is funny to quote Trad.
When did this happen? It would be so unlikely. Liberals can not accept liberalism so they can not quote anything that reject liberalism.
It was a history changing event, that allowed the US to come to fruition earlier with undoubtedly massive benefits. The action and the result are not quantitatively linked. Easily proved by the size of the French economy today.
Again with that stuff everything else is equal.
Yet if France did not waste money on supporting the US, their fate would have fully changed. Utterly. And again, suggesting that the US would have appeared anyway. Non sense.