Why France's Geography is Almost Perfect
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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.
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.
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.
"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.
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
@@kaissersreich ja
English tourists are kind
the only problem with France a beautiful and lovely place is the French.
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
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.
RealLifeLore: France's Geography is Almost Perfect
Otto von Bismarck: Yes, almost.
That weird Austrian German: Ja, have you ever heard my "Ardennen Autoban"?
Gg to the guy who wrote the name of rivers and managed to misspell both Loire and Seine.
AND Garonne
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 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's Geography is Almost Perfect.
-Nein!
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 !
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
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
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.
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 😜🇨🇭
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.
“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. 😂
Pretty funny, how France has an almost perfect strategical position and yet breaks his head over the one little flaw. Meanwhile most other nations are surrounded with nothing but plain fields.
Who would want to invade Germany ?
because the defeat happend because of the government and high command, also france is one of the country that influenced the world the most with england (which was influenced a lot by france, being ruled for most than 200 years by french)
*Sad Poland noises
Most other nations are small, poor and don't have the best possible climate in comparaison so there's that.
"One little flaw" of almost 400km tho
RealLifeLore : France’s Geography is perfect
Germany : and I took that personally
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.
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
“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
1:41 love the RIP above Notre Dame
"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
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 would love an entire series describing countries using the format of the Civ games
Ngl I love the music you put in the background. Great video !
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 😂😂😂
"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
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.
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
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
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
this video gives the lession that sometimes, freindship is the best armor
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...
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
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.
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.
lorie & siene are just my fav rivers
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
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
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
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.
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: 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
I think you should make a video ranking and grading all major countries geopolitical/geographical advantages like how we grade NBA/NFL draft prospects @reallifelore
By the way, j'ai vraiment aimé votre vidéo, très bien réalisée, bravo, j'ai bien aimé.
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
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
Excellent explanation, thank you
I've been to France and It's gorgeous
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*
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
France has the most aesthetically pleasing flag colors. I wish I could fly it, but I’m not french.
i live in france and this brings me joy
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
**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.
Video: France's geography is almost perfect
Hitler: Almost
This is purely fascinating If you can enjoy the history and geography without your subjective biases against countries.
I'm a simple french, I see "France" and "perfect" in the same sentence, I click.
Edit : Finished the video, thanks for your work.
Go to work.
@@erfgoedgidsveenhuizen Strike on monday. I'll go thuesday.
@@vomanna I wouldn't expect anything else from the French.
Pareil. J'ai pas pu résister 😖😥🇨🇵😭
@@erfgoedgidsveenhuizen and yet, the French people have the highest productivity per inhabitant with their 35h a week ... Sounds like the world got something wrong
Man where the heck you get these realistic af and beautiful thumbnail from? Plss tell me
Great work Thank you
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
France : *WW1*
This made my day lol 😂
WWI and WWII: let me introduce myself
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
You should do a video about Kiribati’s geography. I think it has the most interesting geography out of any country
So France can attack Germany through the plain and Germany can attack France through the plain
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 is easy to defend"
*Laughs in German*
Belgium: **Nervous Sweating**
*Also in Roman*
Also FRANCE : ...*WW1*... ...*NUKES*...
*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.
@RealLifeLore, where/how did you generate the "enhanced terrain" view you used for the video thumbnail?
Its crazy how the worlds sexiest language is in one country. And just next to that country is the country with the worlds unsexiest language.
Hahaha true
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?
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
Can you do one about Spain and Portugal please!
Proud to be French and live in this country :) ❤🇨🇵💜
_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 ?
"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
Ouahhhh c'est vraiment vite résumé et interprété ça monsieur!
Id love to see an episode on Egypt, how the desert protected it from all invaders (except Arabs) but the Nile Delta made it an easy access from the north (Romans, Greeks, Napoleon, ottomans, British)
Lol sorry to point this out, the river is spelled “Loire”
Lol sorry to point this out, but no one actually gives a shit
@@WardenOfTheGreatSaltLake 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
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).
Belgian borders are almost perfect. We just need the part southwest of us till the Pyrenees
Heh atleast foreigners rule it from ur country😀✌️
We also have Lorie in France but the only river she made is the tears when I have to listen to her because of my niece
Just to make this clear: France did not think Germany unable to pass through the Ardenne, they thought German Motorized and Panzers were unable to pass through the Ardennes, and they were right. What they were wrong was to assume that this would be enough deterrence a against full scale German thrust.
The Panzers stuck close to the Ardenne while German infantry did indeed go through the Ardennes. Might be nitpicking but it's always good to know.
*nitpicking
RealHipHopManiac Wrong. Guderian and Rommel were probably the reason why the mission succeeded in the way it did. While the German Panzers did have problems traversing the Ardennes and were spotted a few times, they did push through it with >50 Panzer divisions
Kevi Shader 50 vermacht divisions
Germany won in 1870 before Blitzkrieg strategy was invented, before Tanks were invented, before Airplanes were used for warfare, motorized infantry wasn't around and it wasn't even a preemptive strike.
France was the one to declare war and was the First to attack in Saarbrücken.
@@kevishader3561 No, that would either be the French command failure or if you wanted to attribute it to any German General - Manstein, who came up with the plan before Hitler took credit for it. And I believe you're either confusing the area with the actual forest -- German tanks almost exclusively used the road networks of the Ardenne -- or you are very confident in your ignorance.
Also, 50 panzer divisions? Germany only had 21 in Barbarossa. You're not serious?
"France has great geography"- Every German SS officer
lol
6:09 man, he really whipped that boat around
must say it's almost totally about war influences. I kinda want to play some strategy now
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
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?
6:44 Germany controls the Euro production XD
One correction. Prussia and her allies didn't invade France through Belgium in the Franco-Prussian War. They went through the Saarland and into Lorraine. This territory isn't flat at all.
Also (more for the commenters), for much of modern history, France was much more of a military threat to the disunited German lands than vice-versa. Even though there were few desisive wars, France had far more ability to project her power into the German states than the other way around. Hence, the reason the Franco-Prussian war was such a shocking reversal.
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*
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."
France: I have the perfect geography
Germany: Are you sure about that?
The Maginot line goes right through my village in France, I feel represented here lmao
The geography is so good that the 7th Panzer Division decided to take a tour
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
I would love to visit France 🇫🇷 one day
Chuckled at the rivers being written as Siene, Lorie and Garrone when it's Seine Loire and Garonne