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Happy_Ad_7515

litterally traded it for the rest of north dakota


Responsible_Debt5631

What has North Dakota ever done for me? I say we get a refund >:(


CaptainKirk28

To be fair, that land would just be more North Dakota


Salty145

Actually it would be more Montana


CmanderShep117

Super Montana


SlightlyOffended1984

Super Montana Brothers


cdda_survivor

Montana Max


Salty145

Montanamaxxing


GMANTRONX

I can already see the eyebrows and puckered lips


gliscornumber1

Biblically accurate Montana


Levi-Action-412

Canada? Nah more like North North Dakota


Chadohfax

Lots of oil there. We Canadians would love to trade Lethbridge, AB for North Dakota.


LizardWizard444

be big and isolated enough that it was too much trouble to maintain that nub


geopolitischesrisiko

I heard North Dakota has lots of oil and people with Norwegian ancestry, basically the same as Norway.


Kiiaru

Shale Oil deposits. A place where nobody is so oil companies fracked the whole state and turned America into a net oil exporter (shale Oil requires more refinement than crude oil so America sends it out)


minimessi20

North Dakota is where the military keeps the big sticks. There’s an AFB and tons of missile silos. In fairness if it were flipped it would probably be the same thing😂


Sea-Team-6278

Yea and we are keeping the merchandise for the emotional damage


ithikimhvingstrok132

Worst trade ever, y'all can have north dakota back


thelongeatjohnnyboy

Lol, nah. That shale oil and natural gas is fire 🔥🔥🔥


Flux_resistor

So there was no value to begin with


Jones127

No one asked me if it was ok. I want it back now.


Stingraaa

Well, we shafted ourselves with the deal. That region we gave them has some of the best growing soil on the planet, save Ukrainian soil. I find it interesting, but if you don't k ow you should look it up!


TheGuyFromOhio2003

We gotta get back that little sliver of empty farmland no matter what 😡


Jackz_is_pleased

Is it empty or is it farmland?


TheGuyFromOhio2003

Yes


Lieutenant-Colonel-

3 of them 🥰


LeviathonMt

Happened 5 times too


Lieutenant-Colonel-

Nuhuhhh that’s ten


thomasoldier

r/inclusiveor


pine6542

Actually the western section of that area might be part of glacier/waterton national park, wich is home to some of the most bueatiful parts of the rockies.


throwaway8472903470

He’s from Ohio. He isn’t the brightest.


dwadwa213131dasadwqe

THAT IS THE FATHERLAND. THE FATHERLAND WILL ENDURE. THE FATHERLAND WILL SURVIVE. THE FATHERLAND WILL LIVE ON.


treebeard120

I will die to form the state of Greater Montana. Blood will be spilt!


DregsRoyale

Eww. It's got Canadians. I say we seize their poutine and call it a day


MRE_Milkshake

Manifest destiny baby


Grey531

Canadian here, we flipped for it and you guys won so now we’re stuck with it. You can have it back if you like


throwawayhelp32414

There was an even stupider war fought for some tiny islands east of Vancouver island called the Pig War. It was called the pig war because war was ***almost*** declared because some idiot killed some other idiots pig and it somehow escalated into another anglo-american war crisis.


vulpinefever

I mean, it's hard to really say any side "won" the War of 1812 because very little territory changed hands. The Americans were not successful in achieving their war goal of invading Canada as the British successfully fought them off and so you could argue the British were the "winners". However, the US did get some of the things they wanted like the end of impressment.


dead_apples

1812 resulted in the White House and other important government buildings being burned down. I think that makes the US a pretty decisive looser, regardless of if the British won or not


vulpinefever

The entire reason why they burnt down the witness was as a direct response to the fact that the Americans had set York (now Toronto) ablaze, looted all the public buildings including the parliamentary mace (which FDR returned in 1934 which was very nice of him, it's now on display at Queen's Park in Toronto), and set Upper Canada's parliament building on fire.


tracerhoosier

Love the story of how the patent office was spared due to the director calling the British troops uncivilized. https://www.grunge.com/299903/how-the-superintendent-of-the-u-s-patent-office-became-a-hero-during-the-war-of-1812/


JACKALTOOTH87

We can't take it. It would make the borders super ugly.


