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> Yet they stood by the USA in all their fair or unfair endeavors in the Middle East. France and Germany both openly opposed the US on the Iraq war [1], France
by rKarpinski 2y ago
> Yet they stood by the USA in all their fair or unfair endeavors in the Middle East.
France and Germany both openly opposed the US on the Iraq war [1], France even threatened to veto any UN resolutions for an invasion. Hence the whole "Freedom Fries" thing [2]
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/22/germany.france https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/22/germany.france
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries
- preommr 2y agoTurns out they were right on multiple levels. Canada supported the US wholeheartedly, and now we're being threatened with annexation. Thanks, America.
- atlintots 2y agoPerhaps it's justice that Canada experience the very thing they supported the US for in Iraq.
- thrance 2y agoThat's a twisted kind of justice.
- rKarpinski 2y agoCanada actually didn't support the Iraq war either, it-least officially [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-National_Force_%E2%80%93_Iraq https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-National_Force_%E2%80%93...
- nick__m 2y agoCanada did not support the 2003 Iraq invasion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_the_Iraq_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_the_Iraq_War
- atlintots 2y agoI'm happy to learn that.
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