Portugal position on the Iraq War was so uncertain they offered aid and support to USA by providing and letting them use Lajes airbase in the Azores, in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. Even let USA held a summit there with Spain and UK to discuss the situation in Iraq days before the invasion
Some people might be too young to remember this bit shit was wild and important to remember. America, as much as it tried to pretty it up with protecting the US and seizing WMD, unashamedly was out for blood,
And since then the majority of Americans hate France and keep repeating the same agenda of the Brits with “white flag”, “freedom fries” and “surrender monkey” memes. Still today.
I wouldn't call it that as much as he joked about how illegitimate the invasion was. Really gives you an idea about the value these warmongers put on life.
Yes i remember USA shaming France for not supporting them, then almost every Americans agreed that it was a super dumb move with very suspicious underlying ambitions. At least all this is how it have been shown in french medias.
Every small business I can think of in my area started calling French Fries "freedom fries", same thing with French Toast etc. Americans bought into that one hook line and sinker.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen (our former prime minister) got his NATO job from this. There is this saying in the EU, that Denmark is the the diplomatic gateway to the US. And that's true - we bend over ro the US when we have to.
Sadam was an awful individual who did terrible things in the 80s but the aggressor here is the US. Also I'm really surprised denmark was in support of this invasion
As an American teenager when this was going on I never realized how much opposition there was, I thought it was more France being difficult and Middle Eastern allies, not half of Europe and the vast majority of the global population
The invasion itself and the reactions from Americans to countries who refused to support (renaming french fries to “freedom fries”) set the tone of a lot of anti Americanism in Europe that’s definitely lingered
As a Swedish teenager at the time, I was out demonstrating against the invasion every other week. We even held a school strike against it. I remember finding a shirt with the American flag in my wardrobe (I think it was a Gant shirt) and thinking “How could I ever wear this?”. I threw it away.
Seems misleading. Was under the impression 27 countries deployed troops to Iraq. Actually just found that out refuting some bullshit in conspiracy a day or two ago.
They always become emotional when you point it out lol. Sure Netherlands you sure have autonomy and aren't the usas bitch. That's why our politics is closely following their and we support almost everything they do without question.
For sure. I was 12 at the time so not exactly an informed member of society, but I do remember these events very clearly. I remember freedom fries and all that shit lol. I was reading recently in
Years later French/US relationship is still deeply marked by this choice. The public opinion of both nations has greatly diminished toward each other and never really recovered.
I was there. I was in the US Army from 1988-2011. I hated why we went there and what we did. All for bogus stories of weapons of mass destructions. How many innocent civilians died because of that?
Thinking back on how the entire mainstream media apparatus was pounding the drums of war even when it was very clear there was little to no actual evidentiary pretext to invade still infuriates me.
Damn, I was young at the time but as a French I remember the US giving us SO MUCH shit for opposing the invasion (freedom fries and all...) it felt we were the only ones opposing the war.
Umm no. Jean Chretien the PM at the time said about WMD, "A proof is a proof, and when it's proven, it's proof." At the time we thought this was hilarious but turns out he was right.
As far as I know, there were some Canadian exchange officers who did participate in the fighting, even though Canada did not directly deploy troops. Canada's position on the war was contingent on UNSC approval, which Bush was not able to get.
Probably because no country wanted to risk their own economic well being to defend Saddam Hussein's government. Not to say the invasion was justified, but he was a brutal, genocidal dictator. That's not generally the kind of ruler able to gain strong, international support.
Iraq had no allies that cared enough about them, so it's natural. There are no embargoes against China, no matter how many Uyghurs get turned into voluntary organ donors.
Both countries have heavy US military presence due to previous wars, and neither have full military sovereignty due to the joint command structure established with the US. They can't afford to say no.
Iran is apparently getting better relations with Iraq, something which would have been considered unthinkable before Sadam. If you mean the Marshall plan and the chaos "they" (Western Invaders) caused, well, are you really surprised?
