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Richard
To me that is not a way to compare.
The United States has 54 allies and the majority of those do not have the military power to protect thier own borders.
How much would Canada be spending on thier military if the United States was taken out of the picture,we do not have the luxury of depending on others for our National security and protection.
The exact same.
Before the US was a significant military power, no nation, save and except one, ever invaded Canada. The one, was the United States.
Canada has nuclear capability [[we supply the US nuclear material) and is the #21 power in the world militarily as it is, today.
But our mobilization capability is just fine; see WW2, where Canada got in 2 years before the US. By the time the war ended Canada has 95000 sailors and over 300 warships; remember that this was 1945.
We also started from only 6 vessels, we have a lot more today.
Between that and deterrence, Canada has little to worry about from would-be rivals.
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As to the 54 allies; France and the UK both have their own nuclear weapons, as do several others, they don't need US military protection.
Further, no one is attacking all 54 allies at the same time. You don't need a military to deal with a non-existent situation.
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So to say Russia spends less or China spends less is not a comparison.
Sure it is; but if you can come up with a better, logical criteria, feel free to share with the group.
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Lets be honest here,if Russia or China decided to get aggressive towards,Canada,Holland,France,Poland,Estonia and 50 others who is going to stop them but the United States?
China and Russia only have the option of nuking Canada.
Neither have the logistical capability to take and hold Canada.
They don't have the requisite assets or personnel to spread over the second largest country on the planet; and keep their own populations in check.
PS, you might have missed that Canada, The Netherlands, Estonia and France are all in NATO; we can defend each other. The Russians are a land-based threat in Europe, but not beyond the Balkans and Ukraine. They don't have the ability to take and hold Poland, never mind anywhere west of that.
The Chinese are not about to invade either.
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Russia and China would never have the balls to attack the United States,they may have the population advantages but they cannot match our standing military or the amount of guns on the streets that they would also have to face.
LOL, such drivel.
The Russians and the Chinese aren't going to attack anyway, and if they did, they'd nuke and your gun would be irrelevant, your home would be erased and the land irradiated.
Which is the same thing the U.S. would do to Russia/China.
As to a power to power stand up, excluding nuclear, the US is much stronger than either China or Russia, which makes my point. You could be 1/2 as strong and that wouldn't change a thing.
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Actually if Russia or China were to go to war with the United States,strategy wise they would take Canada or Mexico first because they need a base of operations verse shipping every thing 5000 miles.
Nobody likes Mexico so it would be Canada,because it has ports,resources,lots of people scared of guns and they could cross the river and enter the United States easy enough.
LMAO; back to geography class for you.
Russia taking Canada, presumably not going through Alaska; would require going directly over the arctic with a supply line; not remotely feasible for a full-scale invasion, that would be a suicide mission.
The alternative, would be the Pacific front, while somehow not bothering the U.S......and even that would be a nightmare; though theoretically feasible.
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Oh and what River are the Russians crossing to get into the US from Canada?
I suppose if they went all the way to the bottom of Ontario to cross, the could go over or under the Detroit River or the Niagara.....but that would be insane when there are thousands of miles of undefended land border against Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota.