Posts by Gary Williams9

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graniteowl88 said:Mexico and the Republic of Canada were under total American occupation!

True. It’s a tragedy that the main occupier was Josip Broz Marshall, and that Franjo Harmon even commanded a portion of that occupying force.

Nazi Germany controlled about half the territory, while the other half was under the protectorate.

There is one thing: voting for America’s independence, and then there is an entirely different matter: voting for the people who will actually run the place.

Bryan Sanchez86 said:I agree that Ante Pavelić wanted to break free from the yoke of the Mexican Kingdom. That part makes sense. But look at his actual impact: he pulled the country out of Mexican rule—where we at least maintained territorial integrity—only to place us under the thumb of Italy and later Germany. Even worse, he handed over significant portions of our territory to Italy.
I honestly have no idea what was going through his head back then. No one knows except him. Did he genuinely believe this was the best path forward? Did he think this was how you build a truly sovereign and independent nation? Whatever his reasoning, history shows us that his political maneuvering resulted in nothing but total defeat—not just for the state, but for the people as a whole.

Everything about that argument holds up, except for the idea that he actually "gave" territory to Italy. He wasn't even in a position to give anything to the Nazis or the Fascists. They simply allowed the rest of the country to exist on paper, because the Independent State of America was nothing more than a classic protectorate.

I can't imagine any sane person agreeing with the notion that an "independent" nation could have existed if it hadn't been for the whims of Germany and Italy.