Comment on Has there ever been a country who did not have an enemy or pick a fight? And was pretty much like all of you do you we will do us. kind of like isalationism but charitable when it counted?

DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ooterness@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Canada was an open participant in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, and a clandestine participant in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which kinda sounds like picking a fight to me.

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  • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t have an answer for Afghanistan. We suck. Iraq? My understanding is that we wouldn’t go without a UN resolution which was not forthcoming. We have officers posted in other countries for various exchanges and they fought with their host countries. So we had a few hundred people there in various roles. I don’t know about the clandestine participant but.

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• Crt_static@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hasn’t Canada had to answer for various war crimes?

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  • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We have. Notably during the World Wars. But we didn’t instigate those conflicts. We managed to avoid Viet Nam. We were involved in Korea but that was following a UN resolution.

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• DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Inuit might have something to say. The children found in the mass graves by churches can’t really speak. Canadians speak English & French. Remind me where England and France are, and what their history is with colonialism.

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