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On 2018-07-17, Dave Garland <dave.g...@wizinfo.com> wrote:
> On 7/16/2018 10:32 PM, Quadibloc wrote:
>> On Sunday, July 15, 2018 at 9:01:06 AM UTC-6, JimP wrote:
>>> On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 00:57:11 -0400, J. Clarke
>>> <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> I hate to break it to you, but you don't have anything Russia wants
>>>> either.
>> 
>>> Ice free ports ?
>> 
>> Iran has those. Canada is in a similar climactic situation to Russia, and even
>> if we do have some year-round ice-free ports, for obvious reasons Cuba would be
>> just as good for them.
>> 
>> Still, although there is no direct *land* connection to the Rodina, Canada is
>> big enough that I guess Russia could put their factories and infrastructure
>> within it, so that they could project their naval power _from_ Canada rather
>> than from Russia when its ports are frozen in.
>> 
> Russia is big enough so they've got plenty of places to put factories 
> and infrastructure (they have plenty of factories that were abandoned 
> with the fall of the USSR). They have no reason to want to take over 
> Canada.
>
> The only country that's a threat to Canada is the United States. And 
> US pressure won't be military, it'll be economic.

The US's biggest threat to the world is if it goes bankrupt, with the vast amount
of assets in the US being owned  by foreigners.

Go back in history, to when the byzantines exhausted their assets in trying
to recreate the Roman Empire, then just collapsed when the Arabs arrived. The Sassanians too.



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