Canada should invade

The plan relied on ships out of Boston blockading Halifax and stopping British troops from reinforcing the Canadians. According to the plan, the British would be able to muster 2. Famous aviator and suspected Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh flew reconnaissance missions over Canadian airspace and recommended that chemical weapons be used.

Today, these two war plans are historical footnotes, amusing anecdotes about a conflict that never happened and almost certainly never will. Books How Canada planned to invade the U. War Plan Red by Kevin Lippert. Joseph Communications uses cookies for personalization, to customize its online advertisements, and for other purposes.

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Horoscopes Daily horoscope for November 14, Operation first wave — liberate the United States of Canada. Reporting for duty. This spoof, or variations of it, have increasingly been playing out on the popular short-video sharing app TikTok as the U.

The result is a viral phenomenon in which Canadians assure their American neighbours that a cavalry — made up of armoured moose, Canada geese and confusing road pylons — is coming to save them from political life in the United States. In , the meme mostly took on the character of American democrats making jokes about running, biking or driving to Canada, upon the election of Donald Trump.

Literat goes through thousands of videos associated with political hashtags in an effort to gain insights into the political messages Generation Z sends over TikTok. Not always the case, though. Of course, that was before Wilson himself requested a declaration of war in April Even at that time, there were people convinced that there was no way the US would send ground forces to Europe.

Given the woeful state of preparedness for war against a Great Power in , it is perhaps unsurprising that after WWI that both Army and Navy staffs began making up for lost time.

More specifically in the case of the UK, there was also something of a post-WWI naval rivalry between the two countries in addition to the aforementioned trade matters.