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@blackn1ght@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish • 2 days ago

Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says

www.theguardian.com

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Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says

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@blackn1ght@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish • 2 days ago
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Government defence expert Fiona Hill warns UK to respond to threats by becoming more cohesive and resilient
  • Maple Engineer
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    14•1 day ago

    Canada, 9 days.

    US, 829 days.

    For those 820 days the rest of the world, including Canada, was sending its young men to fight and die for freedom.

    The US sat and watched.

    • @LilB0kChoy@midwest.social
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      More false information. Let’s see who entered WWII at, or after December, 1941.

      • Phillipines
      • China
      • Guatemala
      • Haiti
      • Dominican Republic
      • Honduras
      • Cuba
      • El Salvador
      • Costo Rica
      • Brazil
      • Bolivia
      • Mexico

      Sure looks like most of the western hemisphere didn’t join until after the war came to their part of the world.

      I wonder who remained neutral?

      • Turkey
      • Spain
      • Afghanistan
      • Argentina
      • Yemen
      • Saudi Arabia
      • Sweden
      • Portugal
      • Switzerlamd
      • Ireland
      • Uriguay
      • Lithuania
      • Latvia
      • Estonia
      • Bhutan
      • Iceland
      • Andorra
      • Liechtenstein
      • Monaco
      • San Marino
      • Vatican City

      Any other lies you’d like to tell?

      • @Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca
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        7•18 hours ago

        This is a super weird deflection and it should be called out.

        • @LilB0kChoy@midwest.social
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          2•14 hours ago

          The person I responded to made a claim that everyone else in the world was fighting in WWII but not the US.

          Thats simply not true.

      • @Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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        5•17 hours ago

        Your list is full of fucking holes. The Philippines was a US colony before Japan invaded, Spain was fascist and assisted the fascist, Switzerland played both sides by moving money, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were occupied by the fucking Soviets and you Americans did not say shit about it and sold them off after the war.

        • @LilB0kChoy@midwest.social
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          2•15 hours ago

          The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, jointly declared their neutrality on 18 November 1938, in Riga, at the Conference of Baltic Foreign Ministers with their respective parliaments passing neutrality laws later that year. Despite that, all of them were occupied twice by the Soviet Union and once by Nazi Germany.

          Spain, whose civil war had just ended at the beginning of World War II, sent troops to the Russian front to help German armed forces. I don’t think they ever declared war.

          Nazis purchased critical war material from neutral countries using Swiss francs gained in exchange for gold looted by the Nazis from occupied countries and from individual victims of concentration camps. Switzerland continued to trade until the end of the war in 1945.

          The Phillipines was attacked 9 hours after Pearl Harbor on 12/7 and did not declare war but was drawn into it as a result of the attack. The US declared war on 12/8 and had war declared back on 12/11.

      • Maple Engineer
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        11•1 day ago

        829 days.

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