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Canada, like many other countries around the world, enjoys the luxury of being protected by the US and doesn't have to spend as much money on defense. During W
by lostmymind66 7y ago
Canada, like many other countries around the world, enjoys the luxury of being protected by the US and doesn't have to spend as much money on defense.
During WWII, do you think appeasement would have worked?
The reason many evil countries aren't bombing the US and Canada is because they know they would be obliterated by the US military due to past campaigns.
- gdy 7y ago"the luxury of being protected by the US" Protected from what? From the White Walkers? Who is there to attack Canada (besides the US itself)? The Great Britain is trying to return the lost colony? France is thinking about taking over the Quebec?
- yazan94 7y agoThat's a bit more complicated don't you think? 70+ years with America as a superpower (20+ where it is almost the only one in its class) makes it easy to forget that things could have been massively different. Imagine a case where the Soviet Union did not dissolve, but stabilized as a military and economic equal to the US. Would you say that Canada's peace and prosperity would be guaranteed in this alternative universe? What about other countries in eastern Europe or the Middle East? To give you an couple examples in the current real world, imagine if South Korea or Taiwan didn't have such good relations with America in the post-WW2 peace. It is not that far fetched to think that there could be a single communist Korea, Taiwan could have been swallowed up by mainland China.
- gdy 7y agoIt surely is. I don't think that Canada in your alternative universe would've been worse off than Finland in this one. Finland's neutrality kept it safe ever since the WW2.
- lostmymind66 7y agoWW2 was about conquest and they were invaded by the Russians. Being neutral didn't really save them from the attack. When push comes to shove, neutral countries eventually need to pick sides or they will be taken over.
- hn23 7y agoThe Swiss would disagree. Neutral by constitution..
- Macross8299 7y agoSwiss Neutrality did not save them in WW2 either, only German strategic calculus and the idea within the German high command that a mountain campaign would be too costly in military terms. It wasn't their neutrality that saved them, it was military deterrence. Push did NOT come to shove for them. You cannot seriously assert that if Germany beats the UK and Russia, they will decide to simply leave Switzerland alone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tannenbaum#Nazi_attitudes_towards_Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tannenbaum#Nazi_atti...
- gdy 7y agoYou are misinformed, Finland wasn't neutral before WW2 and it wasn't neutral before the Winter War.