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Originally Posted by daswig
We've learned from Von Paulus and the Romanians in WWII. You never, EVER leave your flank defense to an "ally" that's not able to hold up it's end of the deal or carry the weight.
If America was TRULY saying "fuck you, we'll do what we want" to Canada, we'd go ahead and put the bases in Canada without Canadian permission. There are excellent technical reasons why it is far better for the bases to be in Northern Canada instead of the Northern US. We don't do that because we're nice people. But there's a very finite limit to our niceness when people are spitting in our faces. To this point, the US response has basically been "OK, sorry you don't want to play with us, but we're going to play anyway, we'll try to stay out of your way". We haven't come REMOTELY close to being nasty about it, even though it negatively affects our defensive posture.
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This is what i am talking about, You state that if america wanted to get nasty they would put thier bases on our land..I don't care that america or any other country is powerfull or poor..I don't see how they can justify doing what they want and disregarding what the other country has to say about what's going on on thier own land..I know that this isn't really an issue, But i'm just going along with what you said.
I don't know if you reffering to us being the ones spitting in your face..That's not what Canada's doing Canada made thier decision based on that we are our own country and not gonna get "bent over"..The way it seems to me is that Canada doesn't want to be seen as a pro war country in any shape or form..Which i am all for it as is alot of canadians.
To my knowledge when it comes to anything war related this is really the only major issue that america & canada don't see eye to eye on..But i trust that if it actually came down to america being invaded, America would want Canada involved and i don't think Canada would back out of a situation like that.
Right now though, Is there any real threat at all of a missile attack on america? Someone already stated that we should put more money into security on the borders and other present threats.
I think the success rate has alot to do with it also..I gotta look into this more.