The USA is not a member of the International Criminal Court. And the only other place they could be charged with war crimes is the UN Security Council, where they have a guaranteed veto...
There were movements and voices oposed it. There was some information that we will not be as much involved, some have said that we need to prove ourself to USA as an ally as it was shortly after we have joined NATO and we are not in a possition to opose USA and we simply have no choice, but lots of others were loud against it.
It felt like the majority of Danes shared the opposition of an invasion like Sweden and Norway, but the government felt they had to follow the US to be BFF.
My dad is French and was working in Wall Street at the time of the invasion. The day after France started to oppose the U.S. invasion of Iraq, he walked into the office and was met with insults and neglect from his co-workers
For me this the foundation of what is happening today. W Bush has killed the united Nation power by lying to it. Requesting it to approve the war which did not happen and then went there with no reasons. Starting a period where anyone with enough power can start war any place anytime. Puttin, China,... I remember talks @ united nations with Powell showing false proofs (he recognizes it as the worst period of his carrier today). I miss Roosevelt' s USA. I am not from US but from Europ
I think you are giving Bush too much credit. The UN was already quite toothless in 2003. Hundreds of conflicts had happened since its founding without the participants caring or asking what the UN thought. It's true that the Bush administration misled Congress and the UN, but this war is not decisive in terms of wars happening without UN approval.
Because no one wants to impose sanctions and cause harm to their own economy over Saddem, and after he was dead and gone well the War's already done, why bother with sanctions now?
This is wrong. Canada has been in Iraq for over a decade. We still have troops there, and the mission is highlighted on the Government of Canada website.
They didn't participate in the invasion per se though, they joined "a number of non-belligerent nations in helping to rebuild the country post-invasion".
America invaded Iraq against international law. They had no approval from the security council and invaded with false pretences causing the deaths of over 800,000 Iraqis.
If you believe the invasion of Iraq was right, you have no reason to oppose the invasion of Ukraine. Both are unprovoked and brutal invasions of a country using lies as a pretext.
Well it kind of is a justification in a weird way, like, nobody cares about Ukraine because it is an unjust war, nobody cares about the civilians being killed, or the war crimes, we participated an plenty of those things without any moral objections. People only care because it is Russia that's doing it, it's our natural enemy, that's why most of the world participated in the sanctions. The US set a clear example that it is OK to invade, kill and destroy anything you want as long as you are strong enough to do it, if we had made an example out of the US maybe Russia wouldn't be so confident going in
The US' attitude in the 2000s was the reason so many countries tried to aggressively expand their sphere of influence as well as trying and sometimes succeeding in getting nukes
I remember all of us who were so opposed at the time knew this would be exactly the result. Being a bad actor nation gives other bad actors a pass for being a bad actor.
"Stone age thinking" = breaking a country's sovereignity and invading it, which is what the US and other blue countries did (regardless of whether or not Saddam did it also).
WTF Israel? We bank role your invasion of all your neighbors, taking land from them, cover your horrendously racist policies domestically, then you do us like this... That's cold
Lol Ukraine abstained and even sent some troops there after the invasion, and they want full support from the world now that they are invaded and shame anyone who becomes neutral on them,
Now, the United States of America condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine (also very wrong) while it has recently invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. God, the hypocrisy.
This might be more accurately named "Official" state positions. There was behind-the-scenes participation that didn't get much press from some states, like Canada. ...
A lot of the typical "puppets" were in supposed opposition. Granted, they didn't do anything against it, and some supported in a more non-direct extent.
Look, can’t we all agree on one thing here. Saddams Presidential palace in the green zone had a bomb ass swimming pool with a sweet fountain in it. Playing large games of water basketball was awesome. Oh, and the ice cream sundae bar in the DFAC was always a good time.
Not sure if this is a tinfoil hat moment but its interesting how the reddit account that posted this was inactive for 2 months and then right before the Ukraine invasion started solely posting map porn with political undertones. Thoughts?
