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Comment by resource_waste

12 hours ago

I have some quotes about French sentiment, and it basically revolves around their need to have national grandeur despite being a lesser power.

France is all fanfare and rhetoric. Its fun stuff to play with in our imagination, but the ground reality of the world is different.

I have some quotes about US sentiment, and it basically revolves around their need to have national grandeur despite being a lesser power.

US is all fanfare and rhetoric. Its fun stuff to play with in our imagination, but the ground reality of the world is different.

-- A French

  • Just switching country names does not really work. The US is the very curious case of a super power that attempts to become a third world country.

What's the ground for this? Where's grandeur in this declaration? Your comment tell us more about your disdain for France than anything else.