Comment on Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain

vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  France and Britain have a long history of warfare.

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  • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think it would be easier to list the periods where France and Britain were NOT at war which each other rather than the opposite.

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    • heavydust@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think they still deserve some invasion for their awful food (jelly and honey glazed carrots). They need some education and it can only happens with some kind of war.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Amazing insight…

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  • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Warfare and invasion are not the same thing.

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    • athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Are you saying the British never sent troops into French territory? Any incursion by armed forces into another state’s territory is the very definition of invasion.

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    • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      There’s been a lot of occupation as well. E.g. the hundred year war.

      If we can say Russia invaded Ukraine, England invaded France

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    • Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You’re trying to be a pedant, yet you appear foolish.

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• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Germany, and probably Austria: World War 2

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  • LarsIsCool@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Weird to exclude Luxembourg from that as they were also occupied by Germany and freed by the Allied forces

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Italy probably WW2 (operation dragoon)

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• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Maybe they are counting any wars where the British fought? If so, the two world wars would account for a lot of it.

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Still Switzerland? We weren’t invaded in WW2 or WW1.

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    • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Switzerland was a part of the wars of the 2nd, 5th and 6th coalition against Napoleon against the British.

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  • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, they are. It’s bullshit.

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• Redredme@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Rampjaar. 1672. We where the dutch republic back then so it included belgium, Luxembourg. We had a lot of wars before and after between us and the English in which the english took a lot of our colonies by fotce.

  Belgium was “invaded” during WW1 and again during WW2.

  Spain: ever heard of Gibraltar?

  The English fucked with everyone who had a ship back then.

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• ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  • Netherlands - Holmes’ Bonfire, 1666
  • Belgium - Napoleonic wars — Waterloo
  • France - (as England) 1230, 1337-60, 1369-89, 1373, 1415-53, 1562, (as Britain) 1794, 1795, 1813, 1815, 1944
  • Germany - 1914-18, 1944-5
  • Spain - 1808-14

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• leftascenter@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Parts of probably, e.g. Gibraltar

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