Reply #55: But having an entitlement attitude wouldn't help

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The French share a border with the Germans - I always tell that to freeps who insist we did the French a big favor and that they were "weak." :wtf: We had an ocean between ourselves and the Germans so that one I'll leave to the freepers.

We had our own interests in not letting the Germans overrun Europe. Even if they could never have made it to the U.S., trade and diplomacy would have been negatively affected. So I would imagine it easy for the French to resent the fact we owe them. And 60 years later, too. How long do they have to do whatever the U.S. wants to pay off WWII?

I have rightie relatives who send around the email occasionally on how the French should still be groveling at our feet because they don't have to speak German today. Whatever. Even if we saved them from that, to go on about it for so long and in people's faces is really obnoxious.