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Originally Posted by HOOT
Well, looks like y’all will be the 51st state then. 
I never said they would declare war, but they also couldn’t sit by and do nothing. And if they did do nothing then I guess that proves Trump right and NATO is a useless entity. But comparing a US invasion of Canada to Germany taking small plots of land from Czechoslovakia (which were mainly German areas) is a stretch.
I wish my home country nothing but the best, but it’s sad seeing how many people just want to roll over when the first tank hits the border. I guess the difference is at least ISIS cared about their cause. |
I know what you’re saying about these other conflicts, but Canadians aren’t like a lot of other countries. We don’t have mandatory military training, and we’ve never fought wars here. That’s not suggesting that no one has fought in wars elsewhere, because obviously we’ve sent our troops overseas. But the reality is that “we” aren’t really ready for this. I feel like a lot of the people saying they’d fight to the death are people who have never been in war, and the people who come from war torn countries are less enthused.
And that’s not a comment that means to suggest that I think people aren’t as tough as they think. I include myself in that statement, entirely. I’m purely a pacifist, but I also recognize that I’m not cutout to be heading off into battle or things like that. I feel like that’s most of our population and having met plenty of people from this board, I’d hazard a guess that’s most of us here.