Italy denied U.S. military aircraft headed for the Middle East permission to land at its Sigonella air base in Sicily.

Italy denied U.S. military aircraft headed for the Middle East permission to land at its Sigonella air base in Sicily, according to local reports.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    25·
    5 hours ago

    True story: When France refused to let us fly through their airspace during the Iraq War, the Congressional Cafeteria changed the name of French Fries to Freedom Fries.

    So I guess we’ll be seeing Freedom Dressing on the Congressional Cafeteria salad bar.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
        15·
        5 hours ago

        Americans like to pretend that France owes us for WW2, but if the French Navy hadn’t shown up at Yorktown, and blocked the British ships from evacuating their army (again), we’d all be speaking…English…well, you know what I mean.

        We 100% owe the founding of our company to France.