• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    We’re pleasantly familiar feeling and stay out of the way, so there’s no reason to.

    I think I’d go farther and say you’re pretty good friends; we have plenty of projects going together, we’ve got a giant waterfall we do a pretty good job sharing, etc.

    Hopefully you know that “your country only exists at my pleasure” is not a compliment.

    Wasn’t really designed to be; it’s more meant to chastise other imperial superpowers throughout history. If you went back through history and took the dominant superpower of any given era and plunked their leadership down in 1950’s Washington DC, how many of them form close economic ties and a mutual defense pact, and how many of them march on Ottawa?

    If I read our treaties correctly, the official attitude of the United States is more like “Canada shall cease to exist over our dead bodies.”

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 days ago

      It’s a bit of an unfair comparison. WWII had just ended and the world was adjusting to the invention of nuclear weapons. The British stopped invading places too, and that was their whole thing. Also, don’t forget, before WWII you did try to annex us.

      To date you’ve chosen to sphere us instead, but it’s not because you’re all just nice guys.