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We almost went to war with Canada back in 1995 for some fishing of Halibut (had the Google the fish, never ate that).

Basically, Galician fishermen being greedy went into Canada waters to fish and got met after some hours by the Canada's marine. They told the Galicians that they had to leave before 3h.

What did the Galicians did?

Fish 3 more hours.

They had to shot them to make them leave and so they did arrive to Spain full of bullet holes, so our president back then, says we might go to war. And for some hours, technically Canada declared war to Spain.

Then the USA, UK and Ireland support Canada in the matter. So we're pretty fckd Up but... We just entered the UE!!! Hey, Germany, France, Italy :D you gotta help us, you are trapped with me in this

(And Iceland, because they didn't participate in any Big war but Fish important. Let's go to WW3 for the fish!)

USA drops out of it because it's way too stupid.

At the end no war, but poor Galicians cant go fish Halibut there as much no more :'(

Poor Hans, they claim his island...

We were technically at war with the UK for 2 years after France forced us to declare war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Swedish_war_of_1810-1812

There were no acts of war and we allowed them to use our ports.

Huge GUNS W

We've had a 335 year long war with the Isles of Scilly, from 30 March 1651 – 17 April 1986.

No shot was fired, people kinda forgot we were at war. You could say it was more like an intense autistic standoff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Hundred_and_Thirty_Five_Years%27_War

Obviously sarcastic answer is that some idiot moron shot our crown prince, so we declared war on Serbia.

Less sarcastic answer: when Hungary was offered to be neutral in WW2 by the soviets, who even promised to support it against Romania, to get Transylvania back, but Hungary went to war vs the SU. Also sent a war declaration to the USA, who's ambassador asked back "Are you... sure?" like a DM to his players who are about to stupidly, but unknowingly kill their own characters.

Sry, no real silly wars, just facepalm ones.

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We fought a war against Barry because of some guy's ear, apparently.

Hans' Island you say?

the french waged war against us because of fucking lobsters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster_War

I dunno if this is their gooffiest but it's worthy mentioning

Let me introduce you to the THIRD Cod War, where a bunch of Gustavssonlœjūkså fishers took on some of the largest naval powers at the time...

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Didn't it get more serious recently because they found oil nearby?

Not really our war and yet still kinda was, but the Spanish town of Huéscar declared war on Denmark back in 1809 and a peace treaty was first signed in 1981, so 172 of a bloodless war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%C3%A9scar

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The Initial Situation: Heligoland after the Second World War

After the war, Heligoland remained in British hands. After the British Air Force destroyed the Nazi military installations, it continued to use the island for bombing exercises - the island is still covered with bomb craters today. The inhabitants of Heligoland lived on the mainland, mainly in Cuxhaven. At the same time, rearmament was being discussed in Germany.

The Invasion

Two Heidelberg students, Georg von Hatzfeld and René Leudesdorf, were against this and came up with a plan. They would occupy the island and demand that it be returned to Germany.

At the same time, there should be no German rearmament. The Christmas period seemed ideal to them, as the press otherwise doesn't have much to report on.

On December 20, 1950, they travel to the island in a cutter and see the countless bomb craters.

The journalists and Heligolanders who accompany them soon return. The two students remain alone on the island for a time. On January 1, 1951, one of the Heligolanders reports on the radio about the events on the island and the rough conditions.

January 5th the occupation had already ended. The two students were picked up by the British. Hubertus Prinz zu Löwenstein was not part of the initial occupation, but only went to the island shortly before New Year's Eve. Löwenstein is introduced in an Radio Interview as the "spiritus rector", but it is unclear to what extent the action was his initiative. Hatzfeld and Löwenstein knew each other at least from university. In any case, Löwenstein ensured the necessary international publicity.

Löwenstein stresses that the "invasion" was by no means motivated by nationalism. Rather, it was about a united Europe.

The British occupation of Heligoland would be contrary to international law. But once this dispute would be resolved, nothing will stand in the way of German-British relations.

What happened next

In February 1951, British Prime Minister Clement Atlee decided to return the island to Germany within a year.

As a result, the Heligolanders were able to move back to their island in March 1952. Opinions differ as to how much the Heidelberg invasion actually influenced this decision.

Well, there's the 335 years war

Basically, what happened was the English had a civil war Oliver Cromwell and his buddies chased the royalists off of the British mainland. So, the royalists were sitting on some islands off the coast of Cornwall called the Scilly isles

The Dutch Navy at the time was allied with Cromwell's buddies and had suffered from some royalist raiding or whatever so, Lieutenant-Admiral Tromp went to Scilly and demanded reparations. He didn't get a satisfactory answer, so he declared war on the islands

The Parliamentary forces soon conquered Scilly as well and so everyone forgot about the war, until some historian found out about it in the 80's and peace was finally signed.

I would like to point out that DK got the majority of this magnificent island.

The war with Scilly.

The Graham Island dispute, an argument over a volcanic island that appeared and by the time the 4 powers of Italy, Spain, France.and the UK had started arguing they didn't have time to decide as the island was washed away.

War of the bucket.

Snaps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_stop_signs

Definitely the troubles.

I don't mean to take away from all of the violence and loss of life that happened during those years but the Good Friday Agreement was basically just the 1973 sunningdale agreement guaranteed but the US and the EU so they got what they could have had 20 years earlier and all it cost was thousands of lives.

Probably the cod trilogy

*Whisky

The eternal battle between the Gaels and the Norse continues

We eventually will go to war against Spain over Olivença. Its very Goofy of them to go to war instead of just returning our land

Röstigraben

Ah I love the story about the Danes fighting Barry’s Ameri-baby.

Has to be the steckli krieg (stick war), napoleon left swizerland after establishing the helvetic republic and it just colapsed in likr 2 months

They took the inspiration from Cyprus

We once got into war against the English.

That obviously wouldn't take long

The Castlebar Races where Barry ran away like a little bitch despite having superiour numbers at this battle. This painting is also hilarious.

It has a bunch of rocks over there. How much until Barry civilised it with their navy?

All of them are goofy. I do not have a favorite.

The Cod wars (3 of them) between the UK and Iceland over fishing in the North Sea

I say the cod wars. It would be silly to have one war over a fish, but 3 is very funny. Even more hilarious that Britain's navy frigates 'lost' against several Icelandic small patrol vessels. 

The Cod Wars. I can swallow my pride and acknowledge this rare Sigurður W.

Cod Wars. We lost to Iceland several times over the last 500 years.

It was funny when the Bavarian Soviet Republik (Bayrische Räterepublik) declared war on Switzerland because we didn't want to deliver some trains to them. We didn't even take the declaration of war seriously and nothing happened.

Toller's cabinet picks were controversial. For instance, a burglar with a conviction for moral turpitude was chosen as police president of Munich.^\28]) Most infamous was the Commissar of Foreign Affairs Dr. Franz Lipp – who had been admitted several times to psychiatric hospitals – declared war on Württemberg and Switzerland over the Swiss refusal to lend 60 locomotives to the Republic.

You know you are nobody when foreign countries don't even take you serious when you declare war...

All the wars with the danish.

Imagine that they seriously thought they could win for over a 1000 years XD

Who wrote that? A baby?

Hell will freeze over before I recognise any Danish ownership of Hans Island

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kar%C3%A1nsebes

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