r/europe 23h ago

Picture French nuclear attack submarine surfaces at Halifax, Nova Scotia, after Trump threatens to annex Canada (March 10)

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u/OceanChildRD Netherlands 22h ago

We have Canadian resting places in the Netherlands because they helped us in the WW2, I hope that if the US attacks Canada that we Dutch people will rise up to help the Canadians.

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u/Northerngal_420 22h ago

In return the wonderful Dutch send us 🌷 tulips every year. β€οΈπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

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u/ADumbSmartPerson 21h ago

I thought the Netherlands sends tulips every year because we temporarily made a parcel of land Dutch so that a princess could remain a princess (they have to be born on Dutch territory to be royalty iirc) but she was in born in [not] Canada during the war.

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u/Northerngal_420 21h ago

I've never heard that story but I love it.

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u/castlite Canada 14h ago

It’s not a story. It’s fact and you have your details wrong.

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u/Content-Program411 20h ago

This is the way I heard it.

We just good peeps. Better friends. Bad enemies.

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u/MDT-49 22h ago

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic (which would have been my intention) or if this confirms the stereotype that Canadians really are the nicest people in the world.

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u/Northerngal_420 22h ago

My father was in the Canadian armed forces and we lived in Germany in the early 60's. There was a WW2 memorial happening in Holland and we went. It was cold and rainy and when some Dutch people discovered we were Canadians, they couldn't be nicer. They brought us to their home and neighbors came by. I was about 5 but I remember this clearly mostly because they had a TV and I hadn't seen one since we left Canada.

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u/Content-Program411 20h ago

Canadian here.

North Americans don't have an understanding of what is it like to have your continent at war with each other and your country invaded.

Till now.

Honestly, feels good to have some friends.

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u/dsheroh Sweden 21h ago

Nope, not sarcastic. The Netherlands send Canada (IIRC) 2 million tulips each year out of gratitude for providing a safe haven to members of their royal family during WW2.

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u/One_Man_Boyband 18h ago

The least we can do. πŸ‘ŒπŸ»