• M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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    11 months ago

    The usa thought the insurgency was bad in Afghanistan, wait until they see what the combo of the largest undefended boarder, a people with a very similar look and culture (at least for language) and oh yeah a unpopular occupation of the country that has had more entries added into the Geneva conventions then any other nation.

    Yeah, and about those nukes in shared sites on Canadian land, all isolated and infamously under defended…

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      11 months ago

      it’s a similar situation that Ukrainians have right now, as many eastern Ukrainians speak russian natively, and with similar accent to Russians from south (Krasnodar, Kursk etc), so they blend right in, but this doesn’t work in opposite direction. i’m not sure if they’re taking advantage of it in behind enemy lines activities, as some of sabotage is ascribed to local resistance organizations

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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        11 months ago

        100% they are. Think of how the USA would deal with even a fraction the damage and casualties Ukraine has inflicted so far.

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        11 months ago

        Diversity in that it will be Canadians proper rather than Brits along with any and all who wish to participate.

        Equality in that the US should receive what it has given and what it threatens.

        Inclusion in that everyone is welcome to the bonfire. To paraphrase some fuckwad, ‘be there, it’ll be wild’.

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    11 months ago

    I follow the proud American tradition my grandfather had of fighting fascism.

    If the government of the states decides to be fascist, well…

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    11 months ago

    Whoa there your choices are snow, jungle, desert, or Arctic ice if you join the US side. Come on how many wars do you get to choose which server environment to play on? And if we do really good we can get the DLC level European Island Country! They say that one will feature the Navy more prominently.

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    11 months ago

    🎶 …and I’m ashamed to be an American, where dying in gutters called “free…” 🎶

  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    you know how people were asking how people in Russia weren’t violently fighting against Putin when he started the ukrane-russia war?

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    11 months ago

    We burned your White House down once, we’ll do it again!

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    11 months ago

    To be sure

    spoiler

    St Patrick Battalion

    My name is John Riley
    I’ll have your ear only a while
    I left my dear home in Ireland
    It was death, starvation or exile
    And when I got to America
    It was my duty to go
    Enter the Army and slog across Texas
    To join in the war against Mexico

    It was there in the pueblos and hillsides
    That I saw the mistake I had made
    Part of a conquering army
    With the morals of a bayonet blade
    So in the midst of these poor, dying Catholics
    Screaming children, the burning stench of it all
    Myself and two hundred Irishmen
    Decided to rise to the call

    From Dublin City to San Diego
    We witnessed freedom denied
    So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
    And we fought on the Mexican side,
    We formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
    And we fought on the Mexican side

    We marched 'neath the green flag of Saint Patrick
    Emblazoned with “Erin Go Bragh”
    Bright with the harp and the shamrock
    And “Libertad para Mexicana”
    Just fifty years after Wolftone
    Five thousand miles away
    The Yanks called us a Legion of Strangers
    And they can talk as they may

    But from Dublin City to San Diego
    We witnessed freedom denied
    So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
    And we fought on the Mexican side,
    We formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
    And we fought on the Mexican side

    We fought them in Matamoros
    While their volunteers were raping the nuns
    In Monterey and Cerro Gordo
    We fought on as Ireland’s sons
    We were the red-headed fighters for freedom
    Amidst these brown-skinned women and men
    Side by side we fought against tyranny
    And I daresay we’d do it again

    From Dublin City to San Diego
    We witnessed freedom denied
    So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
    And we fought on the Mexican side,
    We formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
    And we fought on the Mexican side

    We fought them in five major battles
    Churobusco was the last
    Overwhelmed by the cannons from Boston
    We fell after each mortar blast
    Most of us died on that hillside
    In the service of the Mexican state
    So far from our occupied homeland
    We were heroes and victims of fate

    From Dublin City to San Diego
    We witnessed freedom denied
    So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
    And we fought on the Mexican side

  • Fuzemain@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Let’s not joke hear CA doesn’t stand a chance. They’ve no nukes. They lack economic power. And they don’t have a cultural identity beyond “hey we aren’t America”. The last thing Canada wants is to fight a global super power.

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      11 months ago

      Sure, maybe they’d win the invasion easily, but can they win an occupation of a hostile populace for an indeterminate duration? The 21st Century repeatedly suggests the answer to that is “no, eh”.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      They’ve no nukes.

      You’re gonna nuke an upwind state that you’d like to conquer? It’d be a drone fight like Ukraine.

      They lack economic power.

      California’s economy ranks fifth internationally, behind the US, China, Germany, and Japan. On a per capita basis, California’s GDP is greater than that of all of these countries.

      they don’t have a cultural identity

      Dude, that’s bogus. This is literally the same bullshit Putin says about Ukraine.

    • nuke@sh.itjust.worksM
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      11 months ago

      I here you but what if they challenge us to a hockey game? I don’t think we’re prepared for how ugly this can get.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        11 months ago

        And it’s hockey season, you ever try to get between a Canadian and a good hockey game? They’ll win so fast they don’t have time to get sober!

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        11 months ago

        Just think of all those US soldiers slipping and sliding across the zamboni fields while the graceful Canadians glide on their skis. No attacker stands a chance.

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      11 months ago

      The last thing the US wants is to be a pariah to the UK, Australia, NZ and South Africa. Them old commonwealth loyalties run deep. Not to mention France would take extreme exception to Quebec.

      Even if we didnt intervene militarily we all love Canada, It would be economic suicide.

      • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        South Africa is already against America, they’re in bed with China and Russia, they’re the S of “BRICS”

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      11 months ago

      “Hey we aren’t X” has earned the presidency of the United States every 4 years for at least as long as I’ve been alive. Never doubt the power of “hey we aren’t X”.

      In fact, that should be Metas new slogan.

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      11 months ago

      Germany, Austria and Switzerland speak German, and are still different countries. US, UK, Canada, NZ and Australia speak English, and are different countries France and Belgium speak French, are different countries. The entire Arabic speaking world is spread across like 20 countries. Russia and Ukraine both speak Russian*, and one tried to merge with the other, violently, and are now bitter enemies probably forever…

      Is “Fuck off and leave people alone” an option in peoples brains?