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Even today, every member of the Canadian military swears fealty to the King of England.
by some_random 1mo ago
Even today, every member of the Canadian military swears fealty to the King of England.
- TitaRusell 1mo agoMexico is an independent country because the US elite belatedly realised that adding millions of brown citizens would be a bad idea. Canada is an independent country because it had the British empire backing them.
- cheesecakegood 1mo agoThat’s… not really accurate. Some factions in the US flirted with taking over more or even all of Mexico for the grand total of like, a few months, and even then it never would have passed Congress. Additionally “the US elite” is a flawed and inaccurate understanding of mid-1800s politics as even the most basic of historical understanding will tell you. It’s mostly regional politics and economic constituencies, not class struggle. You’re just projecting modern thought and dynamics onto the past.
- triceratops 1mo agoTo the King of Canada, actually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada#Personification_of_the_Canadian_state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada#Personifica... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada#Foreign_visits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada#Foreign_vis...
- ButlerianJihad 1mo agoYeah, interestingly, even though many Americans believe in an office called "King of England", that is not actually one of his titles in the modern world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_the_United_Kingdom#English_monarchy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_the_United_Kingdom...