French foreign policy in the EE - a real change or an illusion ?

[The Wizard]

And do you remember why this French alliance with Poland came into being? Because France was the only power to come to Poland's aid in its war against the Soviets in 1920, wasn't it?

Apart from other sorts of aid, like facilitating and transporting the so-called Blue Army of Polish exiles to the Polish battlefield, the French also sent four hundred military advisors of their own. Among them a certain Charles de Gaulle who was awarded Poland's highest military order for his role in the fighting near the Zbrucz river and was subsequently offered a military career in Poland.

All nice, but you're leaning over dangerously close to the whole "France won the war against the Soviets for Poland" myth. And, uh, I think you forgot something: namely that France wasn't the only one clenching the proverbial butt cheeks tight 'cause of them commies taking stuff over in good old Russia, suddenly making peace with the evil Jerries and being all radical and revolutionary and all that.

And, well, heh -- the Franco-Polish alliance, huh? Only to encircle that evil Hunnish devil that humiliated France so dearly in 1871 and then had to be kept as weak as possible after 1918. After a while, it became a nice cordon sanitaire against that other threatening force: the USSR. Finally, as for "coming to Poland's aid" in 1939: Phoney War, anybody? You call that aid?