• MBech@feddit.dk
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    20 hours ago

    USA has shown time and time again that they can do absolutely nothing against a barely structured insurgency. If the canadian military has been paying the slightest bit of attention for the past 70 years, they know not to defend against USA by conventional methods.

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      Population of Iraq: 48 million

      Population of Canada: 41 million

      Area of Iraq: 438,000 km²

      Area of Canada: 9.98 million km²

      US-Iraq Border: 0 km

      US-Canada Border: 8,900 km

      A US invasion of Canada would make Iraq look like a pleasant afternoon picnic in the park.

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        Plus, Iraq was an incompetent, unpopularely totalitarian dictatorship. And that’s before you even go to the cultural and ethnic advantages we’d have as guerillas against the US.