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.)
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.)