To the contrary, it shows WE haven't learned a thing since 1914, 1940, 1960 ....*

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"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me." – General George Patton.

"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion." – General Norman Schwartzkopf.

Denying use of their airspace, cutting private deals with Iran, now this; France is a useless ally and has nothing to offer the world except smelly cheese and unshaved armpits — or the other way around — but either way, time to stop thinking they are useful to us or our interests.

*Earlier that, in fact; their uselessness was revealed as long ago as 1867, when Mark Twain visited and reported that “In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.”