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Our politicians have said they would rather burn the country to the ground, than give it over to America.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> Our politicians have said they would rather burn the country to the ground, than give it over to America Politicians say a lot of things. And as Clausewitz said, war is politics by other means. There is no world in which Canada resists even a limited American assault in the near term.
- nubinetwork 2y ago
  I never said anything about resisting, but I don't think there's much value in a scuttled landmass... maybe you could turn the country into a frozen parking lot, but nobody's going to want to come up here just for shits and giggles.
  - JumpCrisscross 2y ago
    > don't think there's much value in a scuttled landmass Of course there is [1]. (It's exorbitantly more valuable as a civilisation. I would have thought this parenthetical too obvious to be worth mentioning a few years ago.) [1] https://atlas.gc.ca/mins/en/index.html https://atlas.gc.ca/mins/en/index.html
- red-iron-pine 2y ago
  sounds like a solid reason for Canada to acquire nuclear weapons US in the south, and Russia in the arctic. Saskatoon / greater SK is the 2nd largest supplier of uranium in the world, and most US nuclear weapons + plants are running on Canadian hot rocks. creating medium range missile would be trivial for Canada in terms of resources and technological / engineering skill-sets in country. not a far flight from upper QC to NYC, or from upper Nunavut to Petrograd
  - 486sx33 2y ago
    Interestingly enough some of the US nuclear bombs contained Canadian made plutonium “ Despite the declaration of peaceful use, from 1955 to 1985, Chalk River facilities supplied about 254.2 kilograms (560 lb) of plutonium, in the form of spent reactor fuel, to the U.S. Department of Energy to be used in the production of nuclear weapons.[3] (The bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, used about 6.4 kilograms (14 lb) of plutonium.)” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalk_River_Laboratories https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalk_River_Laboratories
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seanmcdirmid 2y ago
They only say that because that’s what most of the Canadians think as well. Even the Conservative Party is trying to pretend to not like Trump now.

> Our politicians have said they would rather burn the country to the ground, than give it over to America Politicians say a lot of things. And as Clausewitz said, war is politics by other means. There is no world in which Canada resists even a limited American assault in the near term.

nubinetwork 2y ago
I never said anything about resisting, but I don't think there's much value in a scuttled landmass... maybe you could turn the country into a frozen parking lot, but nobody's going to want to come up here just for shits and giggles.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > don't think there's much value in a scuttled landmass Of course there is [1]. (It's exorbitantly more valuable as a civilisation. I would have thought this parenthetical too obvious to be worth mentioning a few years ago.) [1] https://atlas.gc.ca/mins/en/index.html https://atlas.gc.ca/mins/en/index.html
red-iron-pine 2y ago
sounds like a solid reason for Canada to acquire nuclear weapons US in the south, and Russia in the arctic. Saskatoon / greater SK is the 2nd largest supplier of uranium in the world, and most US nuclear weapons + plants are running on Canadian hot rocks. creating medium range missile would be trivial for Canada in terms of resources and technological / engineering skill-sets in country. not a far flight from upper QC to NYC, or from upper Nunavut to Petrograd
- 486sx33 2y ago
  Interestingly enough some of the US nuclear bombs contained Canadian made plutonium “ Despite the declaration of peaceful use, from 1955 to 1985, Chalk River facilities supplied about 254.2 kilograms (560 lb) of plutonium, in the form of spent reactor fuel, to the U.S. Department of Energy to be used in the production of nuclear weapons.[3] (The bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, used about 6.4 kilograms (14 lb) of plutonium.)” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalk_River_Laboratories https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalk_River_Laboratories
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seanmcdirmid 2y ago

They only say that because that’s what most of the Canadians think as well. Even the Conservative Party is trying to pretend to not like Trump now.