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Just a reminder that it took the US years to join the Second World War while the UK was pounded by the Nazis. Canada joined the war nine days after it began. Remember who your friends are. The US isn't anyone's friend but it's own.
Hijacking this post to say: there are too many Americans in this thread arguing about the second world war, somehow apparently suggesting the US is not an untrustable former ally, now ally of Russian oligarchs and strongmen, rather than the important story itself.
Why not shut the fuck up if you don't have anything relevant to say?
That's not really a fair comparison, Canada wasn't a fully independent country in 1939, they were still a dominion of the British empire with foreign policy set from London (though otherwise self ruling).
Then why did it take 9 days?
Also from the link:
At the outbreak of war, Canada's commitment to the war in Europe was limited by the government to one division, and one division in reserve for home defence.
Canada did not intend to get involved to the extent they did at the start. That changed after the Battle of Dieppe in 1942, along with other events.
Canada entered the was 9 days after it started. The US entered the war 820 days later.
Canada went and fought while the US sat and watched.
And they had to be dragged into it by the japanese
Bombed into it.
Fuck America
To be fair Russia is at war with the US as well, just they've captured the government
US was never anyone's ally. They're just the Tony Stark of our universe, selling weapons and propagating war, and seeing themselves as the hero. J'espère qu'ils crèvent aussi au final 🙄.
Can I get paid to state the bleeding obvious?
"The foreign policy expert, a longtime Russia watcher, said she had first made a similar warning in 2015, in a revised version of a book she wrote about the Russian president "
I think in fairness that if she has been warning us for 10 years she's entitled to a little bit of "I told you so" now that it is bleedingly obvious
Duh?