Portugal position on the Iraq War was so uncertain they offered aid and support to USA by providing and letting them use Lajes airbase in the Azores, in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. Even let USA held a summit there with Spain and UK to discuss the situation in Iraq days before the invasion
Our prime minister Durão Barroso supported the war, while the president Jorge Sampaio didn't.
Poland can into Iraq
There was even Polish occupation zone in Iraq
Also Ukraine sent troops to Iraq so take this data with a grain of salt
This guy did not forget about poland
Poland got too tired of being the invaded and wanted to be the invader.
23 died fighting in Iraq from Poland.
Wow this is the first time I see Greenland has a data
Afaik, the foreign policy of Greenland is officialy the foreign policy of Denmark, thus since the data exists for Denmark, it exists for Greenland.
It's the data from Denmark.
they sent 1000 elite snow men... they all melted on the first day
Greenland finally pulling their weight around here
"Finally, I can get these damn Dutchy neighbors on something!"
Big talk for someone from south Netherlands
As always, Belgium >>> Neatherlands
Spain participated in Invasion
And it did cost us dearly.
People was overwhelmingly against it. A Government’s decision
That's what I thought I remembered, was wondering why they aren't red on the map.
So did Canada, whatever their official stance was.
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Some people might be too young to remember this bit shit was wild and important to remember. America, as much as it tried to pretty it up with protecting the US and seizing WMD, unashamedly was out for blood,
And since then the majority of Americans hate France and keep repeating the same agenda of the Brits with “white flag”, “freedom fries” and “surrender monkey” memes. Still today.
I like how the mapmaker highlighted Iraq as 'States being invaded' lmao
It’s curious how Iraq was the only country invaded during the invasion of Iraq. Really makes you think.
OP did nothing, he copied it off wikipedia.
Not all readers are versed in geography. Nice touch
But were they in support or in opposition? I guess we will never know.
But now we don't know if they supported the invasion or not
Didnt spanish troops get action in iraq?
Yes, Spain participated directly. It was a very unpopular move and I remember being demonstrations against it for months.
I saw George W Bush denounced the Iraq invasion this week. It was by accident but he got there in the end.
his government killed half a million people, you shouldn't get to walk away from that with a "whoops, sorry everyone!".
He also absolutely disrespectfully corrected himself.
I wouldn't call it that as much as he joked about how illegitimate the invasion was. Really gives you an idea about the value these warmongers put on life.
Classic Greenland always starting shit
I’d love to see this map side by side with those who financially supported the war after the invasion
You mean those who gained something financially after the invasion
If you zoom in, Luxembourg is also in support of the invasion.
Yes i remember USA shaming France for not supporting them, then almost every Americans agreed that it was a super dumb move with very suspicious underlying ambitions. At least all this is how it have been shown in french medias.
Freedom fries
To this day, the surrender jokes created in 2003 to shame France are still extremely common.
Every small business I can think of in my area started calling French Fries "freedom fries", same thing with French Toast etc. Americans bought into that one hook line and sinker.
Welp tbf, you guys also dragged NATO into that, libyan war and shit. So i guess France doesn't exactly holds the moral ground here.
Denmark, what are you doing?!
Anders Fogh Rasmussen (our former prime minister) got his NATO job from this. There is this saying in the EU, that Denmark is the the diplomatic gateway to the US. And that's true - we bend over ro the US when we have to.
Hey 20 bucks foreign alignment is 20 bucks foreign alignment.
Sadam was an awful individual who did terrible things in the 80s but the aggressor here is the US. Also I'm really surprised denmark was in support of this invasion
at that point in time Denmark and England where like dogs to USA..
I mean, if we're going by horrible leaders in invadable countries there were a lot worse places than Iraq.
The fact the US is attacking someone bad should never give you the impression that they’re attacking them because they’re bad
The US had a tremendous amount of goodwill from the past decade and 9/11 that Bush pissed away in an instant.
Ukraine supported the Iraq war and sent contingents there as well.
They also sold weapons to Myanmar's military rule committing genocide in 2021.
