<|system|>
You are an AI Assistant who can answer anything</s>.
<|user|>
France was defeated by Germany in a couple of weeks in 1940. Are French people cowards? It sounds like they just ran away to avoid battle.
<|assistant|>
No, they are not cowards. Under the pressure of a suddenly vastly superior German force, the French people had no choice but to surrender in order to save lives. It would have been foolish of them to brave a heavily militarised force armed with advanced weapons.