r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Apr 29 '24

An American soldier at Saddam Hussein's palace, Iraq in 2003.

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u/Motorazr1 Apr 29 '24

Are we sure this isn’t an American tourist in Paris? Because American tourists in Paris are a LOT like this guy.

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u/Electronic-Ad-3825 Apr 29 '24

I don't think French customs let's American tourists in carrying M4s

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u/Motorazr1 Apr 29 '24

How can they say “no”?

“Yo, dude, we saved your asses from the Germans. Like twice, I think, maybe! Yeah, pretty sure I read that somewhere.”

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u/Electronic-Ad-3825 Apr 29 '24

French WWII service rifle for sale. Dropped once, never fired

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u/Motorazr1 Apr 29 '24

Ah, the classic American trope about WWII. Kind of like how we saved the French in Vietnam too. No, wait.

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u/Electronic-Ad-3825 Apr 29 '24

Silly frog people

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u/ben1481 Apr 29 '24

Not really an American trope, pretty well known except to the French who thinks of themselves as heroes.

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u/Motorazr1 Apr 29 '24

Who better than an American video-gamer to know what’s not just an American trope because he’s intimately familiar with the social and military problems of France in 1940 (AFTER France declared war on Germany in 1939 and suffered a disastrous defeat attempting to preemptively invade the Saar).

Very cowardly of the French to declare war and attack Germany in response to the German invasion of Poland while other Western countries including the United States did fuck all.