Re:The End of Industrial Society
by tablespoon on Sunday May 08, 2022 @08:09PM
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Even so, I think Mexico would be a far more logical first target in that scenario than Canada, especially if the Canadians took pains not to annoy the new leaders.
Climate change makes Canada much more useful than Mexico. The United States has enough arid desert already.
Re:The End of Industrial Society
by tablespoon on Monday May 09, 2022 @09:31AM
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> Climate change makes Canada much more useful than Mexico. The United States has enough arid desert already.
Yeah, but that's moving the goalposts. I was only commenting on suitability as a target for "a war to fuel the nationalist fire." There are already hooks for that w.r.t. Mexico, but they'd have to be created out of whole cloth for Canada.
When a place is a void in the public’s mind, that’s the ideal target to fill it with nationalist fury. The people of Belgrade didn’t think very often about Bosnia in 1980; thirteen years later their leaders were running a genocide to cleanse Bosnia of the elements that supposedly threatened Serbian unity.