• RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip
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    Is everyone forgetting we have already fought one war on our northern border? Shit happens. What if Canada went nuts and elected some narcissistic tv host that wears a diaper as a leader and they formed a cult by accident and it’s members started shooting people across the border. You would want a contingency plan in place to handle that, ya know?

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      That was more than 200 years ago - 2/3 of the states didn’t exist yet - and it ended in a mostly pointless stalemate.

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        That was more than 200 years ago

        Your point being what?

        When your neighbors to the north call it “The Geneva Suggestions” tell me you’re not going to have constant contingency plans for the day they stop saying “sorry”. 😁

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        ended in a mostly pointless stalemate

        They fought it to beat France, they ended up beating France. I think it’s safe to say they won.

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        Is this the war of 1812 where Canada burned down your first White House? That pointless stalemate?

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          British troops did that, specifically British troops who had never set foot in British North America, let alone Canada, which didn’t exist. And yes, any war that ends in status que ante bellum is pointless.

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          They burned down the white house because they were forced to leave the city. People always act like it was some huge victory for them but they always leave out the fact that they couldn’t actually hold territory in the US, and the war ended with a major US victory at New Orleans.

          At the same time the US invasion of Canada failed and they couldn’t hold territory there either. Obviously. That’s called a stalemate.

          Just a dumb point to bring up since we can all see that DC doesn’t belong to the UK today. And Toronto doesn’t belong to the US. So yes it was a stalemate, without the sarcastic quotation marks.