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As an American teenager when this was going on I never realized how much opposition there was, I thought it was more France being difficult and Middle Eastern allies, not half of Europe and the vast majority of the global population
Remember freedom fries?
The invasion itself and the reactions from Americans to countries who refused to support (renaming french fries to “freedom fries”) set the tone of a lot of anti Americanism in Europe that’s definitely lingered
As a Swedish teenager at the time, I was out demonstrating against the invasion every other week. We even held a school strike against it. I remember finding a shirt with the American flag in my wardrobe (I think it was a Gant shirt) and thinking “How could I ever wear this?”. I threw it away.
That's what happens when you live in a propaganda state that hides behind the slogan of "free speech"
Didn't the Ukrainians send several thousand troops?
Not in the invasion, but afterwards. Start was 01.09.2003
For the occupation
As a Brazilian, this makes me long for the days our foreign policy made sense
Seems misleading. Was under the impression 27 countries deployed troops to Iraq. Actually just found that out refuting some bullshit in conspiracy a day or two ago.
Few points
As much as it pains me to admit it, this is a map of USA’s bitches.
Yup. We are under the US whip, as we have been since the 40's.
They always become emotional when you point it out lol. Sure Netherlands you sure have autonomy and aren't the usas bitch. That's why our politics is closely following their and we support almost everything they do without question.
"Don't forget about Poland!"
I've always remembered Poland thanks to
Chad France
Blue countries were right.
For sure. I was 12 at the time so not exactly an informed member of society, but I do remember these events very clearly. I remember freedom fries and all that shit lol. I was reading recently in
Years later French/US relationship is still deeply marked by this choice. The public opinion of both nations has greatly diminished toward each other and never really recovered.
I was there. I was in the US Army from 1988-2011. I hated why we went there and what we did. All for bogus stories of weapons of mass destructions. How many innocent civilians died because of that?
I’m disappointed as anyone that we were lied to about the yellow cake uranium. Bush is a war criminal…and I voted for him in 2000.
Hindsight is 20/20, and when Colin Powell declared Husain was pursuing uranium, lots of people bought it.
Thinking back on how the entire mainstream media apparatus was pounding the drums of war even when it was very clear there was little to no actual evidentiary pretext to invade still infuriates me.
Why did Uzbekistan support the invasion?
money most likely
Damn, I was young at the time but as a French I remember the US giving us SO MUCH shit for opposing the invasion (freedom fries and all...) it felt we were the only ones opposing the war.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Canada send troops to iraq?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_the_Iraq_War
Umm no. Jean Chretien the PM at the time said about WMD, "A proof is a proof, and when it's proven, it's proof." At the time we thought this was hilarious but turns out he was right.
As far as I know, there were some Canadian exchange officers who did participate in the fighting, even though Canada did not directly deploy troops. Canada's position on the war was contingent on UNSC approval, which Bush was not able to get.
Maybe you’re thinking of Afghanistan?
1991 Gulf war = yes. 2003 Invasion = No
as a Dane, it's embarrassing how far up the US' ass our government's been
nations in opposition:
And still no punishment or embargo was carried out...
When you are the super power you can do what you want with little to no reprecussion. That is why almost every country who can will try to be one.
Probably because no country wanted to risk their own economic well being to defend Saddam Hussein's government. Not to say the invasion was justified, but he was a brutal, genocidal dictator. That's not generally the kind of ruler able to gain strong, international support.
Iraq had no allies that cared enough about them, so it's natural. There are no embargoes against China, no matter how many Uyghurs get turned into voluntary organ donors.
No, more a "pls don't do this", and afterwards, they didn't really care. The opposition was more a virtue signal.
Cause we're all afraid of the United States of A**holes
An embargo on the sole superpower (at the time) would be economical suicide for the entire world
make one for yugoslavia.
Map would be more colorful than lgbt parade
Why isn’t Bush in prison?
Hague invasion act.
