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* Both China and America have been sending their [[Sarcasm Mode|magnificent naval fleets]] to the South China Sea. The PRC, to defend the undersea resources they claim to be rightfully theirs;<ref>this isdespite being WAY out of what it should be in international law, which put a country's "EEZ" to 200 miles out from their coastline. The South China Sea dosn't actually align with China's Coastline, and much is beyond what would be their EEZ even if it was.</ref> America, to curb China's claim by protecting the interests of their South-East Asian allies, who under international law have a legal claim to it.
* Several Middle Eastern countries were suspected by the British secret service of being more cozy then they should with Germany during World War II. The result tended to be a large number of British soldiers showing up on their doorstep in a manner that Disraeli would approve no end.
**Alan Moorehead happened to be in Iran in the aftermath of a joint Allied-Russian coup in Iran to chase away a local German enclave and by the way, get a hold of a trucking rout to Russia via the Persian Gulf. This was one of the few actual joint ops between the Western Allies and the Soviets on more then the tiniest scale(though separate offensives sometimes took place at the same time at distances apart and were likely coordinated to do so).
**Vichy got a lot of this from ''both'' sides
**Germany several times did this to recalcitrant clients who wanted to defect or weren't all that enthusiastic about the whole thing in the first place. Usually this ended in a German occupation. One notable exception was Finland which turned out to be as good at killing Germans as Russians.
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