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I am sure some US hardliners see the map and wonder how is this country still independent.
These positions are not defensible from military perspective.
C'mon, it even looks like a rifle
Who would be insane enough to invade a country, that already looks like a weapon?Careful how you phrase that, I heard a militia of collectors is forming to capture the biggest depiction of a gun in the world
Trump did call Trudeau governor of the great state of Canada yesterday and suggested it should become the 51st state a ~week ago
dude is too stupid to understand why he should not do it.
until i hear some GOP chaney and kissegeer types, i aint worried.
Yeah, I'm not worried about imminent invasion either. A trade war will already basically cause chaos, though, and it could escalate from there. Hopefully the government is up to the task.
You want to know why Canada still exists despite having a fraction of the manpower or military of the United States?
It's because the United States likes Canada. We think they're fun to have around.
Do you guys actually think about us that much?
That's an abstract question to try to answer; it's not like we sit around and ponder about y'all for hours on end but someone says "This is my friend Bill from Canada" and you just think "Oh cool."
On a societal level, we share the world's longest international border, we're massive trade partners, like, most of the Northwestern hemisphere's best comedians come from Canada...we like Canada, we think they're fun to have around.
Yeah, that's my impression too. It's more like you never sat down and thought about annexing us to start with; at least this side of WWII. We're pleasantly familiar feeling and stay out of the way, so there's no reason to.
Hopefully you know that "your country only exists at my pleasure" is not a compliment. I read this as a deliberate jab at first, but now I'm not so sure.
We’re pleasantly familiar feeling and stay out of the way, so there’s no reason to.
I think I'd go farther and say you're pretty good friends; we have plenty of projects going together, we've got a giant waterfall we do a pretty good job sharing, etc.
Hopefully you know that “your country only exists at my pleasure” is not a compliment.
Wasn't really designed to be; it's more meant to chastise other imperial superpowers throughout history. If you went back through history and took the dominant superpower of any given era and plunked their leadership down in 1950's Washington DC, how many of them form close economic ties and a mutual defense pact, and how many of them march on Ottawa?
If I read our treaties correctly, the official attitude of the United States is more like "Canada shall cease to exist over our dead bodies."
It's a bit of an unfair comparison. WWII had just ended and the world was adjusting to the invention of nuclear weapons. The British stopped invading places too, and that was their whole thing. Also, don't forget, before WWII you did try to annex us.
To date you've chosen to sphere us instead, but it's not because you're all just nice guys.
and that was their whole thing
Yeah that's kinda the point I was making.
The War of 1812 disagrees.
Touche but US capabilities are now that of a global empire, all of Canada is within few hundred mile from US border and its core literally cuts into the US while power disparity is wider than Ukraine/Russia.
Nobody who knows much seriously thinks we'd win a conventional war. We could slap together nukes pretty quickly, but we'd probably rather just get annexed. Our defences are all diplomatic.
That took place entirely in the Great Lakes area. The other bit was still very, very Native.
Also, we like to take credit for that, but that was basically the British Empire fighting for one of it's colonies, and IIRC most of the British soldiers involved were not from here.
No, we're going back to the North Atlantic triangle days if the US goes funny like it appears to be going.