[FredPret]

Agreed but would be nice to have a backstop in case of invasion from either the North or South. I guess Nato is already supposed to do that though.

Furthermore, I was wrong about trade: we already have free trade agreements with all the rest of the rich world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_trade_agreements_of_Canad...

Maybe we just need an expansion of East-West infrastructure so as to shift some of that easy default US trade elsewhere.