France had a huge parade today to celebrate Bastille Day.

[Ocelot II]

500 military personnel from 35 countries, including a large contingent from Ukraine, but mostly NATO countries, plus aircraft from Germany, the UK, Poland, Denmark, Greece, Sweden, Norway, Spain and Italy, took part. https://apnews.com/article/france-bastille-day-ukraine-troops-parade-d78621ef18de51b16c8ab99e2bf43f4b

Guess which NATO member wasn't represented.

[SheltieLover]

1. Pootin's useful idiot didn't participate. Shame on him

[Jack Valentino]

21. He's too worried about his own 'Bastille Day' coming---

and he should be!

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Glad that they showcased Ukraine.....they are carrying the flame of Democracy.

[underpants]

3. And a World Cup semifinal

That didn’t go so well.

[Ocelot II]

5. I hope Spain wins the final because Trump will have to present the trophy.

[underpants]

6. That would be funny. 😄

[Cha]

14. Before he steals it? nt.

[Deuxcents]

4. It wasn't about him so he didn't care to recognize it

[Ocelot II]

7. And the Arc de Triomphe is a real thing, while the Arc de Trump is just his tacky wet dream.

[lapucelle]

8. Remember that time when Boba Fett showed up at the parade?

[littlemissmartypants]

9. I hope he wasn't invited so he didn't have the opportunity to decline the invitation.

[Ocelot II]

11. He probably didn't want to see a parade that he tried to outdo but couldn't.

"The centerpiece is the Paris parade beneath the Napoleon-era Arc de Triomphe and along the Champs-Elysees, which inspired Trump to stage his own parade last year."

Remember that parade? The one hardly anybody went to? The one with the squeaky tank? He might not want to be reminded.

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Yes. It was pitiful and hilarious. ❤️

[Cha]

15. On his birthday. nt

[calimary]

16. Even better!

[DFW]

10. France obviously knew that Spain would knock them out of the World Cup

And the game was held in the USA, so of course we weren’t represented at their celebration. They had advance knowledge of the outcome, you see, and they blame us.

[BigmanPigman]

13. July 14th Bastille Day...I'll be celebrating France's victories

and hoping for my own country will STAND UP and FIGHT BACK!!!

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[question everything]

22. Thank you. I did not realize that it is so bloody and vengeful

[WarGamer]

17. I'm still surpised it is celebrated... French Revolution was a failure that led to a dictatorship

The founders ended up killing each other and it was a clusterfuck.

[electric_blue68]

18. Liberte, Egalite, Fratetnite! ....

The title takes away the ?inflected - é!

Once I went to a Bastille Day celebration held on several blocks in Manhattan NYC by a famous French Language & cultural school.

Other times on along stretch of Smith St in Brooklyn when I lived not too far away from there they also hold one including with a few blocks set ups of the French ground game - petanque. A long slightly blocked off rectangle with ?sand. People toss a hollow metal ball (boule) as close as possible to a wooden ball.

Near the end of the festival is a French Pastry shop with light sandwiches as well that sets up tables that was started by a French immigrant!
Good times!

[Bev54]

19. I was in Paris on Bastille days some 21 years ago

We didn't go to the parade because the underground was too crowded so we decided to sit it out. Low and behold the parade came to us, they got lost and came down the street of our hotel, which was the Bastille hotel on Bastille square. We had a front row seat, nobody was there, we could walk up and pet the horses. The military had a map out on the hood of their jeep trying to find where they should be. It was wonderful, we had a great time, but I wouldn't want to count on them to find their way if we needed them.

[Jack Valentino]

20. AMERICA will have a 'BASTILLE DAY' soon----- if the

asshole 'in charge' keeps pushing it--- !!!!

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