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.today
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      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.