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European nations, in contrast to the Americas, have been fighting bloody wars between them constantly forever.

After WW2 the EU was formed with the goal of stopping the bloodshed. Germans and French became friends!

Europe outsourced their defense to the USA, and instead they started paying NATO and buying defense equipment from US companies.

Yet they stood by the USA in all their fair or unfair endeavors in the Middle East.

The first time that the EU called for actual help, the US seems aligned with Russia.

Things don’t look good.



> 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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries


Turns out they were right on multiple levels. Canada supported the US wholeheartedly, and now we're being threatened with annexation.

Thanks, America.


Perhaps it's justice that Canada experience the very thing they supported the US for in Iraq.


Canada did not support the 2003 Iraq invasion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_the_Iraq_War


I'm happy to learn that.


Canada actually didn't support the Iraq war either, it-least officially [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-National_Force_%E2%80%93...


That's a twisted kind of justice.




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