Why invade when youtube videos are so cheap?
If the US said -
What is it you think ordinary Canadians ought to be fighting (risk dying) for, that is superior to ending all the particularly Canadian political and legal squabbles about the structure of the country and how money is transferred and which groups are favoured and what rights people have and how much they are subject to capricious limits? There are lists of good things and bad things about Canada, and lists of good things and bad things about America. An honest appraisal of all four lists is required if you really want a sense of whether your hope is truly forlorn.
An interesting quandary for people giving consideration to that potential breach of allied sovereignty. We’ll see if “the F-35 doesn’t have and ‘God Code’ in it” holds up…
our right to make those decisions for ourselves.
Abstract fluff. You'll have to do better than hand-waving at cloud-shaped diagrams.
then move to america, if you think an american takeover (especially under the current administration) would grant Canadians american voting rights then i have several bridges to sell you.
it not perfect system, but it is our system. I'm proud to be Canadian, even with the many flaws, if you're not then maybe you should help fix the country instead of wanting big orange daddy to come in and take care of you.
That would entail losing economic sovereignty over our monetary policy. I doubt that would be entertained by anyone.
In what way? Rates?
That can be already be achieved. No one seems to be too upset about consumption taxes. What replaces it?
So there is a chance it goes away? Non starter.
Why? Give the rest of the list that seems useless.
The US would never allow that.
Possible.
How when you’ve removed GST and tied us to the USD.
No one here would go for that. Maybe if they agreed to convert. That would be more enticing.
Are we not mostly there?
Sure.
You underestimate the reaction to that sort of thing.
Alberta would. That’s it.
Denmark would have to somehow get their F35's to Greenland and if they managed to do that, which airfield in Greenland would they be able to shelter them at? Thule is staffed mostly be the US.…and…
C- the global economic implications that Miran’s strategy contained as told elements that would have unintended negative consequences to America’s waning global economic hegemony.
Last time I was in Brussels and Mons, the general sentiment was of NATO’s ‘rump’ having rapidly degrading trust of the US.
I sense the opposite is actually true. Related to my note above, I was in Brussels and Mons months ago and there is growing sentiment that America is of dubious value to NATO’s future. Heck, some countries are growing in sentiment towards seeing/having/forcing America to get of their soil (Poland in particular I believe seriously questions having US V Corps deployed on its soil).
I’ll be swinging through Brussels and Mons in a few weeks and see what the latest sentiment is.
An interesting quandary for people giving consideration to that potential breach of allied sovereignty. We’ll see if “the F-35 doesn’t have and ‘God Code’ in it” holds up…
I wonder what the over/under for F-35 on F-35 is?
The GDP spike from the additional bureaucratic expenditure on sales and income tax preparation and filing would be something else lol.
I think there are good and bad for both models. My question was if presented with the options and a majority voted for the US model, what then? Your response was "at lease it was our decision". I like to engage in thought experiment of a fortress NA without any emotional backlash.
If Trump were to annex the territory of a NATO member that "continued large US military presence throughout Europe" would no longer be seen as a mutual defence partner but rather an occupation force to enforce compliance with American policies.
Those are different goalposts. There are lots of countries in the world I could happily live in, despite whichever flaws I think each has. The point was about resisting American invasion. I'd make the same challenge to those "hoping" for a resistance if I lived in New Zealand and they were (irrationally) concerned about (unlikely) takeover by Australia. Pose the question with Russia or China in the place of the US or Australia and I'll give a different short answer.
It's possible to be patriotic and to be severely critical. Every time I vote, I vote for the position closest to what I would prefer, undeterred by leadership qualities or vague imaginary worries of the electorally near-impossible ascension of some severe brand of social conservativism. And I advocate for it, which is what I'm doing right now. And I will dissent if someone tries to propose that killing or being killed by Americans is really worth anything, which is the same position I take on dealing with any unilaterally seceding region of Canada being opposed by force.
And?
