 | The Fall of the United States| Politics Discuss The Fall of the United States in the Current forums; The Americans are not going to invade us. Hell, we'd invite 'em in anyway.
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01-13-2006, 09:30 PM
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#46 | | Senior Member
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The Americans are not going to invade us. Hell, we'd invite 'em in anyway.
| Imagine if they attacked a 3:00 in the morning,
My reaction, What there attacking? But its last call, well **** they can have Quebec those pricks wanna leave anyway.
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01-13-2006, 09:35 PM
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#47 | | He who does not skim
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Country: | Let's just say for the sake of argument that they did invade. It'd be over within a week. | |
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01-13-2006, 09:45 PM
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Country: | No way man they'd get mixed up delayed amongst the confused Maritimers looking for the Timmy's 
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01-13-2006, 10:07 PM
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#49 | | Minister of Whoopass
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well sh*t they can have Quebec those pricks wanna leave anyway.
| U ****in keep it, we dont want that **** on OUR hands...
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01-13-2006, 10:16 PM
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#50 | | He who does not skim
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Country: | Before they agreed to join Confederation to become a part of Canada in 1949, Newfoundland (not including Labrador) had been thinking of asking the US government to accept them into the United States. Imagine that. | |
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01-13-2006, 11:28 PM
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Country: | This is a serious question and in no way sarcastic. How valuable is the Arctic for trading and transportation? Isn't it frozen for a significant part of the year?
Nonskimmer, you rock my life, seriously. You're so goddamn funny.
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01-13-2006, 11:36 PM
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#52 | | He who does not skim
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Originally Posted by Delusional This is a serious question and in no way sarcastic. How valuable is the Arctic for trading and transportation? Isn't it frozen for a significant part of the year? | With the whole global warming phenomenon, and the Gulf Stream moving steadily northward, huge sections of the Arctic that were always considered impassible are gradually opening up. This will eventually mean large open expanses of water through which shipping will be able to pass, unencumbered by the huge ice flows that presently block most of the passages. It'll mean a much easier route than say the Panama Canal. It'll be pretty important in years to come I think. | |
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01-13-2006, 11:43 PM
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Country: | Interesting, something may actually be viewed as a benefit of our environmental slaughter. As the area's importance increases, will Canada do anything different to patrole it better? Or does the nation even have the ability to do so?
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01-13-2006, 11:56 PM
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#54 | | He who does not skim
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Country: | Currently we don't. That's the problem we face. If we really value our Arctic sovereignty that much, we had better pull our collective heads out of our asses soon or we'll lose it pure and simple. It's inevitable, and it's already begun. The Canadian government has a habit of ignoring the inevitable at times. | |
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01-14-2006, 12:04 AM
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Country: | All governments have a habit of ignoring the inevitable at times, I think. Perhaps its consciously...
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01-14-2006, 02:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Delusional Interesting, something may actually be viewed as a benefit of our environmental slaughter. As the area's importance increases, will Canada do anything different to patrole it better? Or does the nation even have the ability to do so? | Yeah except if global warming actually opens up the area well enough the results are unpredictable and I dont see anything positve coming out of it, at least not enviromentally.
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01-14-2006, 10:36 AM
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#57 | | the old Sage
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Country: | I'm missing something here, what part of the artic are u folk chatting about ?
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01-14-2006, 10:52 AM
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Country: | Well of course the benefit is not an environmental one. That would be quite the oxymoron. "Scientists say that global warming has actually benefited the environment in the Arctic region." As NS says, the benefit will be for trade and transportation. Another benefit for society, and nature be damned! Personally, I don't think nature's something to mess around with, but rather something to be quite feared.
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01-14-2006, 11:08 AM
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#59 | | the old Sage
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Country: | who says there is global warming ? you know of course the earth has gone through so many changes over the centuries, I've heard back in the 60's there was a global warming then, and then followed up by a cold-ice age trend and then back to this. The world is ever changing, do not be deceived in listening to these experten giving long range forecasts. | |
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01-14-2006, 11:08 AM
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Country:  | America can't fall it's not an empire. Empires collapsed in history by losing the physical gains of the Empire itself, by losing the money it's colonies gave it. The U.S is all homegrown and that cannot be lost unless the world defeats it in open conflict and rips the U.S to pieces. The U.S is a country not an Empire, it has economic and diplomatic inlfuence they are things it cannot lose.
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