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Allies
Which countries are presently allies with each other?
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doesn't say, and I don't know if this is a dumb question or not. I mean, I guess if countries are import and export partners they must have some sort of a alliance?
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I don't think being ‘allies’ with a country isn’t as straight forward as computer games or world war text books would have you believe. To my knowledge no county has an official list of allies where they cross off Norway’s name if they make a dumb joke. Politics is just more complicated then that.
For example, Canada and the US trade over 2 billion dollars daily, but when the war in Iraq began Canada did not make the US list of ‘allies’ at first because it refused to send troops into Iraq, but that didn’t mean trade stopped. A whole bunch of other countries didn't offer unconditional support either, but trade with those countries didn't come to an end because no alliance had been breached.
Agreements like NAFTA govern the way that countries trade goods with each other, but they aren’t exactly alliances. Each country just creates agreements with other countries, or groups of countries that are beneficial to them. These agreements can be called accords or contracts or charters or whatever fits, but they don’t make two countries allies through thick and thin.
Although the word ally gets a lot of play now with the ‘War on Terror’ going on, my understanding is it’s more of a buzz word then an actual political term. I could be wrong admittedly. I tired to do some research for this question and didn’t find much to go on, but that is how I understand it.
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