Canada

"We protect Canada, but it’s not fair."

The idea that any military attack on Canada is most likely to come from directly across the southern border is not a new one. It's one of the main reasons we need an army at all. Many years ago I mentioned this theory to some people in the military and was slightly surprised that they all took it seriously and said yeah, we do have plans for that possibility of course. I don't know to what extent they were serious about it then or whether they've all gone soft and forgotten about it in the decades that have since passed, but unlikely as we thought it that an invasion would come from the USA it's even more unlikely that it'd come from anywhere else.

Oh lovely. More threats of war.

I am confused by this article.

The headline says they want to change the borders, but I didn't see any details in the article about redrawing the border. They say they're interested in doing so, but there aren't any details. They say that Trump wants control of the Keystone XL pipeline, but the details they give simply say that he wants it built. It's like they shoved all the Canada-US relations stuff into one article, but didn't bother editing it or making it coherent.

On another note, Trump himself is confused:

"We protect Canada, but it’s not fair. It’s not fair that they’re not paying their way, and if they had to pay their way they couldn’t exist,” he told reporters.

Uh, no, Canada has protected our northern border. If we'd had to protect that on our own, we'd be a much more closed, paranoid and militaristic place. [Isn't that a scary thought!]

The USA has had dreams of this forever.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red

Not to fear, we also made similar plans. (Should have done it when we had the chance)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Scheme_No._1

Defence Scheme No. 1 was a war plan created by Canadian Director of Military Operations and Intelligence Lieutenant Colonel James "Buster" Sutherland Brown, for a Canadian pre-emptive attack against the United States in the (hypothetical) case of a conflict between the United States and the British Empire.

He barfs out these demented ramblings that get slurped up by corporate news sewers and now it's in the headlines like it was ever anything more than a misfiring syphilitic group of neurons in front of a microphone.

Agh. Paywall.

Redraw the boarders? Like what they did with golf of Mexico? Because no way Canada will agree on this.