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What If Trump is serious about annexing Canada?
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Just like they were "fighting for freedom" by invading Iraq, a country that didn't have shit to do with the 9/11 attack or anything else going on at home at the time? Even after it was known they lied about "weapons of mass destruction", people still signed up to be sent over there.
They just need to find the right kind of propaganda to justify going into Canada, and then the meatheads will follow.
Iraq wasn't their neighbor, the average american had rarely met or interacted with an Iraqi IRL or online. The same is not true for Canada. Our cultures and demographics are far more similar. It isn't impossible but the propaganda would have to be quite impressive to shift the overall attitude towards Canadians.
You underestimate the American thirst for violence, destruction, and war.
They will fuck with anything and anyone as long as they get that adrenaline and neuron boost.
Meh, we have WAY more people interested in staying home and jacking off than those who are blood thirsty for war.
And to add to this, once many service members got to know and bond with Iraqi local nationals, many of them formed friendships that we/they hold dear. Of my service member friends we all have fond memories with them. Of the ones I've met since being in, they all have fond memories too.
They don't even need that much propaganda. I remember soldiers pumping "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor" as a war anthem in Iraq. We have enough stupid shit in our "culture" to help justify it anyway. Just look at the pointless lyrics to that stupid fucking song that basically mean nothing yet somehow couldn't be more on the nose if it tried.
Sounds like every idiot asshole that signed up to kill innocent Iraqis and yet they used it as a war anthem for... killing innocent Iraqis. Fuck me I hate living in this stupid ass country.
EDIT: Also check the YouTube comments for that fucking video, plenty of people still love it.
Iraq is a country far far away that most Americans have never visited. Plus Saddam was a real criminal who attacked his own people with chemical weapons. That makes it easy for an average American to believe the false claims.
Canada is right across the border. So many Americans have been there. many have wives and husbands from there. They are a democracy. no mass killing or genocides. Besides Trump is not even accusing them of anything. He just want to take it "for national security"
The two situations are not the same.
No genocides? Ummm.... I guess you could say that Canada has committed the same genocides as the usa.
To support your point since people don't want to do the research themselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_genocide_of_Indigenous_peoples
Also let's not underestimate the US hate for French people, and there's enough people who speak French in Canada to "justify" it.
I think they meant no active genocides to justify military action right now. But yes, unfortunately Canada has a disgusting history of genocide and there are many still healing from those atrocities.
Canadians aren't all brown
Just the natives that immigrant Canadians did a genocide on? But I guess they don't count as "Canadian" to most people.
When someone says "Americans," what do you envision?
A bunch of bloodthirsty fucks who have marginalized native peoples so much that Native American women are the most trafficked group in the country? What's the point you're trying to make here?
Right, white people. That's my entire point.