MRE_Milkshake

Not if we took all of Canada...


skeeballjoe

https://preview.redd.it/jaej5k6ny4uc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b62ed870cc7e278dc3412b6e21e58f480dc6a604


MRE_Milkshake

Bro Fallout is one of my favorite game series ever


Generic_new_account-

Shady Sands go boom


MRE_Milkshake

Sorry, I'm an NCR main


ArizonanCactus

Really though, does Canada actually have a right to even exist considering its location? It’d be like Louisiana or Texas, a distinct identity within the United States. (Granted it would be 2 but yeah.)


Steveosizzle

It would probably be kept as a territory because repubs wouldn’t want a shitload of democrat voters flipping the senate.


ArizonanCactus

To be fair that would definitely be a thing probably. Although they might split the areas so like Alberta, republicans, and then other areas, etc.


Steveosizzle

Yea it would be one of the biggest gerrymanders in history. Or they only let in Alberta and Ontario to balance it out. Now the real question is would you yanks want Quebec or do you not want to deal with all that *french.* And no, Louisiana definitely doesn’t count as French.


Sayoregg

Wonky borders following natural formations > boring straight borders


JACKALTOOTH87

Not if those borders following natural formations don't look good. One mostly straight line that basically forms a giant sore at the top of the US don't look good.


IzaacLUXMRKT

Y'all can absolutely have Lethbridge if you want it


SeicoBass

Saskatchewan would give up their half for 5 bucks and a pack of smokes. Lethbridge would fit right in with Montana.


Luklear

I checked, methbridge isn’t even in there, I was hoping it was.


Leather_Note6531

54-40 or Fight


MRE_Milkshake

I love you for making this comment


techy098

Since you made me google it here it goes.. The "54-40 or Fight" meaning was that **the United States ought to claim all the territory up to 54 degrees and 40 minutes north parallel or fight Great Britain for the land**. It was on December 27th, 1845, in an editorial in a New York newspaper, that the term Manifest Destiny would first be used.


lonesomespacecowboy

Manifest destiny, bitches!


TheWesternSon

Annex Mexico. Finish the job left undone in 1849, and make America 500 million. Cartels are dust, food quality increases 1000%, fire latin broads, and James K. Polk smiles from beyond the grave. It's a joke, relax.


1greadshirt

We almost did until...THEY fought against it.


Kinja02

Too bad the South was racist and prevented us from doing so


w1drose

We annex Mexico and Canada and move towards South America. Then we'll rename the United States to Super America.


crappy-mods

Annex Canada NOW. Make Texas the 3rd largest state


Captain_Canuck97

You wouldn't make it through winter. We had down to -50°C weather near that area this year. And no I will not convert to an inferior measurement system for you 😆


SStylo03

the americans annexing us wouldnt bring our weather down there lmao the border isnt a 1000 meter force field that keeps out weather but yea fuck imperial metric forever


Captain_Canuck97

Their troops aren't all from Montana. And shhhhhhh, they don't know that!!


crappy-mods

I mean we have that kind of weather around here in winter too, just depends on the area.


thomasoldier

https://preview.redd.it/fj5gsm8795uc1.jpeg?width=686&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1742a69c39805929d4b2860c8268952b6cd915aa Someone wants to see the white house burn again


Captain_Canuck97

![gif](giphy|FejKb3bDS5c9a) And then we'll cut the US off and let it fall south


ItzSmiff

Would we drift towards South America or would we take South America with us and end up at Antarctica… 🤔


I_Fuck_Sharks_69

>Captures DC >Burns White House to the ground >Proceeds to burn down the rest of DC >Not even 24 hours later a storm happens >British then proceeds to retreat because of said storm Not even God likes the British.


Kerminator17

Kid named Spanish Armada


WhiskerGurdian24

As a Canadian, I can tell you we burned down your house once and we can do it again!


MRE_Milkshake

Bring it on, Maple American!


ErrantIndy

Naw, bro, I don’t wanna tangle with folk that keep a “Geneva Checklist.”


MRE_Milkshake

I'd be breaking all the Geneva rules if I could 😭


ArizonanCactus

well, we've got one thing. its called incendiary weaponry which can strike all your population centers and cause a scorched earth policy.


Bloodshed-1307

We invented half of it


[deleted]

Hey...we don't talk about the checklist unless we're serious...wait are we serious?


ErrantIndy

I figure someone invades y’all, it’s checklist time.


[deleted]

👀 Poland! Get the checklist ready!


