Fact is that article is made à la good ol' XIXth century fashion, manipulating history. The guy may have read books but doesn't really know history.
He's showing France as zee evil country that allied with the Ottomans against the Habsburg, showing that zee evil frenchmen have been on zee evil muslims side...
I don't see the problem, as long as it was in the interest of France that was threatened on every side (From Belgium to Switzeland and along the spanish border) by an hegemonic power. We provoked the fall of the Habsburgs/spanish supremacy in Europe, opening the way to the franco-english dmoniation of Europe, good! As far as I know, the fair & courageous Britons allied with the Ottomans back in 1798 against France...
He implies that the US have the monopoly of the support of the polish independance... heh... As far as I know (and the polish players might know it - I'm half polish as well), France has been the constant supporter of the polish independance, from Lezynska to the restaured Poland under Napoleon, the hosting of the polish patriots and troops in France during the XIXth century, WW1 and WW2.
The 1919-20 war was certainly made in a nationalistic optic on the polish side (to gain the eastern territories), but the french were the main supporter of this attack against USSR:by supplying massively Poland with weapons and giving them military advisors, such as Weygand or de Gaulle. But I'm afraid that it didn't fit in the author's idea of zee evil
islamo-commies frenchmen
And finally, as a french-pole myself, I got to regret that Poland is a victim of WW2, yes. I unfortunately lost a whole part of my family during WW2. But Poland didn't really make much to avoid it by;
-signing the non-agression pact with Germany in 1934 and tending on an alliance with it against USSR
-refusing that soviet troops pass on its territory to go help Czechoslovakia in 1938 under the franco-british request. War would have been declared in 1938 if the western Allies were sure that USSR would have joined them. Stalin offered his assistance, his only condition was to be able to transit troops via Poland & Romania. The same scenario happened in 1938-39 during the franco-anglo-soviet negociations for an alliance against Germany.
Each nation has its national interest. Democracies share common values. Iraq and its anemic army was not a threat, just a note on an agenda.
Poland hopped in for its national interest, and that's natural, it's relying on the US for its national security against Russia. France & Germany don't.
