Germany, and probably Austria: World War 2
Comment on Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 10 months ago
Hmmm.
When were Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain , Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Austria or Romania invaded by the British?
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
LarsIsCool@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Weird to exclude Luxembourg from that as they were also occupied by Germany and freed by the Allied forces
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Italy probably WW2 (operation dragoon)
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Maybe they are counting any wars where the British fought? If so, the two world wars would account for a lot of it.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Still Switzerland? We weren’t invaded in WW2 or WW1.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 10 months ago
Switzerland was a part of the wars of the 2nd, 5th and 6th coalition against Napoleon against the British.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yeah, they are. It’s bullshit.
Redredme@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
leftascenter@jlai.lu 10 months ago
Parts of probably, e.g. Gibraltar
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 10 months 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
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 10 months ago
France and Britain have a long history of warfare.
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 10 months 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.
heavydust@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Amazing insight…
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 10 months ago
Warfare and invasion are not the same thing.
athairmor@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 10 months 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
Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You’re trying to be a pedant, yet you appear foolish.