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The US is not paying the Canadian bill

The US is not paying the Canadian bill
Lord Tammerlain:The US is not paying the Canadian bill, the only country that can attack Canada would be the US, and no matter how much we spend we could not outspend the US
Lord Tammerlain:
Don't forget Russia, France and Greenland/Denmark. They're all right next to us as well.
Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
First I thought...."This is a really dumb thread to have be necro'd." but then I thought, "Eh...may as well jump in."The US is not paying the Canadian bill, the only country that can attack Canada would be the US, and no matter how much we spend we could not outspend the US
What annoys me a bit, being a little into history, is the picture of France being utterly terrible and just surrendering all the time, when they carried much of WWI on their backs and did a damn good job of it. Then going back in history for hundreds of years they were one of the main powerhouses out there.Well Denmark invades one island every so often which we take back right after
The French are cheese eating surrender monkeys, and Russia would have a lot of trouble moving enough soldiers across the ocean to actually invade. Russia could attack with missiles or bombers however
Attack as in invade with intent to take overFirst I thought...."This is a really dumb thread to have be necro'd." but then I thought, "Eh...may as well jump in."
Why do you think the only country that can attack Canada is the US, if I were to even accept that statement as fact?
Afghans and Vietnamese couldn't outspend the US either and they resisted American invasion. Plus, given Canada's cache internationally anyone who invades us is basically declaring war on the world.The US is not paying the Canadian bill, the only country that can attack Canada would be the US, and no matter how much we spend we could not outspend the US
OK...so I'll ask again, under your premise above. Why is it the US is the only country that can invade Canada?With the attack in this case meaning to invade, very few countries have the military capacity to invade a country that is not adjacent to that country. The US is realistically the only country that has the ability to invade a country that is not adjacent to it. The ships, the manpower, the logistics, to invade, take control over a country thousands of miles away is only maintained by the US
There were a lot of other issues there. Afghanistan turned into more of a policing and nation building mission, which is something that cannot be accomplished. We technically had the power to subdue but that would've required going old school barbarian on them and that's not really our thing. We have a habit of playing with nearly both hands tied behind our backs these days, which I'm not saying is bad. I don't think it would be good to be completely brutal but it wouldn't be as much of an issue if we didn't go to war all the time, and did it only when it was actually needed.Afghans and Vietnamese couldn't outspend the US either and they resisted American invasion.
And today French special forces hold the line in African jurisdictions. They've been scaling back lately due to lack of support.What annoys me a bit, being a little into history, is the picture of France being utterly terrible and just surrendering all the time, when they carried much of WWI on their backs and did a damn good job of it. Then going back in history for hundreds of years they were one of the main powerhouses out there.
OK...so I'll ask again, under your premise above. Why is it the US is the only country that can invade Canada?
Let's narrow this down to less variables that are more likely (it's not like the UK or France would've ever wanted to invade Canada so we can stick to more likely threats for simplification purposes).Russia would have issues invading and controlling Ukraine which is right next to Russia. Trying to do the same to Canada would be beyond Russian resources.
China does not have the naval sealift capacity to invade Canada. Heck an invasion of Taiwan would be very risky and Taiwan is only 100 miles away.
Let's narrow this down to less variables that are more likely (it's not like the UK or France would've ever wanted to invade Canada so we can stick to more likely threats for simplification purposes).
Why is Russia and China not a threat? To be more specific, history didn't start today. Why is Russia's and China's power limited today to levels where they are less of a threat to Canada?
Did the USSR collapse in a vacuum? Nothing significantly contributed to that?The USSR collapsed, leaving the various states that made up the USSR much weaker than they were. Even under the USSR, it would have been difficult but not impossible for it to invade Canada. Now as Russia it has equipment that in general is decades old and has a general lack of funding. Invading Ukraine would be possible, but not an air:l/sea lift thousands of miles away
China hasn't been limited in size, scope, and influence by anything over the decades?China does not have the air/sea lift capacity to invade Taiwan at this moment, let alone a country thousands of miles away. It also needs to keep a defence force in China to defend its borders.
Ten to twenty years it might change for China, but historically China has only expanded when under non Chinese leadership. Under Chinese leadership it has only worked to retake historical borders.
So you admit that neither are a realistic threat to Canada at this time?Did the USSR collapse in a vacuum? Nothing significantly contributed to that?
China hasn't been limited in size, scope, and influence by anything over the decades?
As an American I could think of a lot of things about Canada that annoy me; however there are 2 things.... no, three.... which makes me like Canada:
1. Hockey
2. Canadian Beer
3. How Canada helped to snuggle some of our American diplomats out of Iran after Iran had kidnapped people at our embassy.
Ah....so you posit that the US could've just bounced from Europe after WWII and Russia wouldn't have taken over the rest of the countries there, and not had a significantly stronger economy after having done that and not be held in check and combated by the US for decade.So you admit that neither are a realistic threat to Canada at this time?
For China the US has not done much, since the Korean War 70 years ago.
For the USSR, Canada was spending a lot on it military during the cold War. The US is the one who decided to keep military spending at very high levels, for its own internal reasons. Not related to actual threat levels
What are China's ambitions?Ah....so you posit that the US could've just bounced from Europe after WWII and Russia wouldn't have taken over the rest of the countries there, and not had a significantly stronger economy after having done that and not be held in check and combated by the US for decade.
That the US isn't a constant presence in the Pacific hasn't contained China's ambitions. Nope...the U.S. could've just stayed home and closed up and nothing different wouldn't have happened. No siree.
I can also see that during the Cold War Canada was literally the linchpin holding everyone at bay and was the reason western democracy was upheld.
Please pass me some of those history books so I can learn more.
So many defensive uploads.
Here is a link to thread #2 because
the first thread got too large.
http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/is-it-true-part-deux.495478/
And much of the criticism comes from "them".
Who better to know!
One my favs
is soft on cannibalism.![]()
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/343574...bc1ffa9/ss_canadian-man-who-beheaded-bus.html
Canadian man who beheaded bus
passenger granted total freedom
A Canadian man who was found not criminally responsible for beheading and cannibalizing a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus has been granted his freedom. . .
Hoping some of the good ones come out with
a more honest approach on this Board. eh
Moi
Watcher
The guy who beheaded the other person saved everyone on the bus. The gut who was killed was a demon. Or at least the voices in the guy who did the killing said so
@SNOWFLAKE asks
"What you got against Canadians? . . . "
Moi says, "What is NOT to got against Canadians"
the reply would be shorter.
Sponsoring an image of "nice"
they rely ontax payers to cover
their fair share such as The Cold War
while behaving with duplicity around the globe
and along that unguarded border.
Example: Cheap flights from Mexico
to feed illegals into.
I could go on and on and will add more later but, suffice to say
never forget
Moi
The American News Network just disappeared after producing
Featuring, passing aspersons
John Candy, Lorne Greene, Monty Hall, Doug Henning, Margot Kidder, Eugene Levy, Rich Little, Howie Mandel, Lorne Michaels, Anne Murray, Leslie Nielsen, Morley Safer, William Shatner, Martin Short, Alan Thicke & Dave Thomas.
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Support the Dual Wall Solution!
Across an immense, unguarded, ethereal border, Canadians, cool and unsympathetic,
regard our America with envious eyes and slowly and surely draw their plans against us.
So many defensive uploads.
Here is a link to thread #2 because
the first thread got too large.
http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/is-it-true-part-deux.495478/