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If you somehow still think Churchill wasn't an absolute shitbag. Who needs a Pearl Harbor when you have "allies" like this?
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@BroDrillard A bunch of shit just straight up false here. 1) The fleet was stationed in Algeria, not Southern France. 2) The British did not attack without warning, they engaged in talks with the Fren
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Possible, I haven't seen any other documentation on what happened. But if it happened the way you describe it, I do understand the French commander. Had he sailed the ships to the US or UK, we can be
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@BroDrillard The ultimatum to intern the fleet or scuttle it happened after the Franco-German armistice. There was no idea of using it against Germany and Vichy France was going to be a pseudo-ally of Germany anyways.
The attack was totally justified from the British perspective. The French would ALSO have been totally justified if they had declared war on Britian after the attack, but that didn't happen unfortunately.
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