes d'une puissance déclinante et à l'opposé de nos valeurs démocratiques. Au contraire il faut profiter de la faiblesse de la Russie.
France will pay a lot of money to get hostages back but not for a victim’s family. It’s the opposite in the US, don’t ask me why.
Ha if France is this big the UK must be absolutely gargantuan in comparison.
until UK will collapse... due to Brexit.🙄
@@thierryf67 The EU will collapse not Great Britain....And the French are rioting again because they're never happy.
Actually no but the UK is huge too
UK EEZ = 2 624 651 square miles
France EEZ = 4 513 920 square miles
Mainland France is 2 times larger than UK and 5 times larger than England
France is the ONLY country on which the sun NEVER set with 13 time zones! Welcome to 2023, sore loser!!!
Well, no actually.
Well Britain owns Canada and Australia. A bit more land than France I'm guessing 😂
we should perhaps warn the Canadians and the Australians, right? :p
Nah Canada is a sovereign country now! An ally though but NATO-OTAN represent the whole democratic world !
Peu intéressant, mal compris et plein d'erreurs...manque de professionnalisme. Sans intérêt
France is struggling to remain independent/ sovereign and is gradually adjusting to its ‘real’ status as a medium sized power, having lost its power/influence as a major player post Suez… it’s always difficult for main powers to accept their decline, it takes generations to realize, accept, internalize.. The UK will face the same struggle, so will the US in the 2nd half of this century. Then France tried to remain a power within the EU framework, and now it’s even lost that, so militarily, economically, and diplomatically, it’s becoming irrelevant and that’s hard to take when you are no longer at the adults table and relegated to the kids table
this decline is mainly helped by a political class that blindly follows the USA and favors the construction of Europe rather than defending our national interests...
your comment is your opinion, not facts. The French passport remain (to this day!) one of the most (if not the most) "powerful" passport on the planet, way above the American passport. You said France's diplomatic power is irrelevant?! interesting view... Kids table? not with the fourth (or third) nuclear force on the planet.
Your comment is non sense. Where in hell France has been relegated to the kids table when it remains a permanent member of UN, has the larger exclusive economic zone in the world, being a founding member of EU, the french language still being the second work language of all major global organizations, having the fourth military capabilities in the world, one of the leaders in space exploration, aircraft, automobile, chemicals, research, the only military nuclear power in European Union, the first tourist destination in the world and still considered the capital of modern culture, fashion and art... Your comment is just usual french bashing. The kid is you, by trying to teach lesson to a country existing since more than a thousand years which forged the most parts of the modern world.
pour rappel les britanniques ont l'arme nucléaire mais contrairement à la France . ils dépendent de Etats - Unis . Mon pays , Notre pays a été la troisième nation à mettre au point la bombe atomique seule ! contrairement aux britanniques qui dépendaient du bon vouloir des américains . depuis 1945 le pays qui a perdu le plus de guerres sont les Etats-Unis .
That’s pathetic, the UK is the only country to be on every continent!
Never France 🇫🇷 had english king. We put a french king on england’s throne. U.k is not England. No?
South america ?
@@fabs8498 The Falklands :)
Not anymore, it's on France now that the sun never set !
lol
you haven't been to France for a long time: we're not asleep, we're dead