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Re: France's baby bust

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Britain was mostly able to fight because the French fleet was sunk which shielded them from a massive invasion and Russia weakened France. By themselves they wouldn’t have done much.

Britain sank the French fleet. How is that "not doing much?" Britain expelled France from Egypt. Britain powered the Pensinsular War. By themselves.

And, well, most of the Coalitions were almost exclusively funded by generous British subsidies. To Austria, Prussia, Sweden, Russia, and a couple dozen of minor powers. Industry made Britain able to afford that.

"In terms of soldiers the French numerical advantage was offset by British subsidies that paid for a large proportion of the Austrian and Russian soldiers, peaking at about 450,000 in 1813."

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_in_the_Napole...

Re: France's baby bust

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post #151

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Interestingly, France happens to have among the highest fertility rates in Europe today. Doesn't seem to be more religious though.

France fertility rate are boosted by its Muslim population ( https://mythdetector.ge/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/inline-im... )

It's non-Muslim fertility rate is also among the highest in Europe.

Re: France's baby bust

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With so many orthodox jews there will also be barely any workforce left

Orthodox ≠ Haredi

Right, Haredi are an ultra orthodox subset of Orthodox Judaism, but they are often wrongly equated like I did. Too late to edit my comment now though
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