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Frazzled wrote: He who controls the Poutain controls the Universe!
Military fact: Canada has never lost a war. Don't mess with Canada
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also, I'm pretty sure there's a old law that still says Queen Elizabeth is head of the Canadian military...
Would have to get her to sign that one off.
Nope. The Governor General, who is the Queen's official representative in Canada, is the head of our military.
As for combining our military with our southern neighbours? No way.
A portion of our gear is highly maintained museum quality, our training is better due to limited numbers, and we're not giving up our kilts & pipes + the beer, syrup and Timmies rations.
Nor are we taking back Bieber... You guys 'won' him fair and square in the hockey semi-finals in Sochi last year!
Meh keep your training. You can be the most trained swordsman ever but if somebody comes up to you with a gun it's irrelevant. We have stealth aircraft and all sorts of disgusting awesome stuff like drones. I think i'll take super advanced military hardware to being able to shoot a sniper rifle with your tongue.
I know it's 80's and 90's cold war era stuff but play the 'wargame' series. You will feel bad for Denmark and Australia/new Zealand's military of the 80's and 90's. Then take a look at the usa's military. At least the gear of france, west Germany and the uk had decent stuff in 80's-90's era. Aussies probably had helicopters with machine guns. Seriously I could probably equip all of the news copters of the usa during the 80's with machine guns and win against the aussie's helicopter force with it during the same time period. Denmark on the other hand had maybe 2 good units in that game. In a realistic fight Denmark and Australia would probably fold faster than a stack of cards.
Meh what do you guys make money off of anyway? I'm guessing Tim Horton's, hockey, logging (lumberjacks ), maple syrup, terrance and phillip and celine dion accounting for 80% of your profits ;P. Yes I joke. Don't you guys have ubisoft and wasn't Deus Ex: Human Revolution made in Canada?
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Anyway Canada should accept this deal because otherwise.
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Personally I would be all aboard with this plan. The Canadian soldiers I had the honor to serve with were great, literally the same as US soldiers in almost every way except that when I asked them if they had seen the Bruins game the night before they were able to answer with Yes, and usually followed by some kind of derisive jab at my team .
What say you fellow Americans and Canadians? would you be ok with that plan going through?
No. US and Canadian forces are already cooperating in an excellent manner, according to both sides. Fully integrating our militaries for expeditionnary forces is redundant in the current political climate, where we already fully cooperate on every large scale ventures. It could only become a problem further down the road, once we found an expedition on which we truly disagree.
[...] for conflict is the great teacher, and pain, the perfect educator.
Personally I would be all aboard with this plan. The Canadian soldiers I had the honor to serve with were great, literally the same as US soldiers in almost every way except that when I asked them if they had seen the Bruins game the night before they were able to answer with Yes, and usually followed by some kind of derisive jab at my team .
What say you fellow Americans and Canadians? would you be ok with that plan going through?
No. US and Canadian forces are already cooperating in an excellent manner, according to both sides. Fully integrating our militaries for expeditionnary forces is redundant in the current political climate, where we already fully cooperate on every large scale ventures. It could only become a problem further down the road, once we found an expedition on which we truly disagree.
Canadians are usually easy to work together with even if you're not from one of the English-speaking nations. My father and those of his friends who served as UN peacekeepers usually had only positive things to say about Canadians in the same operations. Professional but not stuck-up about it, and pretty easygoing when off duty. Complaints were mostly about NATO protocols (and local parties) that slowed down response times or made it impossible to send anything but one of the "neutral" forces to check on certain areas.
Why mix them up with the US (or anything else) when they handle themself well already? Besides, it would mean Canada starts taking heat for US actions even if they're not interested.
Quite. I'm no military buff, but I'm given to understand the Red Berets are pretty bad-ass as paratroopers go. Strange that they've been handed over to the Germans so... quietly.
flamingkillamajig wrote: Meh keep your training. You can be the most trained swordsman ever but if somebody comes up to you with a gun it's irrelevant. We have stealth aircraft and all sorts of disgusting awesome stuff like drones. I think i'll take super advanced military hardware to being able to shoot a sniper rifle with your tongue.
This would never happen. It would be complete political suicide for whatever Prime Minister would implement it (really only Harper would ever consider it). Not to mention the obvious fact America gets......in a lot of wars. Like seriously...a lot. Why the hell would we want to be part that?
), maple syrup, terrance and phillip and celine dion accounting for 80% of your profits ;P. Yes I joke. Don't you guys have ubisoft and wasn't Deus Ex: Human Revolution made in Canada?
