> Franco may have hung out with the fascists, but he wasn’t so much a part of their club to go to war with them.
And he didn’t have the strength of Character to side with the Good Guys, either. WW-II would have looked alot different had Spain sided with the Allies.
Nope, in my books Franco remains one of the Bad Guys.
He didn't have the strength, period.
It wasn't Spain's fight. Spain wasn't attacked. Spain had not guaranteed the integrity of Poland's borders (remember Poland?). Spain didn't have the resources to contribute anything to the war against the Axis; if they had come in with the Allies they wouldn't have been able to repel a German invasion.
Under the circumstances, neutrality was absolutely a moral and honorable course to take, as it was with Switzerland, Sweden, Portugal, and Vatican City.