This is hardly historically true. What actually happened was Europe was devastated by two industrial total wars which is what led to this circumstance. And the

This is hardly historically true. What actually happened was Europe was devastated by two industrial total wars which is what led to this circumstance. And then in the aftermath faced a Russia which promptly seized a whole bunch of Baltic states. Or to put it another way: up till this year Canada was not planning it's strategic defence strategy with the US as a possible threat actor.