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* Britain and France in the [[Spanish Civil War]] (see the page quote). Eager to appease [[Nazi Germany]] and prevent (or rather, forestall) [[World War II]], they took this trope [[Up to Eleven]] by enforcing an ''arms embargo'' against the Republicans, on whose side they were supposed to be. |
* Britain and France in the [[Spanish Civil War]] (see the page quote). Eager to appease [[Nazi Germany]] and prevent (or rather, forestall) [[World War II]], they took this trope [[Up to Eleven]] by enforcing an ''arms embargo'' against the Republicans, on whose side they were supposed to be. |
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* Poland was on the wrong end of an indirect cavalry refusal where Allied air raids were prevented by Russia's refusal to let the planes refuel in their territory. |
* Poland was on the wrong end of an indirect cavalry refusal where Allied air raids were prevented by Russia's refusal to let the planes refuel in their territory. |
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* As depicted in both the book and the [[Michael Bay]] movie ''13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi'', the September 2012 terrorist assault on the U.S. diplomatic annex in Benghazi could have been stopped hours earlier had the U.S. government authorized airstrikes or even just flybys from fighter jets over the city. Instead the American personnel on the ground had to fend for themselves, and four people were killed, one of them J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. Ambassador to Libya. |
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