They've got a huge case of the been-blown-to-bits-twice and had-to-be-rescued-by-the-US twice goos. I sorta wish nowdays that we'd kept our neutrality in World War 1. Germany might have carved off some of France (if they'd won) or France might have carved off some of Germany (if France/England had won) but at least they wouldn't have had this massive inferiority complex.