Joelcool7 said:
Man you tell me to lay off the Call Of Duty but seriously Russia would never be foolish enough to invade Canada. You mention Nato would not stand behind us, well the U.K certainly would and so would France and the US. You mention the gas but Canada is the most resource laden country on earth. More fresh water then anywhere else on earth, more lumber , one of the largest gas producing countries which Europe could simply start importing from Canada. Canada is also a commonwealth country and one of the U.K most important allies. Russia would be extremely stupid to start a huge war over the loss of one or two bombers. Example South Korea looses a ship full of Naval troops, an island is pummeled to hell yet they do not fire on North Korea. Why don't they, because they know it is not in their best interest. As for in this imaginary scenerio where Russia has the balls to invade Canada. The US may support us? The US would have to support us for the very reasons you say that Europe would not. A huge amount of the US electricity comes from Canada, future water supplies...Canada, minerals and metals, Canada. The US relies heavily on Canada for many of their natural resources. Also the US would never allow Russia to occupy a nation on its border. In the case of Russia invading Canada it would ignite WWIII, Nato and the United States would be at war with Russia. The whole world would collapse on itself and if Nukes began flying it would be the end. Canada is extremely important to Europe and the US even more so. Nobody would dare invade us, Russia heck even the US wouldn't dare invade Canada. On a global scale Canada has as many allies as the US if not more liked globally. But as I said , Russia would not invade Canada if we shot down a plane. They would send some stern words our way and maybe worst case scenerio close the Canadian Embassy and expell the Canadian Ambassador for a year or two. You need to stop watching so many movies, Russia is not as stupid as you think they are. Also if you read my initial post shooting down the bombers was just one of three suggestions I made. I used it in the title to get the general idea across that this thread is about standing up to Russia. I also suggested seizing the air craft and arresting the pilots. Much more civil and would probubly send the same message! |
1. What makes you think UK and France would back us up? Sure they'll urge Russia to calm down, but there's no way they'd get their hands dirty against someone so powerful. This isn't Iraq we're talking about. This is the country with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and the means by which to single handedly destroy every living thing on this planet. Yes, that includes humans.
2. I'd appreciate if you stopped making "facts" up. Brazil has the most freshwater in the world, followed by Russia. Canada is third. As for lumber: Russia has almost thrice the forest area of Canada. Brazil, as well, has 50% more forest area than Canada.
3. Europe could not "simply start importing gas from Canada." For them to be able to do that a pipeline must exist connecting us to them. In case you're not aware, a vast ocean divides us; building and maintaining a pipeline across an ocean would be extremely expensive. Plus it would take a few decades before it would be ready for use. And even then Canadian gas would be much much more expensive for the Europeans compared to Russian gas.
4. I never said Russia is stupid. Granted my scenario of Russia invading us was exagerated, but do you still want get on the black list of the second most powerful military nation in the world (arguably first if you consider nukes)? Plus, this is exactly the kind of behaviour we're internationally not known for. That is in fact one of the reasons pretty much every nation in the world respects us.
