BREAKING NEWS: France Might Win a War (Cote d'Ivoire)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/world/africa/12ivory.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp

I don't know if anyone has been following the situation in the Ivory Coast over the last month or so, but France has recently intervened militarily in a civil war that has been developing in its former colony. The former President, Laurent Gbagbo, lost an election deemed by the international community to be legitimate, but refused to hand over power to his successor. This turned into a shooting war between the elected successor, Alassane Ouattara,his supporters and the French military on one side, and Gbagbo and his loyalists holed up in Abidjan on the other.

Well today Gbagbo was captured and arrested, which seems to signal the beginning of the end for his loyalist forces. Although French troops didn't actually take part in his arrest, they did provide military support which allowed the rebels to do so; which means that the French could, theoretically, claim this as a military victory.

Thoughts? Are we entering a new era in which France actually wins wars? Is Ragnarok upon us?

Well no matter what they are still French.Agent-Zero

I find this thread xenophobic.

I find this thread xenophobic.

SkyWard20

Thoughts? Are we entering a new era in which France actually wins wars? Is Ragnarok upon us?

fidosim

gotta love the Americans having a go at the French.

hello! if it wasn't for France the 13 colonies would have lost to the British!

France bankrupted themselves supporting the Americans and their military support was crucial to the American victory.

Well no matter what they are still French.Agent-Zero

gotta love the Americans having a go at the French.

hello! if it wasn't for France the 13 colonies would have lost to the British!

France bankrupted themselves supporting the Americans and their military support was crucial to the American victory.

CwlHeddwyn

Well no matter what they are still French.Agent-Zero

You bet your jealous ass we are 8)

Gbagbois the lowest of the low as far as I see it, the guy is nothing more than horrid president he even refused to leave office after he lost the election which shows how poor a loser he isI hope we do claim this as a victory

[QUOTE="CwlHeddwyn"]

gotta love the Americans having a go at the French.

hello! if it wasn't for France the 13 colonies would have lost to the British!

France bankrupted themselves supporting the Americans and their military support was crucial to the American victory.

i'm pretty sure they'll come up with a way to surrender in the last minutes of war.

A bit of background reading quickly reveals the real reason that France / the EU / the UN have been so anxious to get Alassane Ouattara in power.

He's a longtime member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

You can bet that Ouattara will be repaying his benefactors by doing what the IMF does best, i.e. miring a Third World country so deeply in debt that it becomes forever subordinate to some wealthy pigs somewhere in the West.

A few years from now, when the citizens of Cote d'Ivoire realize the severity of the "austerity measures" imposed on them for defaulting on IMF loan repayments, they may wish they'd let Gbagbo steal the election.

Pardon??? did you just say French Military victories?

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I may be ignorant... but where did the idea that the French lose all wars and always surrender come from?

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Fundai

Heh when I did that search with the "I'm feeling lucky" button, it came up with: "Did you mean: french military defeats"

I may be ignorant... but where did the idea that the French lose all wars and always surrender come from?

BMD004

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/france.html

I think this demands accuracy.

France have now won a war against half a country that was on the back foot from the internationally recognised half.

BREAKING NEWS: Tomorrow, France will be stealing chocolate from small children.

[QUOTE="BMD004"]

I may be ignorant... but where did the idea that the French lose all wars and always surrender come from?

Fundai

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/france.html

[QUOTE="Fundai"]

[QUOTE="BMD004"]

I may be ignorant... but where did the idea that the French lose all wars and always surrender come from?

BMD004

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/france.html

lets see... Get the easy ones out of the way... 1066, they were normans, technicly not french at this point...

In the end With Napolean they lost, though i Have to Admit Hes was One of the greatest generals of all time...

WW1 the French Really only won because they had help with that, WW2 they actually surendered...

So since Charlmagne they havent been able to actually Win a war without anyones help...

Anyway, its just a funny stereotype, doesent really matter.

[QUOTE="BMD004"][QUOTE="Fundai"]

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/france.html

Fundai

lets see... Get the easy ones out of the way... 1066, they were normans, technicly not french at this point...

In the end With Napolean they lost, though i Have to Admit Hes was One of the greatest generals of all time...

WW1 the French Really only won because they had help with that, WW2 they actually surendered...

So since Charlmagne they havent been able to actually Win a war without anyones help...

Anyway, its just a funny stereotype, doesent really matter.

And most countries in the past hundred or more years have had help in their victories.

[QUOTE="CwlHeddwyn"]

gotta love the Americans having a go at the French.

hello! if it wasn't for France the 13 colonies would have lost to the British!

France bankrupted themselves supporting the Americans and their military support was crucial to the American victory.

Pirate700

The problem is that us americans aren't really good at making fun of the french. We need to leave that to the British. They have mastered that art. Peter Sellers!

No more searching "French war victories" in google to bring up the "I'm feeling lucky" results? Sad :(ZumaJones07

- World War I - Tied and on the way to losing, France is saved by the United States [Entering the war late -ed.]. Thousands of French women find out what it's like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn't call her "Fraulein." Sadly, widespread use of condoms by American forces forestalls any improvement in the French bloodline.

[QUOTE="ZumaJones07"]No more searching "French war victories" in google to bring up the "I'm feeling lucky" results? Sad :(-RocBoys9489-

- World War I - Tied and on the way to losing, France is saved by the United States [Entering the war late -ed.]. Thousands of French women find out what it's like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn't call her "Fraulein." Sadly, widespread use of condoms by American forces forestalls any improvement in the French bloodline.

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

[QUOTE="CwlHeddwyn"]

gotta love the Americans having a go at the French.

hello! if it wasn't for France the 13 colonies would have lost to the British!

France bankrupted themselves supporting the Americans and their military support was crucial to the American victory.

