I don't agree with bombing of Vatican. it must be capured by hand and the archives secured and published.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2025
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Knowing no french I'm gonna try to translate
"With agreement with our italian friends we would profit from vacating the Vatican with a special operation against the city, abolish the absolute monarchy and proclaim the People's Republic of the Vatican"
That's pretty good, the only thing I would change is "La vacance du pouvoir Vaticanais" as Vatican's power vacuum
vatican? more like vatican't
I think it says something like "Together with our Italian friends, let us make use of the Vatican leader's absence to launch a special operation in the city, abolish the absolute monarchy and proclaim the People's Republic of Vatican" but I don't actually know French
I don't understand how Europeans pretend to not understand each other, like you have to be lying if you don't understand it instantly
Writing is much easier than speech
I think partially it's that people's eyes just sort of glaze over when they see a foreign language, because they're afraid a false friend or wrong context-based assumption will screw them over, or because they're otherwise just expecting it to be harder.
Not to mention that being able to parse French like this for me is making use of knowledge of several different languages which loaned different French words at different times and might use the same loans differently; as well as making use of my past exposure to French; so a text like this might be harder to parse for someone with less exposure to French, and fewer other (esp. Western European) languages under their belt.
My native language is a romance language, so I can make an educated guess in one of those most of the time and be 80% accurate, more or less. Same with germanic languages, but that's because I know English and studied German in college. But from there to confidently translate stuff or be certain I'm not falling to the traps u mentioned, there's a really long way.
Then, trying that with the linguistic lacunae that are languages like Basque, Balkan languages, Finnish, Russian, Polish, and so on, it's impossible.
I'm in
Marx turned Hegel on his head. St Peter was crucified upside-down.
I'm not saying there's a connection. But there is.
Unlimited tanks on Vatikkkan City
How to cause the biggest schism catholicism has ever seen
Simply take the Vatican instead of sieging it.
La république populaire du Vatican
Now here's an idea
My attempt at a translation:
En accord avec - In accordance with
nos amis italians - (amis? is that similar to when I hear people say 'mon amis', which I assume means my friend?) our Italian friends
nous pourrions profiter - noose potpourri profit
de la vacance - of the vacation
du pouvoir Vaticanais - of (gibberish) Vatican mayonnaise
pour lancer une operation speciale - pour lancer one special operation
sur la cite - surly city
abolir la monarchie absolue - abolish the absolute monarchy
et proclamer la republique populaire du vatican - and proclaim the popular republic of the Vatican
So:
In accordance with our Italian friends, noose potpourri profit of the vacation of (gibberish) Vatican mayonnaise, pour lancer one special operation in the surly city, and abolish the absolute monarchy and proclaim the popular republic of the Vatican.
God the French are weird
no.. 
Machine translation: In agreement with our Italian friends, we could take advantage of the Vatican power vacuum to launch a special operation on the city, abolish the absolute monarchy and proclaim the Vatican People's Republic
Yep that's exactly what it says. Didn't expect it to get «power vacuum» right.
The French are still mad at the US for the French Revolution and now there's an American pope. Coincidence?!?