Terry Pratchett put it best.

Kink is adding some horseraddish to your beef sandwich. Fetish is adding so much you don’t even notice the beef has fallen out.

Despite some very famous recent losses, France historically tended to go to war with and win against just about everyone on the continent, as such everyone got a bit salty about it. These days its just more of a meme.

Three times. They voted for this maniac three times. Only once they failed to get him into office, and when they did have the opportunity to do anything they utterly failed to act.

Both sides have a vast amount of work to do before they even get back to neutral.