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      I think you have your hierarchy reversed. Kidnapping is about extortion. The intention is always to give the victim back. Capturing in this case refers to something already worse than kidnapping.

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      I think the panama canal will be next. Easier than those two and makes the statement he’s serious about it. So they can better take his deal and be grateful

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      Which is why they’re bombing Nigeria? They threaten white settler states like Canada because they know settlers will care more about themselves than people in the global south.

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      Maybe Greenland but Canada no way. Canada will put up a fierce fight and a LOT of Americans will defect to fight for democracy rather than live under a pedofile king and his circus of Nazis

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        It would be over before we knew it had started. The independent nation of Canada is a fragile thing and they might not be able to cleanly take over politically, but they can certainly destroy it in a single decapitating strike.

        What makes you think we’re so much different than Venezuela? Or Iraq? What, because we’re mostly white? How many principled meatheads in the US military refused orders and defected any of the other times?

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          I see Canada more likely to be like Afghanistan or Vietnam. I definitely don’t believe one strike would win anything. I was raised by a delta special forces Vietnam vet green beret and he would constantly say NEVER underestimate guerrilla warfare. I just don’t think they would be subdued easily and I do think they would be skilled with guerrilla tactics and withstanding the cold. I think the friendship between Canada and America would be a huge blow to troop morale. I don’t think Mexico would fall easily either and 99% of Americans in the west anyway have Mexican friends(very bad for morale). I think Mexico would put up a fight and I think both countries would wear down the moral of the military and cost way too much. The only effective strategy would be to do an internal coup after heavily propagandizing the populations of the countries and I do see that as a possibility for Canada

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    So he truely believes he runs the whole world… If anyone is about to start ww3 anytime soon … it’s him.

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      Don’t be ridiculous. FIFA doesn’t just hand out their prestigious, respected peace prize to anyone.

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      I would argue we’re already in WW3 it’s just not a full on “hot” world war quiet yet, this might do it though

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        It won’t. Venezuela isn’t a member of BRICS or anything. They’re a member of OPEC, but that’s an economic cartel, not a military alliance. They don’t have the necessary allies to come to their aid to turn it into a world war.

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        The US inherited it from the British, there were people already living here. They have been invading sovereign nations in the name of the US since independence.

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            The 1700s. Whereas the last skirmishes of the Indian Wars ended after WWI. Europeans invaded the sovereign nations that were already here and then the US, after independence, continued to expand westward into places where people already lived.

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                Howbout you go reread their comment and do some math.

                The Wounded Knee Massacre which ended tribal resistance and completed the conquest of their land happened in 1890, and then the “Renegade period” went on until 1924.

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                  Holy fucking shit too many of you talk about shit you do not understand. The US is still occupying those lands and intends to eradicate Native American nations. If you also actually read my comment, you’d see that the person above was trying to explain something (inadequately) that was outside the scope of what I was addressing.

                  Fucking some of you have to develop humility jfc.

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      Leader of the free world has quite a history, full of violations of other countries sovereignty.

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    "We invaded sovereign soil, going after oil

    Taking countries is a hobby paid for by the oil lobby

    Same as in Iraq and Afghanistan

    And Ahmadinejad say they coming for Iran

    They only love the rich and how they loathe the poor

    If I say any more they might be at my door."

    Killer Mike - Reagan

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    Honestly, having oil reserves is a national security issue at this point. Until they find a way to cheaply ruin oil reserves, no country is safe from the US.

    If you want to defeat us, peace hasn’t worked but starvation sure as hell will.

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    I am not seeing enough Star Wars memes in my feed after this.

    Maduro Leia and Trump Vader would be a start.