for all those americans entertaining the idea of invading canada - idiot and useful idiot alike - lets think about this together shall we. -america's power in the world is not in its military, it is in the breadth of its strategic alliances and the soft power of your economy. -turning on not only what is one of your oldest allies, but what is as close to a brother as nation states get - born at roughly the same time from the same parents - would be one of the most shocking betrayals in modern history. -your alliances and your soft power would disappear, and the economic benefits therein would follow. -you would be trading the status as the world hegemon - a status granted to you by virtue of your western values and the rule of law - for an insurgency that would be more costly than vietnam and afghanistan combined. -the rockies cover vastly more, and more unforgiving territory than the hindu kush. -the canadian arctic and sub-arctic more are dangerous than the jungles of vietnam, and canadians are accustomed to it. -our armed forces might be underfunded to the extreme, but one thing we have historically done well is training, training that can be passed on. -despite erroneous perceptions, we are actually one of the most well-armed countries in the world. -we are soft and over-educated, but enough of us would rise to the challenge. we would have no shortage of crack drone pilots. or drone engineers. -but the most crucial fact many among you fail to grasp is this: -we look like you, sound like you, and live right across from you along the longest most porous land border in the history of the world. -the amount of cross-border families and relationships ensure we would have no shortage of people willing to collaborate. -you would be more divided from within than ever before, civil war would be inevitable. -it would be the end of any kind of rules-based world order. -your life getting worse would be a metaphysical certainty. mine too. and not just north americans.
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