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Originally Posted by Snakeeye
Uhh, because the world community wouldnt allow it?
Canada already is no match for the US militaraly, and any American invasion would be over in a matter of hours. Why hasnt the US invaded Canada to take our oil? Why do they instead choose to purchase it?
Why would that situation change if Alberta seperated?
It's a wonder every land locked nation in Europe hasnt been annexed by their larger neighbors, given how it is impossible for them to survive.
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The world community wouldn't allow what? Canada and the US squeezing every drop and dollar out of us that they can? It is the name of the game after all.
Call me crazy, but I don't think the world community is going to raise a big stink about unfair trade practices between Canada/US and a country they never heard of. And if they did, I've got very little confidence that the Americans in particular will care too much at all about what the global community has to say about it.
Landlocked European nations are not comparable for a variety of reasons, the main one being "they aren't sitting on a gigantic oil reserve". If for example Luxembourg happened to be sitting on a trillion barrels of oil, things would be a little different over there, don't you think? I doubt there would even be a country called Luxembourg