What a surprise: to learn too late that the United States is not only a poor neighbor, but an untrustworthy ally of Canada. The US has become active antagonist to Canada. An enemy. And not for the first time.
I was surprised to learn (and we were never taught this in school) that President Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State, William Henry Seward, was determined to take Canada, one century and a half ago. Seward was a rabid expansionist. A true believer in America's "Manifest destiny."
It was Seward who negotiated the US purchase of the Danish West Indies in 1865. Today that's known as the US Virgin Islands.
It was Seward who bought Alaska from Russia two years later, in 1867.
It was Seward who tried to buy Greenland that same year (1867) from Denmark.
Seward wanted Greenland because (he said) that Canada, sandwiched between two large American states, would then inevitably become part of Canada. Canadians would have no other choice than to submit to US annexation.
It was in 1867 that the Province of Canada (what is now Ontario and Québec) and two British North American colonies (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia) united and became a sovereign nation. The year of Confederation (1867) is significant; it was not the result of coincidental timing.
Will Americans have a second civil war? Who really cares? This MAGA shit gotta stop sometime.
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Charles
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