Cartoon Demands the government take over of businesses to do war crimes
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You can only "Counter-attack" if you've been attacked. France was not attacked yet when they declared war to Germany and prepared for initial attack. In fact, it was called "Drole de guerre" at the beginning because even though Germany and France were at war, there was barely any conflict.
Renault (French company) was the main supplier of the French army (actual Renault founder got a medal because he was also main supplier during WW1). Otherwise, they also used a bunch of other French companies (Citroen, CLM, etc.) or form other countries like UK. So even if Ford was out, they still had the majority of their armies
Even if they had no vehicles, French lost pathetically because they put all their forces on the "Ligne Maginot", and the German simply went around through Belgium. In fact, it would have maybe made things a little bit faster and reduce losses. If you're going to make such a bad analogy, at least take any other country than France which lost the war in 2 months.
It obviously has nothing to do with civilian-owned intelligence system, which is what Elon is about. It's not "Your army', it's not part of the military force (contrary to army trucks and tanks, or rifles, etc.), it's just some civilian-owned system that the military want to use but have no control over. If Elon Musk was actively building Starlink only for the military as part of their force, then it would be very different. But it's not the case. That's like if the military was using X for their main communication system, Elon would have 100% right to say "Look, I'm going to get killed and my company bombed by your stupid shit, I'm not the army, so get your shit together and get off my platform". Somethinh similar happened though, remember when Ukraine soldiers were bombed because people showed their location on Reddit? Whoops. Almost as if civilian stuff aren't made for war.
I agree on all counts except the third. The French built the Maginot Line specifically to force the Germans to go through Belgium, which was where they intended to fight the German army (thereby ensuring that French soil wouldn't be devastated like it was in WW1) under their strategy, the Dyle Plan (so named after the Dyle River in Belgium). What went wrong was that the Germans punched through the Ardennes forest, which the Allies had mistakenly concluded would be impassable for their panzers and thus left in the hands of their weakest formations to defend. The best units of the French Army were thus left trapped in the Low Countries with only scattered second-rate forces (and no real strategic reserve, since said reserve was committed to fight in Belgium already) left in the way of the German vanguard in France itself, hence, their total defeat shortly afterward.
The French strategy & generals were retarded, but not as retarded as they were in WW1, and to their credit the Dyle Plan was a little more sensible than its equivalent at the start of the latter conflict, Plan XVII.
Thank for the correction, it's been a while and I don't talk about the Maginot line very often, so I got stuff mixed up.