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Originally Posted by Rupert
That's in large part because of the force imbalance there, though. I mean, about the only thing that could've gone worse would've been if the landings had been on the wrong island.
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Not entirely. If the U.S. hadn't been as swift in exiting as it was, or if things had gone a bit swifter in other quarters, it could have gone very wrong. Both the UK parliament and the Canadian parliament had motions on the order paper to consider a military response to the invasion of Grenada. That's a military response on Grenada's side. It wouldn't surprise me if there weren't similar motions scheduled in the other Commonwealth Realm parliaments. And if that happened, a Commonwealth-wide response might be forthcoming later. As it happened, the U.S. left before the motions came before parliament, but things could have gone much worse than just landing on the wrong island.