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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 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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