François Valentin
@Valen10Francois
🇫🇷 analyst with an eye for a good map-based story (DMs open for media) Musings on 🇨🇳 Schwarzman Scholar Host @undecencypod ex-@EurasiaGroup @ukonward
One of my biggest pet peeves: When old historic maps overlap with modern political maps. A 🧵
France every 3.5 months spends as much in pensions as Russia annually on its military !!
Les dépenses militaires russes sont impressionnantes... Mais c'est seulement 3 mois et demi de dépenses de retraite en France.
Les réparations que la France a touchées de l'Allemagne après la Première Guerre mondiale auraient couvert 40 à 50 jours de dépenses de retraite actuelles.
🤣 the Louisiana purchase could have funded France's pension model for 6 hours
Avec la vente de la Louisiane, Napoléon aurait pu financer nos dépenses de retraite pendant 6 heures !
In 1920, this historian managed to predict World War II step by step! He called out the Anschluss and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact included, by reading maps and history books Buckle up, in this 🧵 we will explore the most prophetic book ever written in history
En bleu les pays dont le PIB est inférieur au coût annuel des retraites en France
Le PIB de l'Algérie c'est 6 mois et demi de dépenses de retraite. Exercice amusant !
In deserts there are 2 things that survive: scorpions and the French Foreign legion Nowhere was this more true than at Camaron where the Legion was outnumbered 33-1 and fought to the last man Here's the story of France's forgotten invasion of Mexico and the battle of Camaron
French cavalry has evolved since the days of Napoleon
