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Showing Original Post only (View all)Should France have gotten involved in the US Revolutionary War? [View all]
Taxation without representation hardly equates to the use of WMDs. And the French mainland was not threatened by the conflict. Obviously Benjamin Franklin was very successful in persuading France to intervene, but was it right for them to do so?
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Yes, it was right for France to intervene militarily in the US Revolutionary War. | |
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No, France should have stayed out of the conflict. | |
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Certainly not from the French people's point of view. See 1789 for what happened next.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Sep 2013
#1
No shit, how many bites at the apple are these folks going to take to sell their war?
TheKentuckian
Sep 2013
#4
Yep and I was going to add the burning of Atlanta would be even more analogous. n/t
Nuclear Unicorn
Sep 2013
#29
France engaged in what was, essentially, a century-long war against Britain...
malthaussen
Sep 2013
#25
a much stronger analogous thread, e.g., the Ottoman War of Succession 1509-12
LanternWaste
Sep 2013
#38
Helping us helped push them into bankruptcy and helped hasten their own Revolutionary war.
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2013
#40