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Old 01-24-2012, 02:08 AM
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Yes. Molest the Mexicans until they surrender. With your eyes.
What's the age of consent in Mexico? If Archer were here we'd know. And knowing is half the battle!
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What's the age of consent in Mexico? If Archer were here we'd know. And knowing is half the battle!
And Mexicans are poorly educated, so they've already lost half.
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It would be a massacre. The Canadian Air Force is so far superior. The Navy of Canada is also decades ahead of Mexico.

And for all of you mAking fun of the French make-up of Canada, remember that France beat the crap out of Mexico and owned that pathetic country. France got bored and left.
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Mexicans outnumber Canadians big time. They could all grab rifles and storm ontario and took out Canada's hearbeat. Rape and slaughter all the cities. Canadians we know are scared of guns, so they'll make easy victims.

Once ontario is taken out - the center of canada's universe - the rest is easy. But there's a FARR easier way. Just jump the border and breed and take over the coutnry. They're doing pretty well with that over here
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Mexicans outnumber Canadians big time. They could all grab rifles and storm ontario and took out Canada's hearbeat. Rape and slaughter all the cities. Canadians we know are scared of guns, so they'll make easy victims.

Once ontario is taken out - the center of canada's universe - the rest is easy. But there's a FARR easier way. Just jump the border and breed and take over the coutnry. They're doing pretty well with that over here
How do you propose they get there? Remember, Mexicans like blacks can't swim.
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More seriously I looked stuff up on wikipedia:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Navy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Air_Force

The Mexican air force is a joke. Even with our F-18 Hornets we'd have air superiority. The problem would be deployment: We'd have to use British Airbases from the Caribbean or make a deal with a nearby Country to park the fighters for sorties, or steal an airbase from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozumel

I think the idea of capturing Baja isn't a bad one per se, but the Canadian military just isn't that big. I'm not even sure Canada has enough ships to resupply. We'd have to get a port and I'm guessing Tijuana is a proper port, but I'm not sure. We'd then have to steal the local air port, secure it and then protect it while expanding it so big planes could land there.

Getting the invasion fleet wouldn't be hard. Just use our subs to blow up all of their stupid patrol boats, which are 2/3s of their navy. Sink a few of their frigates and missile ships and they'd be too afraid to use them again.

Also, we would definitely use a nuke. A nuke. Once. Then we'd win. I remember hearing about silos hidden in ontario that have nukes. Not sure if it's true or not, but some do think Canada has secret nukes.

I doubt Mexico would be able to sneak any boats anywhere near Canada with out being destroyed by the RCAF. They'd have to do something super sneaky and not caught by satellites, like launching an invasion fleet that sails through the middle of the Pacific and then circles back to invade Prince Rupert. From there'd they could get on the rail lines and really **** things up.
Canada probably doesn't have secret nukes. Instead, we have various scatter "research" nuclear reactors that are capable of making enough fissile material for a bomb, in realistically a day or so. Also, as I've said multiple times, our CanDu reactors are basically breeder reactors, that can also make enough fissile material for a bomb in about a day or so.

We have several sattelite launching platforms, that, conveniently, double as ballistic missile launching platforms, also scattered (the one I'm thinking of is in Churchill, good luck getting to Churchill Mexico).

So, what I'm saying is, we probably don't have a bomb now, but assuming there was a 2 - 3 day sabre rattling up to our war, that would give us time to get a dozen or so ICBMs in place.

ETA here's our 10 nuclear reactors http://www.nucleartourist.com/world/canada.htm
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Could you imagine if the NDP base found out we had secret hidden nukes? Holy moly. They'd demand that we get rid of them immediately. Probably by dropping them on Alberta.
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Canadian GDP 1.5 Trillion, Mexican GDP 1 Trillion.

Our economic capacity is greater, in a non nuclear confrontation that ends up making all the difference.
Actually I think capacity to obtain credit is even more important. Which means the creditors determine the outcome of the war.
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Wait 10 - 20 years, Britain said the same thing about 150 years ago.
It'll be more than 10-20 years. It would take that long to build the rest of the world to the strength of the US military right now. The US has 11 aircraft carriers, the rest of the world in total has 8. The US spends more on the military than the rest of the top 15 or so combined. There is just a huge gulf between the US capabilities and the rest of the world's capabilities, particularly if the rest of the world were suddenly cutoff from receiving American military assistance.

And I would disagree about Britain saying the same. France was always a rival with Britain for power, at times so was Spain.

In a non-nuclear defensive war where the US wasn't worried about offending people by killing civilians, the US would win against any group of countries in a rout, and it will likely stay that way for the next 3-5 decades.
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It'll be more than 10-20 years. It would take that long to build the rest of the world to the strength of the US military right now. The US has 11 aircraft carriers, the rest of the world in total has 8. The US spends more on the military than the rest of the top 15 or so combined. There is just a huge gulf between the US capabilities and the rest of the world's capabilities, particularly if the rest of the world were suddenly cutoff from receiving American military assistance.
Yeah but in 10-20 years the repo men will come and take all that stuff away. Unless we invade them all first.
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