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The US is hardly an exception. It conquered the west, invaded Mexico and even tried to invade Canada once precisely because of this geographical determinism. I
by pydry 4y ago
The US is hardly an exception. It conquered the west, invaded Mexico and even tried to invade Canada once precisely because of this geographical determinism.
Its later stability is a testament to just how geographically secure its borders are.
If, in an alternate timeline, America was a weakened ex super power and Canada joined the Warsaw Pact I imagine it would take all of 5 minutes for the tanks to roll into Vancouver.
- paganel 4y agoThe US became the US after all the events that you mentioned, I’d say that after 1865. As I said, Russia has been on the same quest of finding insurmountable natural borders that would have defined for it for good, but geography doesn’t help it. And during that quest it also tries to re-define itself in order to reach its final form, so to speak, again, much as red US had done.