Someone explained it to me this way; It’s what happens when you lose all of those fighting men, and then over a generation or two, who’s left but the weak and everyone else who stayed behind and didn’t fight. Certainly not the only cause but a huge contributing factor. Take ww2 into account and it explains a lot of Europe
The guy in charge of French defense in WW2 had been at Verdun 25 years earlier. Literally hundreds of thousands dead - ~2500 dead per day (average) for 302 days.
I've heard some historians say that when the Blitz came, he didn't have the stomach for another slaughter. And it was obvious within a day or two that slaughter was the only option - 3rd generation war was insanely effective at forming, then extinguishing, pockets. The Germans demonstrated skill at this basically from first contact.
If they hadn't surrendered, half of their young men would have died, and the rest would have surrendered a few days or a few weeks later anyway.
Skip forward 80 years, and observe that France is noticably less cucked than Germany. Still not great, of course. I think the theory is right - willingness to fight is genetic, and if your country loses too much of it, you are fucked even if it takes a century for the lack of those genes to be felt.
And the Frenchman who chose to save his nation's fighting men made the right choice. I hope it was enough.
(I basically stopped making French surrender jokes when I learned about Verdun and saw some pictures of the ossuary they built there. That is some sobering shit.)
Someone explained it to me this way; It’s what happens when you lose all of those fighting men, and then over a generation or two, who’s left but the weak and everyone else who stayed behind and didn’t fight. Certainly not the only cause but a huge contributing factor. Take ww2 into account and it explains a lot of Europe
The guy in charge of French defense in WW2 had been at Verdun 25 years earlier. Literally hundreds of thousands dead - ~2500 dead per day (average) for 302 days.
I've heard some historians say that when the Blitz came, he didn't have the stomach for another slaughter. And it was obvious within a day or two that slaughter was the only option - 3rd generation war was insanely effective at forming, then extinguishing, pockets. The Germans demonstrated skill at this basically from first contact.
If they hadn't surrendered, half of their young men would have died, and the rest would have surrendered a few days or a few weeks later anyway.
Skip forward 80 years, and observe that France is noticably less cucked than Germany. Still not great, of course. I think the theory is right - willingness to fight is genetic, and if your country loses too much of it, you are fucked even if it takes a century for the lack of those genes to be felt.
And the Frenchman who chose to save his nation's fighting men made the right choice. I hope it was enough.
(I basically stopped making French surrender jokes when I learned about Verdun and saw some pictures of the ossuary they built there. That is some sobering shit.)
Doesn't seem to apply to Russia.