Can we expand this to weather forecasters?
For basically everyone who has a spot on the news: weather, politics, finance, sports, music, etc.
They actually do that. Not specifically the forecasters, because they're just the guys delivering the information.
How does that logic work?
If you ever served officially in any military in any capacity, you are a veteran. However, most people that are called veterans of a specific incident/conflict are implying they were actively involved in said thing, which might not be true. There were people, like the National Guard or international base staff, that were military members of the era of a given conflict, but never directly were part of the conflict itself.
Pretty much. Because he was cruising around with a brace of Polaris missiles during the Vietnam war, he's considered a Vietnam veteran and it was even put on his headstone.
Yes, I am aware, but I would not consider a man who didn't serve in country or in support of the actions in theater to be a veteran of the conflict.
I hadn't read as much about that period. I heard they behavied badly in Algiers. But that they were a bit nicer in the Americas?
Napoleon was an incredibly charismatic speaker, an effective emperor and delegater, a decent (but far from flawless) general and military leader, a patriotic Frenchman, and a selfish warmongering bastard.
It's not just about how vile they were, but also about how pathetic they were in their vileness. At least British and German imperialists could honestly claim they were genuinely pretty tough. France was only capable of fighting well when facing helpless civilians or slapdash militias, and go down like a dropped rock when facing any enemy with even the slightest ability to defeat their armies.
It wasn't just napoleon, tallyrand and robesipiere all deserved to be put up against a wall. as did degaulle and petain the great irony is that Bonny is the one who remarked that tallyrand was shit in a silk stocking but of course the irony is that all of these men were impressive political orators all the same and competent organizers of men
Mate, France got its ass beat by North Vietnam. They're the only colonial power to get legitimately beaten and driven out by force. The rest left because they were broke and the US and Soviets forced them to. France defied the US's decrees and tried to fight it out, and that's why they're called the Fifth Republic of France.
I think the Ottomans during it's reshuffling had it better. They kept bits of Greece they took from the Byzantine Empire and kept the capital.
Done by the wealthiest and most populous colonies of British settlers, with copious aid from multiple Great Powers like France and the Netherlands. As opposed to some third rate guerillas fighting with equipment donated by another third world country.
Recover? They got their arse pasted within 6 weeks and then spent the rest sitting with their thumbs up their arse until the Allies liberated Paris. At which point they started acting like they should be counted as one of the Victors despite contributing less than China did.
