CanadaEhBuddy
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I love my country, and got a kick out of of watching the debate the other night, you poor bastards
Sep 28, 2016 3:45 AM
CanadaEhBuddy
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I love my country, and got a kick out of of watching the debate the other night, you poor bastards
candar
Relevant once again
Grevling89
Passive aggressive is best aggressive
BrytnieBrokeIt
You mean besides the fact that they are allowing a mass genocide of a bunch of innocent dogs?
kwkspectre
Most aggressive act? How about storming the beach at Normandy and driving back the defending Nazi army?
Haydzor
Well, the scale of the map doesn't help, this shows hundreds of kilometers, where it only takes hundreds of metres to make an encroachment.
NoLicense
AHEM.
daneshpastry
Sorry.
RobQuinn
In mother Russia, "Not Russia" is still kinda sorta Russia.
thomkemp
I've been practicing my accent and speech patterns. I'm going to blend in perfectly in Canada.
andr00ster
Belarus is also "not Russia" (just in case they get any ideas.)
quadralol
And in doing this, my country embarassed itself by forgetting Kaliningrad Oblast.
svon1
not a Canadian but eh
...sorry i guess
Phaseronfry1
Canada was inI world war 2
notitnoti
Oh, Canada ...
KiyrantiTol
Our home and native land...
FluffySalamandr
It happens you know. Kind of like when I accidentally entered OP's mom. Just so big that it's easy to slip in.
imherefortheplot
Fucking Savage
RagingSnorlax
What happened in 1812????????
Monkeybone5581
World War 0
boobcat
pity their understanding of demographic and historical geography is terrible
highoverlordxenu
Found the Russian.
boobcat
nope, you found the Historian
Ashboomstick
I'm going to go ahead and apologize to Canada for when we declare war on them next year.
Kijips
Thanks
aFactIsAFact
Least we forget that Crimea voted 95% to join Russia after Ukraine stripped rights of Russian speakers. Which is the majority of Crimeans
ApexAquilas
Source pls
ApexAquilas
Lol I appended that source request to the wrong comment
HeThrustsHisFistsAgainstthePostsandStillInsistsHeSeesYourMom
And Russia annexing Crimea after the new ukraine government pledged to move closer to NATO, effectively bringing a threat to russian securit
HeThrustsHisFistsAgainstthePostsandStillInsistsHeSeesYourMom
-y directly on the border with Russia
Zebhyr
Do you honestly believe that voting wasn't rigged?
aFactIsAFact
So it makes sense to me that its such a high number
aFactIsAFact
Majority of Crimea s ethnic Russians. Ukraine passed a law stripping language rights of Russian speakers. Majority of Crimeans vote to leave
IvnWng
As a non american who sucks at geography, and dint watch the debate, can someone pls explain this post to me?
Durango
A part of Ukraine (Crimea) was the center of conflict between Ukraine and Russia. A large part of the people in crimea is pro-russian and1/?
Durango
want more autonomy and/or being closer to Russia, as they asked twice in referendum (1991 and 1994), 'cause historically they have been 2/?
Durango
Russians for a while. BUT, Russia took that for granted and sent troops help pro-russian folks more or less "by accident" (Read : "They 3/?
Durango
were there and we send them, but that's totally not a violation of Ukrain, Sovereignty, I swear". Big diplomatic and military shit and ensue
bigmacsasquatch
But Canada was still Britain until, like 1860-something.
s0shadow
that's because the british were politely asked to leave
DavidBrooker
Canada became a country in 1867, but it didn't become a state until 1931.
crankyoldgeezer
Britain has fought with nearly all nations on earth except Bolivia and a few others.
crankyoldgeezer
Correction: GB fought as allies with Chile in the war of the pacific against Peru & Bolivia. I guess Mongolia is still safe.
davepermen
Did they ever fight with us, the swiss? If not, should we, for once?
quadralol
I can't Bolivia just said this.
Aelinsaar
...And that's probably because they got lost finding it.
Akalazoo
There's still time.
crankyoldgeezer
That is the most British of responses! +1
imjusthereforthemoneynotyourbs
I believe formally 1980.
CanadaEhBuddy
That's when we brought the Constitution home, we became separate dominion in 1867
DavidBrooker
A Dominion within the British Empire. Canada gained statehood in 1931, which is the critical date here for independent foreign relations.
imjusthereforthemoneynotyourbs
Ahh, TIL.
KingOfDup
With Queeny as the head of state of the UK & Canada, amongst others, are we not technically the same country?- in the loosest possible way
DavidBrooker
Undid the downvote, because its a solid question. Commonwealth Realms are distinct states, but they are not 'foreign' to each other. 1/2
DavidBrooker
So, for instance, they exchange high commissioners instead of ambassadors - an ambassador represents the head of state (the queen), 2/3
CanadaEhBuddy
We are a member of a Commonwealth which we could hold a referendum to leave, we are voluntary member
RealScienceMan
The queen is the head of state of a lot of things until she tries to do something with that title.
KingOfDup
That's beside the point really
SniperFrog
What...what happened in 1812?
Cystman
The War of 1812.
Amythyst
Napoleon invaded Russia.
TheArkhamAsylumAccountsPayableClerk
Speaks volumes to the American education system... Only talking about times the US wins...
Mackdi
In murica only victory matters. No participation trophies. USA education is just brainwashing for slave duties.
YeahLinguisticsBitch
To be fair, it wasn't really "Canada" until 1867.
ChzbrgrEddie
American here and learned about the War of 1812 in every US History course I took. Chill.
SuicideByAccountant
To be fair, he might not be American
HEXADECIMAL
He is right tho, I didn't even know we lost...
nelshai
(2) The main losers were the Indians who were basically used as pawns by both sides and gained absolutely nothing of value.
TestPattern
It was more of a draw, really
nelshai
Hard to say who 'lost'. Nobody won but both sides achieved strategic goals. UK stopped press-gang, US humiliated and Canada wasn't annexed.
datredpanda
And the US had far less Natives to worry about, killing is hard work yunno
nelshai
Yeah, my second comment covered how the Indians were the only real losers.
CanadaEhBuddy
The white house got burnt by Canadian/British soldier's
crankyoldgeezer
The west Edmonton mall has more submarines than the Canadian Navy so it's a bit silly to taunt your overly armed neighbor who has your back
balsamicninja
Canada has 4 submarines
CanadaEhBuddy
False west Ed has 0 subs now
crankyoldgeezer
If West Ed mall loses their sea lions it will kill about half the fire power of the Canadian Navy. :-P
AgolfHiller
Do remember your second largest ship lost to a Canadian lighthouse