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| quote: | Originally posted by Shaya007
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. ~Charles Sumner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sumner
and the only alliance we need is the U.S of A and we'll have it for many years to come regardless of who is running this country.
They need Canada and its massive untapped resources, so as long as we got what they need, they'll be around to protect us
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Well said sir...
| quote: | Originally posted by jester
Canada does has a nice amount of resources. We just sit in a bad spot... the south of us is the US, the west of us is China and the North we got Russia. Also don't forget the US tried to invade Canada a few centuries ago and they will try again.Those countries wont invade us for metals, but they will invade us for our fresh water. We could make water, but we need a shit load hydrogen and fire.
Canada pretty much a sitting duck. I would rather have Canada prepared for a conflict when it comes to us, then us being overrun by 1 of those 3 or all 3 of them at the same time. |
Wrong imo. Firstly because war between fully developed nations is pretty much incomprehensible as there would be no viable justification for it. A few hundred years ago you could say "they have water, we're going to invade and take it." but times have changed obviously.
Secondly is they just plain don't need to. With the commercialization and privatization of resources all that needs to be done is by the companies in charge of them and pay lobbyists to get rules relaxed on raping the hell out of them. Why spend $5 billion on a messy war to capture resources when you can spend a fraction of that and steal the resources legally? BTW many American and international organisations already own lakes up north and are spending large sums on lobbying for freedom to export the water as they please. They also own the vast majority of the oil sands as well. So you're saying the States would invade us to capture land that they already own?
The fact so many US companies operate here, trade ties are so close, longest unprotected border, NAFTA (etc etc the list goes on) means that the States already has and will always have a huge vested interest in protecting Canada regardless of NATO. I totally agree China and Russia are much bigger threats for any hostility but for the reasons above I can guarantee you the States wouldn't let either of those countries perform aggressive takeovers of our resources (or even friendly for that matter).
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