“The 75mm is firing. The 37mm is firing but pointed the wrong way. The Browning is jammed. I am saying “Driver advance!” On the A set and the driver—who can’t hear me—is reversing. And as I look over the top of the turret to see a dozen enemy tanks—50 yards away—someone hands me a cheese sandwich.”
The ships spent most of their careers assigned to the Mediterranean Squadron (Escadre de la Méditerranée). They had oddly eventful peacetime careers as they were involved in four accidental collisions among them, one of which sank a French submarine with all hands
Charlemagne-class pre-dreadnoughts Gaulois and Saint Louis.
There is a weird segment of people who love to make it very clear they are "against the actions of the Israeli government", like every other sentence they make it a point that this is about "the Israeli government" which is boring but also ignorant because it pretends as if everything that is happening is only the Israeli government’s fault.
As if it was the Israeli government who marched out of settlements and set children and families on fire.
As if it was the Israeli government who is protesting at the Gaza border trying to prevent aid trucks from entering.
As if it was the Israeli government that burnt thousand year old olive trees and shot the people harvesting them in the chest.
As if it was the Israeli government that went into the Ibrahimi Mosque at dawn and committed a massacre killing 28 worshippers.
As if it was the Israeli government who went out with lawn chairs to sit on hilltops to watch and cheer as bombs dropped on Gaza.
As if it was the Israeli government posting TikToks mocking and celebrating Palestinian deaths.
There is a reason they are so eager to pose their opposition to be “against the Israeli government” because they need to pretend that it is only the "current Israeli government" at fault in order to maintain the illusion that Israel isn’t a genocidal entity to its core.