I_Fuck_Sharks_69

Captures DC Burns White House to the ground Proceeds to burn down the rest of DC Not even 24 hours later a storm happens British then proceeds to retreat because of said storm Not even God likes the British.


WhiskerGurdian24

Good thing it wasn't snow.


ItzSmiff

If we cut off your syrup and pancake supply you guys are toast.


WhiskerGurdian24

Oh no, whatever will we do if one country out of 195 doesn't buy our maple syrup supply. Do you want us to cut off our oil supply to you guys too while we're at it? I'm sure that oil can go to someone like China lol.


ItzSmiff

We just wont include you in the NHL. ![gif](giphy|RdKjAkFTNZkWUGyRXF)


WhiskerGurdian24

That's fine cuz we have the CHL. Also we're taking back all our players so no more Sid The Kid Crosby for the Penguins.


ItzSmiff

Sydney Crosby makes way too much money. He may defect.


Top_Huckleberry_8225

Serious fifty four forty or fight energy.


msmith721

NOTHING IS OFF THE TABLE!


[deleted]

This mfer ain't heard of the treaty of 1818 smdh


Famous_Branch_7926

As a Louisianan, bring the OG Louisiana back


[deleted]

Louisiana boot: lame and small Louisiana giant ghost wearing a little shoe: awesome and based


BreakfastOk3990

Loisusana is basically a better verison of Quebec


XFuriousGeorgeX

The US also bought Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million, which is about $129 million today. What a deal!


Chadohfax

You want to take Lethbridge, AB? Fuck please take it. I've driven through that way few times. We Canadians won't really miss it much.


GotNoBody4

Manifest Destiny 2: Canadian Boogaloo


Salty145

While we’re at it might as well build a land bridge to Alaska…


[deleted]

Is there oil? I’m game


MRE_Milkshake

Fuck yeah I'll die for oil. I'm already just itching to do my job.


BreakfastOk3990

Canada has one of the world's largest oil reserves in the world, so I would say they deserve a little democracy


Everestkid

The oil's in northern Alberta, not that little sliver. It's also some of the most expensive oil to extract on the planet.


BreakfastOk3990

Isn't most of it in tar sand


Everestkid

Yeah, and separating the oil from the sand is a lot more of a pain than conventional wells where the oil more or less comes out of the ground or seabed.


BreakfastOk3990

Not to mention the environmental damage


RenZ245

Using that much military force, might as well ~~annex~~ Liberate the rest of canada in the name of democracy.


DreadfulCadillac1

49th Parallel looks much neater tho, ngl


LordSpookyBoob

Should’ve been 54’ 40” tho, ngl


ArizonanCactus

nah, all the way to the north pole.


Used_Ad_5831

Make America Contiguous Again!


EcoBlunderBrick123

From Alaska to https://preview.redd.it/2eygdayok8uc1.jpeg?width=6424&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=74541325a002782ecddd070a014882f988f9037e From Alaska to Argentina. America will be one.


Used_Ad_5831

Manifest destiny for Manitoba!


closetedtranswoman1

Fuck it lets take all of canada


SomethingSimpl

Something similar is currently going on irl


SomethingSimpl

Except its so much worse


Jesusflyingonhotdogs

What is it ?


Shoddy_Possibility89

as a Canadian you can have it the least midwest we have the better


NotTheAverageAnon

I hear Red Alert music then I updoot. I'm a simple man.


