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I'm convinced that like 70 % of Americans would support Trump invading Canada if it happened. All he would need to do is talk about saving the lives of some Troops and they would be cheering the carpet-bombing of Toronto.
it was over 70% for iraq at the time, although some of that support was weaseled behind the un approving it.
just gotta say the moose have WMD and dig up another colin powell
The møøse bit my sister.
I genuinely doubt that. Manufacturing consent for war has always been necessary for Americans, and while that's easy when the target is some non-white country far away and especially when it's a country there's been decades of propaganda leveled against, trying to flip a switch against a country that white supremacist Americans see as human and which right up until that moment have been allies seems a lot harder to sell.
Preemptively attacking their own allies for literally no reason except they felt like it would fracture the American public in ways that terror bombing an uncooperative periphery state couldn't. The US would become a pariah state and quite possibly even start seeing internal guerilla warfare from Canadians and Canadian sympathizers. Might even start getting troop rebellions as soldiers find their conscience when told to murder other racist white people who speak English instead of scary brown people who do not.
Which is why they should do it. Just completely obliterate the empire in the most unforced error of all time.
I mean, I am kinda into it for the bit. America fighting the land that invented war crimes is a better use of my tax money than America fighting children's hospitals.
America will bomb the children's hospitals in kkklanada too. The ruling class won't be the ones to suffer if an invasion goes down
And yet, western infighting is better for the world in total than any other thing the government is likely to so. It is not a beautiful thing true. It is however much better ethically than normal.
Absolutely, I have no doubt that if push comes to shove all these "I didn't vote for him" amerikkkans will be lining up to salute the flag and demand that Winnipeg be glassed to save a single hypothetical American troop