stevep
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Post by stevep on Apr 14, 2017 23:08:03 GMT
My thinking is that, rationally, it makes a lot more sense to use our resources to capture Western Canada than to use them to mess around with Europe, which did us no good whatsoever. Since Wilson convinced us to do the latter, I'd think TR could talk us into the former. I'm also counting on that area being thinly populated. Wikipedia says that BC had 524,582 people in 1921, Manitoba 610,118, and the others about the same. And would there be much collaboration? How many Canadians, at that time, would have preferred to be in the US where they could expect not to be drafted and sent to Europe? Of course, after we take the territory, BC and Alberta would have to be renamed Columbia and Roosevelt.  And Quebec will most likely be made a independent country. Independent on US terms, i.e. as long as they did everything the US told them to. Given that the vast majority of the French Canadians would realise their culture is a lot safer as a large part of Canada, with constitutional protections in place than as a small part/satalitte of the US. On baloo's 2nd point you could see the liberation of Hawaii from colonial occupation. |
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