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France waited quite a while after Germany invaded Poland. In fact they waited until France was overrun."
What was Italy doing back then? ...not that the WWII stuff is very relevant to our diplomacy with western Europe today. Political situations have changed in western Europe even more recently.
IRAN: ITALY MUST RELY ON TEHRAN TO BOOST ROLE IN MIDDLE EAST, DIPLOMAT ["Main trading partner."]
AKI (Italy) ^ | 10AUG06 | AKI (Italy)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690564/posts Excerpt:
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Italy is Iran's main trading partner in Europe and commercial relations between the two countries were reportedly worth five billion euros in 2005."
IRAN: D'ALEMA, SANCTIONS WOULD ESPECIALLY DAMAGE ITALY
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia, Italy ^ | 26MAY06 | Agenzia Giornalistica Italia, Italy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1639485/posts
Italy's out, and France has soldiers in Afghanistan, BTW. It would be nice, if we could get all of western Europe to help.