I just started to think Japan and South Korea is just US yes-men
Always has been
Japan is one of the most powerful countries in the world, third largest economy and has one of the largest navies in the world.
these are US's Bitches
Both countries have heavy US military presence due to previous wars, and neither have full military sovereignty due to the joint command structure established with the US. They can't afford to say no.
1939-1945
Did Canada oppose the war? I know most Canadians did but I thought our government was non-commental at the time.
Colombia siempre de lame culo del estado gringo
Cannot believe no country is trying to actually help Iraq after the chaos they caused.
Iran is apparently getting better relations with Iraq, something which would have been considered unthinkable before Sadam. If you mean the Marshall plan and the chaos "they" (Western Invaders) caused, well, are you really surprised?
Where is the trials for war criminals?
The USA is not a member of the International Criminal Court. And the only other place they could be charged with war crimes is the UN Security Council, where they have a guaranteed veto...
US actively opposes the ICC and has had a history of threatening its members if they ever tried to prosecute americans
"Are we the baddies?"
I am Polish.
Hard to deny, we did it for the US
There were movements and voices oposed it. There was some information that we will not be as much involved, some have said that we need to prove ourself to USA as an ally as it was shortly after we have joined NATO and we are not in a possition to opose USA and we simply have no choice, but lots of others were loud against it.
There are LOTS of countries that should be orange. Don't let pathetic semantics propaganda fool you.
This exactly. I like how everyone is trying to whitewash their history when they gladly sent their armies to destroy Iraq.
Which one?
I am, as a Dane, ashamed that we are orange on this map.
Not surprising considering Anders Fogh had his tongue stuck in Bush's asshole
It felt like the majority of Danes shared the opposition of an invasion like Sweden and Norway, but the government felt they had to follow the US to be BFF.
Bevis på att Sverige är bättre än D*nmark🤢🤢
America and its puppets justifying genocide
Where were the sanctions? Oh wait it's the "good guys" that invaded. Just like Avengers.
My dad is French and was working in Wall Street at the time of the invasion. The day after France started to oppose the U.S. invasion of Iraq, he walked into the office and was met with insults and neglect from his co-workers
I wonder why Denmark participated in the invasion.
Greenland was involved in that shit!?!?!?
Greenland isn't independent.
Greenland?
Greenland: We used to lake Denmark look so big
A warmongering superpower with nukes invading a country with natural resources under the pretence of being heroes?
collation of the willing lol
Always these 3 in Asia: Japan, South Korea, and The Philippines lol
And this is why when Putin travels to The Hague for his trial George W. Bush should be there already waiting.
America's recent history in the Middle East is big reason why American can't really take a moral high ground most of the time.
For me this the foundation of what is happening today. W Bush has killed the united Nation power by lying to it. Requesting it to approve the war which did not happen and then went there with no reasons. Starting a period where anyone with enough power can start war any place anytime. Puttin, China,... I remember talks @ united nations with Powell showing false proofs (he recognizes it as the worst period of his carrier today). I miss Roosevelt' s USA. I am not from US but from Europ
I think you are giving Bush too much credit. The UN was already quite toothless in 2003. Hundreds of conflicts had happened since its founding without the participants caring or asking what the UN thought. It's true that the Bush administration misled Congress and the UN, but this war is not decisive in terms of wars happening without UN approval.
Shame on Japan. Such a US puppet state. That honor and pride are nothing but a myth. Two nuclear bombs and they lick US balls.
they're so much dependent on US for defence and economy
Question : how many sanctions against the US for brutally invading Iraq and killing civilians ?
Because no one wants to impose sanctions and cause harm to their own economy over Saddem, and after he was dead and gone well the War's already done, why bother with sanctions now?
Because nobody is going to sacrifice their own economy for an oppressive dictator's regime
Not saying it’s incorrect, but it would be nice to know the source.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governmental_positions_on_the_Iraq_War_prior_to_the_2003_invasion_of_Iraq
Agreed, the title in the image would be good too
This is wrong. Canada has been in Iraq for over a decade. We still have troops there, and the mission is highlighted on the Government of Canada website.