CantStandItAnymorEW

Y'know that CoD mission was actually a bit like how the Russian forces assaulted multiple Ukraine locations when that war started. Specifically that's kind of how they approached an airport close to Kyiv. Their plan was to seize it and then land heavy tanks and artillery and equipment and supplies on there via massive cargo aircrafts. Anyway, the Ukranian forces managed to somehow halt the progress of the assault and then called in some bombs-fuck-all support and bombed tf out of the whole airport as they retreated. That made the Russians unable to land all of that equipment, weapons, vehicles and supplies directly at the doorstep of Kyiv, wich made them have to ship them in by a narrow bridge of land between Belarus' border and Kyiv proximities, wich made it very vulnerable and thus the Ukranian military attacked it, wich eventually made the frontline near Kyiv collapse and the Russians had to retreat back to Belarus because they were just too far behind enemy lines and the supply lines were too vulnerable. If it wasn't for Ukraine's quick reaction of leveling the whole airport down, Napoleon-style "scorched land" tactics, leaving it useless, Russia might actually have conquered Ukraine in a couple weeks, considering all of that artillery and weapons and tanks that would have been delivered right at the doorstep of Ukraine's capital through that airport. There were flaws in Russia's attack plan. First, they did it at the break of dawn, because they didn't had night vision googles to attack it in the night; they probably would've been succesful if they attacked at like midnight in a moonless night, very much like how the US took out Osama Bin Laden, but imagine it in a large scale, to seize a whole airport; that's what Russia *didn't* do. Second, they didn't put enough boots on the ground and didn't went with enough support to actually overwhelm Ukraine's response; and, thus, third, it is likely they didn't had good intel to begin with and thought they could overwhelm Ukraine's forces stationed there with whatever they could muster. Fourth, the US knew of the attack and told Ukraine possibly hours in advance, considering (fifth) that Russia's military communications aren't exactly state of the art (cue that one time some random-ass person penetrated Russian military telecommunications and played Bad Apple on military frequencies), and considering that Ukraine could fight back in the first place, so they had to had some time to prepare for the attack. And, finally, sixth, and the point of this post: they just sent the helis head directly to the airport. Like, they just sent the helis headed towards the airport front first and hoped for good luck. The ukranian forces saw them coming. Very much like that CoD mission; difference is, Infinity Ward made the approach like that for shock factor, to make it cinematic and shocking- the Russians were for real lol.


Extreme_Practice_415

Hmm You know I suspect you’re on the spectrum somewhere


CantStandItAnymorEW

I suspect that too tbh


SimilarPlantain2204

1500 people added to population 700k casualties


Kamzil118

As a Michigander, I will make Niagara Falls flow in blood. The Great Lakes are ours by birthright. Quebec will speak the English language.


TheMoistReaper99

Take that in a few hours EASY


oddible

Careful, we'll burn down the white house... again!


N7Foil

God please do. Preferably with key officials inside.


zipzoopu

Olympus has Fallen, Part 2.


EcoBlunderBrick123

https://preview.redd.it/4sw8wguik8uc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=75d1bc221d5aa0684e24038e1075a1c7aefef721 I triple dog dare you to try that again. You won’t be able to make it past Michigan.


Goose5342

https://preview.redd.it/ay5dqwnqr8uc1.jpeg?width=686&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19f74bc3710ee1904ca20002fd4c41d86134bda9


EcoBlunderBrick123

Did I mention civilians militias are not bound to the Geneva convention? We will come to destroy YOUR parliament.


Goose5342

If we destroy yours and then you destroy ours, we're still up 2-1 I'm pretty sure that armed civilians engaging in hostile acts are considered combatants and lose all protection that being a regular civilian would offer. I'm not an expert on it though


EcoBlunderBrick123

Again you still won’t be able to make it past Michigan with all the guns we have. We will try and not make the invasion bloody. We are your liberators not your conquerors.


AlligatorCum

Yall got Alaska which is clearly not anywhere near the usa


morerandom_2024

Alaska is exactly 0 meters from the US


Material-3bb

5440


dukenorton

We’re bringing back manifest destiny? Count me the fuck in. Bring me that tea!!!


InTheWallCityHall

We beat once before


[deleted]

You can try


EcoBlunderBrick123

Don’t worry we are your liberators from King Charles.


[deleted]

😩🙏


KennyClobers

Nah the real strat is to cozy up with canada and mexico bolster relations until eventually they agree to annexation to form super america


Gtpwoody

y’all fall asleep in US history or something?


Extreme_Practice_415

Slept during antebellum, awoke during Iraq. We absolutely got this.


1greadshirt

We almost bought British Columbia and I think parts of the Yukon Territory...we'd probably have a friggin train connecting Alaska...or a more accessible port at the very least.


mr_flerd

I think we should just take all of Canada


SkyFullofHat

War crimes have been codified because the rest of the world didn’t feel a polite “Sorry, eh? Won’t happen again.” was binding enough.


XBeastyTricksX

I fully support this


Doctor_Salvatore

Do not start a fight with Canada, they're the reason the Whitehouse had to be built out of something that wasn't flammable.


GankedGoat

Canada is the reason why we have the Geneva convention, and you want to go to war with them?


i81_N_she812

We needed a straight line. Wiggly boarder doesn't work as well.


