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[–] 61 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

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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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    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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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • Sorta... Wars can be about more than territory, which is all that term refers to.

    America achieved all its stated goals for the war, which didn't include "Actually this is mostly just a war of conquest we hope you're too busy to defend against." It just conveniently doesn't mention a couple had already happened, and it would have been gauche to admit we really just wanted the territory.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 57 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I assume the US military has an invasion plan on the books for about every country on the face of the earth. They gotta spend all the trillions of dollars of black money on something.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    “Operation Waffle Garden,” US invasion of Belgium

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    I think my favorite part of this is looking at the Canadian and British plans for if the US invaded Canada.

    Canada's plan was to pre-emptively invade the US, knowing that Canada wouldn't be able to hold the territory long-term. They would go as deep as they could before they started to fall back as slowly as possible, hoping to buy time for the UK to sail over and invade the mainland US.

    The UK's plan was to abandon Canada and just let the Americans take over. Losing Canada was seen as "non-fatal" to the UK, and it was believed that sending an invasion force to fight back would hurt the UK more than if they just abandoned Canada's defense entirely.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    They would attack targets like New Orleans and let American infantry try to bog down in occupying Canada. They'd still invade, just with the goal of a status quo ante bellum by targeting key US ports.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    To be fair, this is hardly a plan, it's just "head north to your nearest Canadian city"

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago

    They didn't need to do anything, our politicians started to deepthroat theirs. Look at Definbaker, scrapped the world's most advanced jet program so the US could give us some Bulmark missiles as defense from Russia and guess what, WE NEVER GOT THEM. 1995 we sold CN Rail to an American. Fast cowards to The Harper regime, he gave the US army promission to be used in Canada if we ask for help, sold of the wheat boards assets to an American for $1 even though it was worth billions. CRA on multiple occasions have let the American company KPMG help the richest Canadians avoid taxes.

    We may as well be part of America except going to a hospital won't bankrupt ya here

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago

    I would assume all sovereign countries would have plans like these as contingencies of contingencies. You would want a plan already made in case some coup happens in your neighboring country and they threaten your sovereignty.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Hey remember when you tried that last time and your precious Whitehouse got burnt down?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Lmao the most recent Canadian W is from the 18th century. Are you implying that the modern Canadians military and modern US military are equals?

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  • [+] 12 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    Batman has a contingency plan to kill every individual in the Justice League, including himself.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    I appreciate that the prairie provinces are just "Ehh, just go generally north."

    Also, scary thing is, that's exactly how to do it.

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  • it's okay Canada had plans too

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    We we gonna do WHAT? HAVE WE NEVER HEARD OF THE ATTEMPTED INVASION OF MOSCOW IN WW2?

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