This is about a war that happened nearly 20 years ago. Canada was publicly against that invasion by the US.
They didn't participate in the invasion per se though, they joined "a number of non-belligerent nations in helping to rebuild the country post-invasion".
At the time of invasion, Canada was opposed. Later on after a change of government in 06, we sent support for the continued occupation.
Careful when you invade without a clear international mandate.
America invaded Iraq against international law. They had no approval from the security council and invaded with false pretences causing the deaths of over 800,000 Iraqis.
If you believe the invasion of Iraq was right, you have no reason to oppose the invasion of Ukraine. Both are unprovoked and brutal invasions of a country using lies as a pretext.
Well it kind of is a justification in a weird way, like, nobody cares about Ukraine because it is an unjust war, nobody cares about the civilians being killed, or the war crimes, we participated an plenty of those things without any moral objections. People only care because it is Russia that's doing it, it's our natural enemy, that's why most of the world participated in the sanctions. The US set a clear example that it is OK to invade, kill and destroy anything you want as long as you are strong enough to do it, if we had made an example out of the US maybe Russia wouldn't be so confident going in
The US' attitude in the 2000s was the reason so many countries tried to aggressively expand their sphere of influence as well as trying and sometimes succeeding in getting nukes
I remember all of us who were so opposed at the time knew this would be exactly the result. Being a bad actor nation gives other bad actors a pass for being a bad actor.
alwaysthesamemap
Poland?
They had only recently joined NATO and I guess they wanted to prove they were an asset to the alliance.
Yes?
Ahaha Ukraine, who's invaded now
Yikes. What a mistake. Stop invading foreign countries.
Not a mistake. A crime which America and it's allies need to answer and pay for
"Stone age thinking" = breaking a country's sovereignity and invading it, which is what the US and other blue countries did (regardless of whether or not Saddam did it also).
And yeah, what punishment did US get? I doubt it 💀
WTF Israel? We bank role your invasion of all your neighbors, taking land from them, cover your horrendously racist policies domestically, then you do us like this... That's cold
Lol Ukraine abstained and even sent some troops there after the invasion, and they want full support from the world now that they are invaded and shame anyone who becomes neutral on them,
I would wager around 90% of anti-India and China sentiment and whataboutism is plain old Western supremacy and racism
Now, the United States of America condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine (also very wrong) while it has recently invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. God, the hypocrisy.
Ukrainians are Europeans. If they were Africans or middle easterns no one would care
muh but we're the good guys don't you know
You're getting downvoted because Americans and Europeans hate dealing with the hypocrisy of their own governments.
This might be more accurately named "Official" state positions. There was behind-the-scenes participation that didn't get much press from some states, like Canada. ...
It is and was an illegal war
Legal war, lol.
U.S & Their puppets
A lot of the typical "puppets" were in supposed opposition. Granted, they didn't do anything against it, and some supported in a more non-direct extent.
TIL Ethiopia is an American puppet.
Smartest Redditor
North Korea hmmm
I thought Georgia participated for some reason.
But but I traded a patch with a Norwegian soldier.
Canada saw through the WMD narrative but did participate in afganistan with 150 war dead
As an American
Look, can’t we all agree on one thing here. Saddams Presidential palace in the green zone had a bomb ass swimming pool with a sweet fountain in it. Playing large games of water basketball was awesome. Oh, and the ice cream sundae bar in the DFAC was always a good time.
Mongolia supported then switched
Wait... Are we the bad guys?
Not sure if this is a tinfoil hat moment but its interesting how the reddit account that posted this was inactive for 2 months and then right before the Ukraine invasion started solely posting map porn with political undertones. Thoughts?
Yeah this is wrong. I guess anyone with paint can make a map.
Not related really but did you know the most charitable nations in earth are
Kuwait was like "payback is a bitch"
Afghanistan was invaded just two years prior and had a US propped government. Not really in a position to dissent the power controlling it.
Afghanistan supported the invasion of Iraq? Seriously? Need another colored box for “States already invaded and currently occupied by the US.”