Ninja-Hippo

[QUOTE="BMD004"][QUOTE="Fundai"]

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/france.html

Fundai

lets see... Get the easy ones out of the way... 1066, they were normans, technicly not french at this point...

In the end With Napolean they lost, though i Have to Admit Hes was One of the greatest generals of all time...

WW1 the French Really only won because they had help with that, WW2 they actually surendered...

So since Charlmagne they havent been able to actually Win a war without anyones help...

Anyway, its just a funny stereotype, doesent really matter.

I find this thread xenophobic.

SkyWard20

im with you

[QUOTE="-RocBoys9489-"]

[QUOTE="ZumaJones07"]No more searching "French war victories" in google to bring up the "I'm feeling lucky" results? Sad :(ravenhost91

- World War I - Tied and on the way to losing, France is saved by the United States [Entering the war late -ed.]. Thousands of French women find out what it's like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn't call her "Fraulein." Sadly, widespread use of condoms by American forces forestalls any improvement in the French bloodline.

Are we entering a new era in which France actually wins wars? Is Ragnarok upon us?fidosim

You Also have the 4th crusade in which French and Venetian troops nearly destroyed the Roman Empire (You may call it Byzantium too). In fact, not alot of armies very recently won wars without help, the US hasn't won a war on it's own since the US-Spanish war. Britan hasn't won a war by itself since the Boer war (iirc). The last war the Japanese won by themselves was the Russo-Japanese war iirc

Is it wrong to call it Ivory Coast still? As a person of English decent, I'm disinclined to say it the French way, and I can't pronounce it right anyway.

[QUOTE="Fundai"]

[QUOTE="BMD004"] http://www.militaryfactory.com/battles/french_military_victories.aspravenhost91

lets see... Get the easy ones out of the way... 1066, they were normans, technicly not french at this point...

In the end With Napolean they lost, though i Have to Admit Hes was One of the greatest generals of all time...

WW1 the French Really only won because they had help with that, WW2 they actually surendered...

So since Charlmagne they havent been able to actually Win a war without anyones help...

Anyway, its just a funny stereotype, doesent really matter.

[QUOTE="Ninja-Hippo"][QUOTE="Pirate700"]And without us the French would be speaking German. What's your point? One is a lot more recent than the other.

Pirate700

[QUOTE="ravenhost91"]

[QUOTE="Fundai"]

lets see... Get the easy ones out of the way... 1066, they were normans, technicly not french at this point...

In the end With Napolean they lost, though i Have to Admit Hes was One of the greatest generals of all time...

WW1 the French Really only won because they had help with that, WW2 they actually surendered...

So since Charlmagne they havent been able to actually Win a war without anyones help...

Anyway, its just a funny stereotype, doesent really matter.

Fundai

The stupid website says in the Franco-Prussian war, Germany, GERMANY, defeated France, when actually it was only Prussia, which isn't technically Germany but just a kingdom within Germany, just like Normandy was in France.

The ignorance in this thread is astounding. France is one of the most militarily successful nations on the planet, unlike the US which hasn't ever won a war on its own and has a terrible habbit of doing nothing until the last minute when they finally mop up.

Read number 5 for a bit of insight. Do any of you actually know whythe French had to surrender in WWII? I'll hazzard a guess at no.

I'd suggest some of you research a bit of history.

The ignorance in this thread is astounding. France is one of the most militarily successful nations on the planet, unlike the US which hasn't ever won a war on its own and has a terrible habbit of doing nothing until the last minute when they finally mop up.

Read number 5 for a bit of insight. Do any of you actually know whythe French had to surrender in WWII? I'll hazzard a guess at no.

I'd suggest some of you research a bit of history.

raynimrod

Its pretty comedic too.. If Great Britain was landlocked to Europe they would have been steam rolled by the Germans just like the French were..

[QUOTE="raynimrod"]

The ignorance in this thread is astounding. France is one of the most militarily successful nations on the planet, unlike the US which hasn't ever won a war on its own and has a terrible habbit of doing nothing until the last minute when they finally mop up.

Read number 5 for a bit of insight. Do any of you actually know whythe French had to surrender in WWII? I'll hazzard a guess at no.

I'd suggest some of you research a bit of history.

sSubZerOo

Its pretty comedic too.. If Great Britain was landlocked to Europe they would have been steam rolled by the Germans just like the French were..

Unfortunately it's true.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/world/africa/12ivory.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp

I don't know if anyone has been following the situation in the Ivory Coast over the last month or so, but France has recently intervened militarily in a civil war that has been developing in its former colony. The former President, Laurent Gbagbo, lost an election deemed by the international community to be legitimate, but refused to hand over power to his successor. This turned into a shooting war between the elected successor, Alassane Ouattara,his supporters and the French military on one side, and Gbagbo and his loyalists holed up in Abidjan on the other.

Well today Gbagbo was captured and arrested, which seems to signal the beginning of the end for his loyalist forces. Although French troops didn't actually take part in his arrest, they did provide military support which allowed the rebels to do so; which means that the French could, theoretically, claim this as a military victory.

Thoughts? Are we entering a new era in which France actually wins wars? Is Ragnarok upon us?

fidosim

I don't think its going to win.

[QUOTE="fidosim"]Thoughts? Are we entering a new era in which France actually wins wars? Is Ragnarok upon us?

Samurai_Xavier

[QUOTE="Engrish_Major"] I'm not so sure about that. The Russkies probably would have finished off the Germans eventually.Lonelynight

Thats doubtful.. The only reason to why it happened in part of Germany is because that was the end war agreement in the UN deciding the "management" of Germany in it being rebuilt..

France won a war? Maybe those 2012 theories aren't so far off.