Well, so did the Iraqis and the Afghanis and the Libyans and the Palestinians. Nevertheless, I think we can all agree that Americans will be greeted as liberators.
Lets get cross border trade to zero.
Practically speaking, that’s impossible. The actual population of Canada is distributed in a thin smear over the tops of the US, primarily clustered in major metro areas that pair with American cities. Trying to divide Detroit and Windsor or Toronto and Buffalo would be about as easy as dividing Ft. Worth from Dallas, or Laredo, TX from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
Virtually no one living in these communities actually wants that. Hell, Canada has its fair share of Trumpies while America has a healthy chunk of New England / Midwestern Polite People. It wouldn’t even be a clean split. You’d need to do some kind of Iraq Civil War Sunni / Shia militant purging to get to where you’re trying to go.
You would have more luck annexing US territory down to 47th parallel than to cut off trade with US border towns.
Well, so did the Iraqis and the Afghanis and the Libyans and the Palestinians. Nevertheless, I think we can all agree that Americans will be greeted as liberators.
Practically speaking, that’s impossible. The actual population of Canada is distributed in a thin smear over the tops of the US, primarily clustered in major metro areas that pair with American cities. Trying to divide Detroit and Windsor or Toronto and Buffalo would be about as easy as dividing Ft. Worth from Dallas, or Laredo, TX from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
Virtually no one living in these communities actually wants that. Hell, Canada has its fair share of Trumpies while America has a healthy chunk of New England / Midwestern Polite People. It wouldn’t even be a clean split. You’d need to do some kind of Iraq Civil War Sunni / Shia militant purging to get to where you’re trying to go.
You would have more luck annexing US territory down to 47th parallel than to cut off trade with US border towns.
Let’s do that. The annex thing.