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Comment author: Emile 26 October 2014 10:43:57AM 1 point [-]

I'm not saying that friendships would prevent a war, I'm saying that I know people on both sides of the border and that from both point of views the idea of war is ludicrous and unthinkable. The French don't hate the Germans, the Germans don't hate the French, and the kind of flag-waving gun-toting nationalism you'd get in the US or China or Russia is highly unfashionable.

Predicting Franco-German war on a French talk show would probably get you laughed off stage ...

Comment author: Azathoth123 30 October 2014 06:53:45AM 2 points [-]

The French don't hate the Germans

Give them a decade or two under austerity, that will change.