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Soleron said:
No.

Simply because our armed forces are not strong enough to influence a war one way or the other. American technology and resources outclass and outnumber our forces to such a degree that there would be no point. This is assuming no nuclear weapon use - if it was involved then my answer would change.

Two points I would like to make about this.

1. While it is true that the USA's military technology is far more advanced than ours, I'm certain that they would instantly hand over any technologies that would be beneficial to our military campaign to protect them. It would be to their advantage to empower their allies during a domestic invasion.

For example, the cavity magnetron was developed by the British in 1940 for use in world war two. When the USA joined the allies it was agreed that the technology for the cavity magnetron would be handed over to the USA. It ended up making them a far more effective force, it is one of the most important deciding factors of the war.

 

2. Whilst it is true that our military is too small to influence the war in any significant way, it is not the individual army that would make a difference, it is the collective army. For example, during the second world war could the USA, the UK, or the French have stopped the Axis from invading the rest of Europe by themselves? The answer would be no. It was the collective effort that won the war in the end.

In this situation if the combined armies of Europe went to defend the USA it would be an extremely powerful force. Even though individually each army is relatively weak.



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My country (Austrlia) would.



Absolutely.

Despite the fact that the United States has certain colonial designs for Canada, they are a crucial military ally and as good a neighbour as you can hope for in a superpower. Furthermore, you can bet that any army willing to take on 300 million heavily armed Americans isn't going to blink at the idea of taking vast natural resources out of the hands of 30 million not-so-heavily armed Canadians.

Liberating the United States wouldn't just be the moral thing to do, it would be the prudent thing to do.



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Hell fucking no. let the extermination commence.

Sorry but the way i see it is. If it doesnt involve me then why should i care.



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Serious_frusting said:
Hell fucking no. let the extermination commence.

Sorry but the way i see it is. If it doesnt involve me then why should i care.

I guess my forefathers could have said the same thing during WW2.



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Hell yeah I would! (Canada BTW)

I would want to know that America would do the same for us too.


I'd do all I could to help America.



supermario128 said:
You would think countries would feel they had to help out after all we've done for them. Maybe not Russia though.....

Is you serious?

 

@mrstick. America didn't join WWII until it had no other choice (when it was personally attacked). You basically fucked Western Europe and Britain over completely by not helping out your friends sooner. Don't try and make Europe feel guilty about it.



Well, you'd have the guaranteed support of the entirety of NATO ("an attack on one is an attack on all"), plus NATO/EU wanting-to-join, so the likes of Georgia, Morocco (they can pledge trained monkeys again), etc.



famousringo said:
Absolutely.

Despite the fact that the United States has certain colonial designs for Canada, they are a crucial military ally and as good a neighbour as you can hope for in a superpower. Furthermore, you can bet that any army willing to take on 300 million heavily armed Americans isn't going to blink at the idea of taking vast natural resources out of the hands of 30 million not-so-heavily armed Canadians.

Liberating the United States wouldn't just be the moral thing to do, it would be the prudent thing to do.

The US has colonial designs for Canada?

 



mrstickball said:
Serious_frusting said:
Hell fucking no. let the extermination commence.

Sorry but the way i see it is. If it doesnt involve me then why should i care.

I guess my forefathers could have said the same thing during WW2.

They did.

Most people were against the war.

We only got into WW2 because FDR was a stone cold liar who went behind the backs of the american people and against the only campaign promise that mattered to the people who let him in.

FDR did a lot of illegal shit to help the UK in the war.  They even had someone falsely impriosoned for trying to reveal FDR's covert plotting behind America's back.

If it were up to the US we would of never joined the war... however FDR conspired to help the british enough to provoke the Axis powers into attacking us.

 

It turned out to be a positive that he did, since otherwise it would of led to a Russian Hegemony, with them being the first to get the Nuclear bomb....

 

However.  It still remains possibly the biggest betrayal an American President has ever committed against the Amreican People.

Well a sitting President.... Zachary Taylor joined the confederacy afterall.