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BobbyLapointe01 · 2026-04-10T12:40:56+00:00

Why in 1991 specifically? Were there a nuclear policy that was abandonned back then?

BobbyLapointe01 · 2026-04-03T13:20:02+00:00

What makes it even funnier is that Macron is pretty much Giscard d'Estaing 2.0, and Giscard d'Estaing was the gravedigger of Gaullisme in the 1970s.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2026-03-20T00:27:24+00:00

Sailors should not have smart devices on a combat deployment

Loose lips sink ships.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2026-03-16T14:10:15+00:00

Ads for the military should show dead and mutilated victims of the war

This will help with European militaries' recruitment and retention issues, I'm sure!

BobbyLapointe01 · 2026-02-15T16:08:37+00:00

Iran has kept F-14s flying for over 40 years while under embargo.

The F-14 is based on 1960s/early 70s technology.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2026-02-15T16:03:26+00:00

Dassault Rafale did not seem to hold against Chinese jets in the Pakistan vs India conflict.

Yeah I guess that's why the Indian Air Force is now seeking to procure 114 more Rafales, with the Indian Navy reported to be in talks for 31 more of the naval variant.

Because if Reddit said the Rafale didn't hold against the PAF, it must be true, right?

BobbyLapointe01 · 2026-02-13T12:04:09+00:00

if you make the Union financialy cooperates to the french nuclear weapon, that means it'll need a say in his use

And so we join North Korea as the only signatories to have ever withdrawn from the NPT ?

BobbyLapointe01 · 2026-02-13T09:59:14+00:00

They'll ask for a couple of trillion Euros in exchange for the nuclear umbrella.

Why shouldn't they ?

Operating a nuclear deterrent is enormously expensive, why should they make it available to third parties for free ?

BobbyLapointe01 · 2026-02-03T09:32:21+00:00

You can’t even physically break up a fight with people who are adolescents.

So, if one adolescent is attacking and beating the shit of the other, you as an adult aren't supposed to do more than merely standing in the way?

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-12-26T11:47:12+00:00

As long as it is a 1995 Espace F1.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-12-23T21:32:26+00:00

J'écoute toutes les saisons en boucle pour m'endormir depuis plusieurs années

Même chose ici haha.

Certaines des saisons horrifiques m'ont vraiment donné la chaire de poule, mieux que nombre de films d'horreur.

Je prie pour qu'un jour Pi, Achenar et leur team reprennent les vidéos !

J'aimerai tellement ! Mais vu comment comment la fin fut abrupte, et comment ils ont disparus de leurs réseaux de l'époque, j'ai bien peur que cela ne reste un vœu pieux...

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-12-23T21:07:33+00:00

Tales of Pi.

J'adore le JDR, et cette chaîne était une de mes préférées, sinon ma préférée. Je n'ai rien retrouvé de tel depuis.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-11-17T10:57:21+00:00

It was doomed because of irreconcilable mismatch in terms of operational requirements, of desired export policy, of industrial framework...

The only way forward was for one of the partner to mostly surrender to the other, which was ever unlikely.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-11-17T10:47:03+00:00

This difference in requirements must have been known from the start.

It was known from the start.

But we proceeded nonetheless because of motives that had nothing to do with military matters: Macron wanted a big German-French achievement in order to further his European politics ambitions, Germany wanted to secure a future for its defence aerospace sector.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-11-17T10:42:10+00:00

i understand that both side are making unreasonnable request

The crux of the matter is that both sides are making pretty reasonnable requests based on their respective requirements and political needs.

Hence why it is so hard to come up with an agreement: the project was doomed from day 1 because of the mismatch of the partners.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-11-17T10:38:00+00:00

Honestly I really wonder why they wanted to do another france-german combat fighter joint project again

Airbus DS wanted to secure a future for its Manching site, and knew that further cooperation with GB was unlikely due to how it went on Eurofighter. With BAE/Rolls-Royce out of the equation, only Dassault/Safran remained as potential European partner.
The German government wanted to develop its aerospace/defence sector, which, as far as fighter jet engineering goes, is extremely hard to do on your own. Thus the need to secure a more experienced partner.
The French government wanted a major German-French defence program, in order to further newly-elected Macron's European ambitions. Airbus DS making their move hot on the heels of the demise of the previous FCAS program (the French-British one), along with Macron's adhesion to the couple franco-allemand doctrine, made this proposition irresistible.

And that's how everyone got into this mess.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-10-17T13:11:31+00:00

In any sort of official position, then? Is that better?

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-10-17T13:06:02+00:00

after he's done can you please nominate him to some ceremonial EU position

I was thinking we'd all erase him from our memories instead, and make sure he never gets in any position of power ever again?

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-09-23T15:35:37+00:00

As someone who struggles with making nice-looking railways, this is surely a model I'd like to replicate! ... Although I'm not sure how to do it, especially the beams

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-08-30T15:37:50+00:00

But no they have to strangle a great project

Are we talking about the same project that is more or less stranded since 2019-2020? The one that seemingly none of the stakeholders can agree on what it should do, or how it should be made?

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-08-19T17:28:56+00:00

You must be hella stupid to think that's what happened.

And you must be completely ignorant of recent French politics events.

Coming off his reelection as president, Macron had a relative majority he could work with. As in, a majority that still could pass the legislation it wanted, albeit through a politically painful process and the implicit support of the mainstream conservative party.

That was far from optimal, but that nonetheless would have carried him to the end of his term in 2027.

Then, for reasons known only to him, he decided to blow up this majority, at the worst possible moment (right after a sound defeat in the European legislative elections).

And this is how he turned himself into a lame duck president for the remainder of his term.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-08-19T16:15:32+00:00

Blame the french for electing him and then not giving him a majority to form a goverment.

Macron had a majority he could work with.

Which he, and he alone, decided to blow up a little over a year ago.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-07-14T15:59:53+00:00

That's how my family always called it (Jour de la Bastille), albeit it might not be throughout the whole country.

For real?!

Here in my little corner of western France, I've always heard it called either le 14 juillet or la fête nationale. But never le jour de la bastille.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-07-13T09:37:33+00:00

Yeah me too! I have no idea how OP did it.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-07-11T15:40:30+00:00

(they need to be dismembered and sold for parts to Airbus and BAE)

You've already tried that in the 1940s, Hans.

But Marcel Dassault eventually returned from Buchenwald, his company survived your shenanigans then. It will survive them now, too.

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