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There are plenty of countries with 'socialized' healthcare that had no wars in their territories.
by outworlder 2y ago
There are plenty of countries with 'socialized' healthcare that had no wars in their territories.
- cluckindan 2y agoAnd which countries would those be?
- jiggawatts 2y agoAustralia, New Zealand, etc…
- NegativeLatency 2y agoAdmittedly not a ground war, but that's not entirely true: > In total, there were 97 air attacks on northern Australia, though air reconnaissance was carried out over the region by Axis Powers through much of 1944. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_air_raids_on_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_air_raids_on_Australi... and > German and Japanese surface raiders and submarines operated in New Zealand waters on several occasions in 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943 and 1945, sinking a total of four ships while Japanese reconnaissance aircraft flew over Auckland and Wellington preparing for a projected Japanese invasion of New Zealand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_New_Zealand_during_World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_New_Zealan...
- jjk166 2y agoIf we're counting air attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
- NegativeLatency 2y ago> on the continent
- ceejayoz 2y agoWe had that too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Ellwood?wprov=sfti1# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Ellwood?wprov=s...
- markdown 2y agoAll the Pacific Island countries.
- lamp_book 2y agoCosta Rica
- Jimmc414 2y agoIceland New Zealand Australia Sweden Norway Switzerland Finland (winter war might count)
- cluckindan 2y agoI don’t know if your history books are correct… in WWII, Norway was invaded by Nazi Germany and Finland was even allied with them against the Soviet Union before the Soviets forced Finland to drive the Nazis out of the country.
- ceejayoz 2y agoIceland was invaded by a foreign power (the UK) during WWII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Iceland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Iceland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_occupation_of_Iceland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_occupation_of_Iceland (Very politely, but still...) > Uncomfortable with the crowd, Consul Shepherd turned to the Icelandic police. "Would you mind ... getting the crowd to stand back a bit, so that the soldiers can get off the destroyer?" he asked. "Certainly," came the reply. > One Icelander snatched a rifle from a marine and stuffed a cigarette in it. He then threw it back to the marine and told him to be careful with it. An officer arrived to scold the marine.