Why didn't the French just extend the Maginot line?

you cant just build walls to protect from foreign invaders, thats pretty racist

because the water table was too high to build the massive underground fortifications seen in the maginot line

why do you think they call it the low countries, there's water everywhere

Belgium complained about it and took it as a hostility for them so they didn't. The French didn't argue with it because they assumed the German tanks wouldn't be able pass through the Argonne forest.

What France should have done was financed a better eastern Belgium border supplied with the best french weapons.

>>2799716
What if the german digged under?

>>2799749
Why give a fuck about what the Belgians think? Why was it even a country?

>>2799716

Belgium complained about it. True story. France could have ignored their petty objections, but unfortunately they did not.

>>2799763
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>>2799749
fuck Belgium

>muh Belgian forts

Funny how Belgium's objection to extending the line at their border actually forced Hitler to go through Belgium

>>2799873
actually that was preferable to the alternative for Belgium

France's plan was to have the war between them and Germany take place entirely on belgian soil which would have devastated the country completely. Also they ran out of money for their fortifications and demanded belgium help pay for forts that wouldn't protect them in any way

>>2800040

>France's plan was to have the war between them and Germany take place entirely on belgian soil which would have devastated the country completely

Isn't that basically what happened in WW1?

>>2799763

The monarchies of Europe were pissed after Napoleon slaughtered his way through the cream of the nobility and the only answer they could come up with was a "choke their trenches with our dead" strategy.

>>2799716
Literally every question involving modern France's failings just goes back to the revolution. Bloodthirsty maniacs completely destroyed the country, the end.