[Grakel]

You're insane if you think that either those nations would take any real action OR that the US couldn't take them all at once without breaking a sweat. The scope and quality of military power and technology wielded by the US is astounding. Probably just the Navy could take those countries.

[QuarterReptile]

It's interesting to ponder a world where, when Russia goes for Ukraine or Baltic states and China matches up their timing for Taiwan, the US bails on NATO and Pacific allies and goes North instead.

It's ridiculous on so many different levels, and that seems worth considering.

[mbg721]

It sounds ridiculous because the US can't possibly size up its own territorial aims while it's busy committing cultural suicide. Russia and China aren't confined in that way.

[QuarterReptile]

I agree that that is one aspect to consider.

Plus, when such large portions of the economy are exporting culture and currency, the US is basically in the business of selling cooperation. So that would fall apart pretty quickly, and with it the immigration the sustains population despite low fertility rates.

Plus it's just inconceivable that it would be a goal in the US. Maybe that's just good propaganda, but I think not.

[mbg721]

Well, sure, if you consider America's empire as a flex of "softer" power, as in selling cooperation and Disney, then maybe it's just absurd to think of Canada being any more culturally American than it already is.