No Hawk, Germany invaded France. The US invaded Iraq.
GST.. no matter how hard you try, you cannot rewrite history.
Yes.. Germany invaded France in 1940. But France signed an armistice with Hitler (in the same train car that the 1918 armistice was signed) which ceded control over 3/5ths of the country to Germany, while retaining French control over the remainder and it's overseas territories.
That's called being a neutral nation... So neutral that the British attacked the French fleet in Toulon, inflicting over 1,000 casualties, in order to prevent it falling into German hands. This is something the French did not forget, or forgive, for some years.
Regardless of whether you choose to accept the reality, Vichy France was a soveriegn, and neutral, nation. It was not an ally of Germany, nor was it a belligerent against the Allies.
So when the US/UK invaded Vichy territory, they invaded a neutral country.
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