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The amusing thing is France has a storied history being horrible colonizers and interventionists in their former colonies. Like, way more actual colonies than the US ever had, and way worse about it, and several pretty comparable black ops "time-to-overthrow-a-foreign-government-to-make-our-economy-slightly-better" type things. France has never actually be afraid to shed blood for its interests of any moral hue. But because they speak another language and no one can name a single former French colonial territory except the ones in North America, the perception of France in America is mostly constructed of vague pre-modern history recollections and the stupid cauldron of early 00's memes.