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Suppose Newfoundland remained apart from Canada after WWII. Say a combination of British pride of the Denmark holds on to Greenland variety, less of its youth dying in the Battle of the Somme, and most of all greater American investment in airbases in the lead up to the Cold War result in a different outcome for the referendum of 1949. If Iceland can survive as its own country, so does Newfoundland in this timeline.

Newfoundland in NATO
Newfie special forces

Beyond that, what would it be like? Would Newfoundland get involved in humanitarian peacekeeping missions around the world like Canada did, or in the Americas and the Caribbean? Maybe in the cod wars against Iceland? Polar expeditions? An enlarged version of the Five Eyes?
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