Sarkozy opens French military base in Abu Dhabi

[vtc31]

The Emirati people welcome the French army into the UAE

[fixdeluxe1]

Looks like France is making a geo-political comeback.

[gopconservative78]

This is just another place for the French to surrender to.

[J8g1]

lol

[delamotteh]

lol ! go back to school ! You are rude and arrogant!

[Siavash911]

LOL... Am I the only one who finds it absolutely hillarious that out of all the western powers, France has set up a base in UAE? When did they become a force to reckon with?

France has probably lost more wars throughout its history than any other country on the planet. They just like to stick their noses where they don't belong.

If it wasn't because of US and UK liberating them in WWII they would still know the Horst Wessel song by heart.

[daftever]

lol an other canadian dumbass :) funny... "the FRENCH beat the romans back 2x before defeated, beat the muslims back 3x never lost.

they whipped the germanic powers 13 out of 19 battles. beat the english in battles over 20x (about even in won losses with england) but france conquerered ALL of england in 1066. Whipped the spanish 6 out of 8 battles the turks 7? out of 9. the russians 7x out of 10. the french even defeated a vatican army."

[daftever]

"France conquered the whole european continent at a time were Europe was the most civilized place. Britain only conquered tiny islands, "empty" lands or backward people armed with bows and arrows...

but never? a civilized land. And French lords ruled England for centuries, English try to do the same but you certainly know Joan of Ark... "

Here we go :)

[scarff94]

correction mate, the normans ruled over england for centuries, normans arent french, normans meaning northmen are vikings who colononised normandie around 800AD, so it wasnt the french who ruled england it was was northmen again :)

and england ruled northern france for centuries.

and india which is massive compared to england. and england beat the french just as much as the french beat the english, pretty equal, though nowadays britain is doing far more military wise.

[daftever]

that's not what i learn and what i can read on books and on the internet...anyway i don't really care about a thing that happened 1000 years ago.

And you should know that there is a lot of french soldiers all over africa so thats why there isn't much french soldiers in astan but im done with debating about my coutry.

anglo-saxon hate the french and i guess theres nothing that i can do to change that... so peace man. "fuck the cheese eating surrender monkey. french are cowards." is that correct?

[scarff94]

yeah theres nothing the french and english like about each other and i doubt there ever will. the problem with the english is that they hate everyone because everyone hates them with some exeptions, i was just joking with the cheese eating part :)

and britain is more of a power military wise, but in need of new equipment.

[scarff94]

but mate seriously its just jokes these days, the french are alright. just abit of friendly rivalry.

mon copain.

[tounecaneton]

@scarff94 hello.i'm half norman.and i can tell you that the northmen were a band of raiders that were given a territory(that was named normandy for this reason).they ruled on it but didn't really represent the all normandy.after a few generation they were mixed with the local population that was..french..then, william conquered england,yes. william was purely of norse blood.but his army was french.then,the plantagenet family was not norman.england normdy and aquitaine were just their heirdom.

[tounecaneton]

@scarff94 in fact considering that normans are not french is like considering that the population of british territories where danish and norwegians ruled is not british.

then, i don't say it for propaganda or for pride. there was also a matter of factions. and as we all know, the feudal system is a nasty way to organize countries and folks. it seems like we are still suffering of its results x)

[s0undActivist]

i'm glad there is people as stupid as you, so other people can feel better about themselves

[ItalianKid2030]

is that all you know "the US saved Europe" crap? lmao you should read a little more.

[zaphod2036]

We transfer tactical nuclear strike capacity to the ME (we already have strategical strike capacity with the subs) through cruise missiles (SCALP-NAVAL). That will cool down some and relieve part of the US burden to keep order in the region. Too bad that the UK can't follow...

[trilocation]

Démence rising, slowly, surely rising.

[trilocation]

From the start, I've always considered Sarkozy as a troll - or the perfect petite ordure prétentieuse. Another psychopath in power.

[jerkinp]

The people across the Middle East region will see them as occupiers. The only people worried about Iran are the tyrants that the West support and lovingly call "moderates". What happened in Lebanon is going to repeat.