And do what with them?The Bully south of the Border and the Republican Party. We look/are weak without them. Why doesn't Canada have Nukes?
Nukes = strength?Project strength. Less likely to get bullied. Trudeau can tell Trumpty Dumpty to go fuck himself that will carry more weight.
Despite it's name, you DO realize that island is ours, right?I would say: Get a few nukes as insurance.
Make peace with Denmark over Hans Island and start a Joint Venture with Denmark (Niels Bohr Institute) to develop a dozen small nukes. Enough to take out New York and Washington.
I am with you on that, maybe enough nukes to take out a Southern State as well for good measure -lolI would say: Get a few nukes as insurance.
Make peace with Denmark over Hans Island and start a Joint Venture with Denmark (Niels Bohr Institute) to develop a dozen small nukes. Enough to take out New York and Washington.
Enough to get some respect. Se how Trump talks about Canada compared to North Korea.I am with you on that, maybe enough nukes to take out a Southern State as well for good measure -lol
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Do you really think Canada will accept anything less than complete victory in something called the Beer War?I would say: Get a few nukes as insurance.
Make peace with Denmark over Hans Island and start a Joint Venture with Denmark (Niels Bohr Institute) to develop a dozen small nukes. Enough to take out New York and Washington.
I think we should take out the moon first to show the world that we are nuts.I would say: Get a few nukes as insurance.
Make peace with Denmark over Hans Island and start a Joint Venture with Denmark (Niels Bohr Institute) to develop a dozen small nukes. Enough to take out New York and Washington.
Dolgert: Here's why Canada should get nuclear weapons
Please consider inaugurating a nuclear armament program. Please begin this process now.
I never imagined writing something like this. American by birth, but now also a Canadian citizen, I’ve always regarded the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a stain on my birth nation’s honour. But the time has come to face reality, and the foreign minister’s June speech reasserting Canadian sovereignty is only the beginning of the reckoning.
We are in many ways living through a replay of the 1930s: a world struggling in the wake of economic cataclysm, fascists rising across Europe and an authoritarian in power (this time in the United States) cultivates support from the radical right.
Tyranny is on the march, and there is no clear end-point in sight. We can no longer assume that our country’s safety is assured, and even proposals for anti-missile defence don’t go far enough because they assume a democratic U.S. – the very thing that is now in question.
Alarmist? Maybe. But the consequences of a misstep now — the 21st-century equivalent of 1933, the year of Hitler’s ascendance — are dire, and we can’t regain later the time that we lose now. Nuclear programs take time to initiate, and in order to be prepared for our version of 1939 (the start of the Second World War), we cannot allow these to be “the locust years,” as Winston Churchill described the time wasted between 1933 and 1939.
So this is 1933. Start the countdown.
America is on a quest to demonize Muslims, round up Mexican immigrants, restrict trade, break up NATO and help Vladimir Putin divvy up the world. If you want to understand Donald Trump’s foreign policy, think “Mafia Protection Racket.” Just change the little shop-owners, forced to pay up, into little nations across the globe.
Canada is a small shopkeeper not so well-positioned to resist this new racket.
To understand what it’s like being beside a bully in today’s world, look at Ukraine. Perhaps the greatest mistake that country made after the breakup of the USSR was to get rid of its nuclear weapons. The consequences? Russia seizes Crimea and effectively invades eastern Ukraine by arming Russian secessionists there. This could also happen to Latvia and the Baltic states.
Could it happen here? For more than a century, Canadian policy could assume that, while the U.S. might be an 800-lbs gorilla on our doorstep, at least the gorilla played by the rules. But Trump has said the old rules won’t apply, and his selection of white nationalists and conspiracy theorists to powerful roles in his administration indicates he is not kidding.
I think you’re being facetious as it serves no purpose given our strategic and historic alliance with the US, particularly in NORAD. Just as the US nuking Toronto because they think our softwood lumber is too cheap would be idiotic, so would us nuking any major US city except maybe Miami because their cheese is too cheap. Fallout would unquestionably harm us, just as fallout would harm them.The Bully south of the Border and the Republican Party. We look/are weak without them. Why doesn't Canada have Nukes?
Let us start buying S400 systems from RussiaWe need to get Nukes ASAP. I wish we had politicians with Balls.
I don't know if you are Canadian, but I don't like being bullied around. We don't have politicians with balls to get it done covertly.
Really, Canada with nukes is a really bad idea. It doesn't take balls to get them, it takes a complete lack of brains. When I first saw this thread I thought you may have been joking. Unfortunately, you seem to be serious.We need to get Nukes ASAP. I wish we had politicians with Balls.
I don't know if you are Canadian, but I don't like being bullied around. We don't have politicians with balls to get it done covertly.