Journalist asks Ajax manager Erik ten Hag on Frenkie de Jong going to PSG: "You've talked with him about this, right?" Ten Hag: "Yes, he was already speaking French"

You know it's quite annoying seeing this all the time it dishonors the big sacrifice of French soldiers. This isn't aimed at you in particular more the joke/meme.

At the start of the war France had the advantage in tanks, manpower, material and planes. Germany had the advantage in leadership and doctrine (by far). The Maginot line theoretically prevented an invasion from southern France so Britain and France expected a repeat of WW1 trench warfare in the lower countries of Belgium/Netherlands. The push through the Ardennes forest was such a massive gamble that if it failed Germany would have lost the war, yet it punched a whole straight through the back of the Allied lines flanking them which led to the capture of Paris in just over a month.

In the aftermath fourty thousand French soldiers held a narrow line against almost 150,000 while being bombed from the air constantly. Thanks to this 330,000 men mainly British, could escape at Dunkirk.

The civilian government which controlled Vichy france also scuttled most of the French navy (one of the most powerfur in the world at the time), again heavily outnumbered, which could have tipped the balance against the Royal Navy in any attempted amphibious landing of England.

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