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France is offering intelligence to Ukraine, Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Thursday, a day after Washington said it was suspending intelligence sharing with Kyiv, an effort to step up pressure on Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

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[–] troed@fedia.io 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

So, Actual Freedom Fries now then?

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Fries are Belgian actually.

It is a fucked up time we live when we all have to agree the French are right

[–] Damage@feddit.it 9 points 9 hours ago

Americans inherited British propaganda and gladly perpetuate it, despite France being the country they probably owe the most to.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

de Gaulle smirks Frenchly.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Are we really going to claim that sliced fried potatoes were solely the invention of one particular country?

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

To be honest, Belgian cuisine has literally nothing else going for it, so I feel like we can let them have it. Just like that I feel like EU institutions are in Brussels because nobody will seriously think it makes Brussels more important than Berlin or Paris.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Ok, if we’re being generous. But they already have waffles named after them which no one disputes. And they have sprouts named after them. And chocolates. Actually I think they are pretty well respresented in terms of cuisine. I still think frying a potato is pretty generic though, and can’t realistically be attributed to any single culture or country.