I mean, its different because France was straight up invaded and defeated. Might as well claim Belgium, Greece, and North Africa were siding with the Nazis.
I'd say the better comparisons to the USSR are Spain, Switzerland, Iraq, The Indian National Congress, and the US itself, all of which had substantive domestic interests in seeing the German war machine triumph in Europe (particularly against the British).
What gets me even more with these comics is the way Japan is almost completely scrubbed from the WW2 history books. You rarely if ever see Tojo or the Pacific Theater mentioned. Nobody seems to express interest in the collapse in relations between the US and Japan or the subsequent genocides conducted across the Oceanic island range or the Chinese mainland. Despite all the movies made about the Pacific Theater, the politics of the moment are completely lost among folks fixated on Stalin/Hitler dynamic.
They are not referencing Vichy France, they are saying if non-aggression pacts are "siding with" then France also sided with the Nazis as they had non-aggression pacts with the Nazis early on
I mean, its different because France was straight up invaded and defeated. Might as well claim Belgium, Greece, and North Africa were siding with the Nazis.
I'd say the better comparisons to the USSR are Spain, Switzerland, Iraq, The Indian National Congress, and the US itself, all of which had substantive domestic interests in seeing the German war machine triumph in Europe (particularly against the British).
What gets me even more with these comics is the way Japan is almost completely scrubbed from the WW2 history books. You rarely if ever see Tojo or the Pacific Theater mentioned. Nobody seems to express interest in the collapse in relations between the US and Japan or the subsequent genocides conducted across the Oceanic island range or the Chinese mainland. Despite all the movies made about the Pacific Theater, the politics of the moment are completely lost among folks fixated on Stalin/Hitler dynamic.
They are not referencing Vichy France, they are saying if non-aggression pacts are "siding with" then France also sided with the Nazis as they had non-aggression pacts with the Nazis early on