Francois Darlan
Francois Darlan
We should have struck the moment the moment that The Germans invaded Poland. If we had done this we would have won the war right then right there. The problem with this was the fucking Belgians, they decided to declare neutrality at the worst possible moment. It didn't help the stupid waffles of course but it kept us from settling things. You know dispite being invaded by both the Soviets and The Germans at the same fucking time? The Poles managed to last an entire year managed to do a fighting retreat that got most of their leadership, pretty much all of their navy and a good chunk of civilians and milary personal out of the country.
It was a heroic but doomed effort and if the fucking Waffles hadn't fucked it all in the ass it would have ended differently. So of course the Germans didn't respect Belgian neutrality because they didn't the last two times right? We lasted 6 weeks, Petain wanted to throw in the towel and De Gauelle wanted to fight on from Algeria.
The French government incompetant as it was surrendered and we had a choice.
Me I decided that there was a plan, we had spent billions of Franc's on the plan we had personal in Algeria for the plan and I wasn't going to abandon it. So I gathered up as much of the French Navy as possible told the Brits we were still in this and declared that the surrendering capital were traitors, and that we the Free french represented the actual nation of France.
From there each colony had to pick sides.
Algeria obviously picked us as did most of west Africa. Vietnam declared for Vichy as did Gabon. Everything in the carribean declared for us because our navy, the british one and the Polish one took their guns to the islands and gave them a choice. Which was declare for us or die.
So with fewer resources then expected and refugees fleeing Vichy France we realized we were going to be stuck fighting a very long and horrible war. I suppose that's one of the reasons we didn't let the brits get away with any white paper nonsense their coddling of the germans helped lead to this nightmare and we were damned if they were not going to do their bit to deal with the refugee crisis the war helped cause.
We should have struck the moment the moment that The Germans invaded Poland. If we had done this we would have won the war right then right there. The problem with this was the fucking Belgians, they decided to declare neutrality at the worst possible moment. It didn't help the stupid waffles of course but it kept us from settling things. You know dispite being invaded by both the Soviets and The Germans at the same fucking time? The Poles managed to last an entire year managed to do a fighting retreat that got most of their leadership, pretty much all of their navy and a good chunk of civilians and milary personal out of the country.
It was a heroic but doomed effort and if the fucking Waffles hadn't fucked it all in the ass it would have ended differently. So of course the Germans didn't respect Belgian neutrality because they didn't the last two times right? We lasted 6 weeks, Petain wanted to throw in the towel and De Gauelle wanted to fight on from Algeria.
The French government incompetant as it was surrendered and we had a choice.
Me I decided that there was a plan, we had spent billions of Franc's on the plan we had personal in Algeria for the plan and I wasn't going to abandon it. So I gathered up as much of the French Navy as possible told the Brits we were still in this and declared that the surrendering capital were traitors, and that we the Free french represented the actual nation of France.
From there each colony had to pick sides.
Algeria obviously picked us as did most of west Africa. Vietnam declared for Vichy as did Gabon. Everything in the carribean declared for us because our navy, the british one and the Polish one took their guns to the islands and gave them a choice. Which was declare for us or die.
So with fewer resources then expected and refugees fleeing Vichy France we realized we were going to be stuck fighting a very long and horrible war. I suppose that's one of the reasons we didn't let the brits get away with any white paper nonsense their coddling of the germans helped lead to this nightmare and we were damned if they were not going to do their bit to deal with the refugee crisis the war helped cause.