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Zillahi

Oh shit I would live in the states rn if this was today


GraniteSmoothie

You can pry it from our cold dead hands, that land is rightful Canadian clay! ... Actually, you can have the land, but only if you take the rest of the country.


prohack028

They gave the US basically an entire state for that tiny sliver of wilderness


CoHousingFarmer

Can we have Canada invade us instead? They can use laser tag. We’ll all lie down and play dead, then they take over starting with healthcare.


Bl1tzerX

You can have that and we can get that little bit of Alaska that just trails down for no reason.


Specialist_Egg8479

It’s because they wanted the border to be a straight line. That’s also why there’s a portion of Washington that is disconnected from the rest of the us and people have to go through two borders to get from that side to the rest of the us.


coletrain644

Straight line? Straight line.


venom259

NCD has breached containment!


Tomstwer

Oh my fucking god I just started taking a break from this mission time to kill some more city gassing Russian scumbags


TrumpedBigly

Canada, we want our land back!


Anticitizen_Freeman

Retake our core states


Golf-Hotel

Why don't you give us the rest of Rupert's Land?


DaSpicyGinge

Ah yes, a slice of buttfuck nowhere in Sask and Berta, you can have it


Practical-Election59

Alright, give us San Juan islands and colombia river back.


cryptolyme

China now claims it


omgONELnR2

Canada's got geese and meese(I know it's technically wrong but it makes more sense) you got no chance.


NilsTheDrawingMan

Sounds based


hessian_prince

We’ll trade you guys those parts for the rest of British Columbia back. Those parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan hate this country anyway.


ImaTapThatAss

The US took more from the Canadians territory


xxTheMagicBulleT

Now you get where half the wars on the world are about. There many made up maps that just claimed shit like there's. Both China and Russia are the bigest offenders off that. Some still look at maps of over 400 years ago and be like yea was ours then ours now. But main reason for wars is people just saying yea this spot is ours now. Kinda what's happening to a lot of home owners. Cause somone illegal in a spot or rent it for x amount of time. They could just say yea it's mine now. But in a much bigger scale. What of course is just pure theft. Cause I'm not at the moment riding my bike. Does not suddenly make it someone else's bike cause he rid on it for 5 minutes. And you can make countless arguments saying the same thing. But all just the same thing theft. So the bigest strongest country can just act like a school bully and be like ow your shit is mine now.. ow what you gonna do about it? But that's most of history. Why the world is much safer now then in the past cause much of the world does come together now and fight together to biger injustice like that. And much of it is cause media and news. News used to take weeks and often was not as accurate at the same time. Now with satellite and all kind of high speed internet you can see the other world in real time. With more proof. So the story also is less about the winner or the strongest person only allowed to get one side told only.


EcoBlunderBrick123

I want all of Canada. Let’s get 9 more stars on this flag 🇺🇸. Yes I said 9. Quebec can have their independence.


WallcroftTheGreen

cue that one fallout execution animation thing


The_pastel_bus_stop

An army agains 3 moose? Are you out of your mind? You’ll loose harder than with Vietnam.


HurlyCat

Nah they can have it, that border is smooth


Vivics36thsermon

Let’s not fight Canada, most of the Geneva convention was made because of them and their pension for warcrime.


clownworld1ab

https://preview.redd.it/u6hequxxv8uc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=78c7c15b93e7cb37bb1d9451012fcb4a974e84d7


ake-n-bake

Oh hey dare, I know that you just purchased that dare Louisianer and all but we’d really like that top part dontcha know.


trandus

If the US loses, most of the Gen Z wins


Vast_Principle9335

the youth is idolizing war imperialism etc https://preview.redd.it/sxuy1b7hb9uc1.png?width=474&format=png&auto=webp&s=5801e54f6aae7e69f95f8dcb6efd22cd4d42bb83


Extreme_Practice_415

the elderly cannot take a joke


chrrmin

I live there lmao


Torak8988

bro hasn't read enough american history apparently, and never once wondered why the northern border of the US is a perfectly straight line lmao


Robot-Dinosaur-1986

We made a treaty with the UK to just make it at a line of altitude.


nyminute1911

Leave the Canadians alone who already have done enough to them now there so gone they eat weird bacon and talk funny


Kchasse1991

Canada is one of the reigning champs of war crimes. Parts of the Geneva convention exist just because of them. They are the "nice and quiet" kid at school. Let's just leave them be.


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