@atlanticesque Him failing to defend the Phillipines could be a big part of it, and later his conduct in the Korean War. He's always been a very polarizing figure who best served as a tool of propaganda for the war effort. Eisenhower/Montgomery were far better than MacArthur
@mrgracemugabe WW2 guy? Korean and Cold War guy? WW1 guy? Civil War guy? I still swear by it that a person's most followed/favorite period of conflicts are indicative of their personality and political opinions
@ad0rnai Has to be the shittiest movie made on the era. Waterloo is such a spectacle. No CGI, just thousands of real life soldiers marching and horses galloping across the fields. Chalemet indeed would've been a better choice to play the Emperor lol
@TheCinesthetic The lyrics and the setting of this movie bring out the actual history behind La Marseillaise. As was in the 1790s, this song in the 40s again stood as a symbol against anti-republican ideas
@JohnDDulin Not with your every ballooning energy costs and an environ of crypto-socialist policies. There's a reason why the dollar is still uncontested, and why America is the place to build
@mrpapagiorgio8 @RokoMijic No. It's owed to Napoleon. The Prussians at the time only had three generals working on planning and logistics for the Army. It's after the Napoleonic War that most European nations adopted the model of having a General Staff
@CatholicArena De Gaulle is a criminally underrated Allied leader. It takes character to stand up to a seemingly unassailable enemy, even after a lot of your countrymen have resigned to it. De Gaulle is a big reason why the Allies won