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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40573684
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In 2026 Trump was mad, he was the president you know.
Well he thought he’d tell the Canadians where they ought to go.
He thought he’d invade Canada, he thought that he was tough.
Instead we went to washington, and burned down all his stuff!
♪ ♫ And the White House burned, burned, burned. And we’re the one’s that did it. It burned, burned, burned, While the president ran and cried ♪ ♫
JOKES ON U WE ALREADY TORE HALF OF it DOWN THIS TIME HAHA HAVE FUN BURNING A PILE OF RUBBLE
Half the country is being torn down at this point… I’ve honestly never seen any country do so much damage to itself without any gain whatsoever. Only Trump himself (and perhaps some of his friends) seem to have gained anything at all…
Although, I guess it does kind of have old school Russia vibes now I think about it.
I’ve honestly never seen any country do so much damage to itself without any gain whatsoever.
Only because you weren’t alive to see Nazi Germany.
… I think I used the phrase ‘national auto-lobotomy’ around back this time last year, when the tariff train started to get a’rollin.
It will still be fun, just not as satisfying
For a fun time, ask ANY American who won the war of 1812.
Shit, ask them who they were even fighting.
As an American who knows my own country’s history…
You have no idea how much I love citing that entire war as an example of how military adventurism can be very bad and stupid, and also an example of / push off point to go into how Canadians tend to significantly punch above their weight in basically all military conflicts they’ve been involved in.
Yeah, sit down GI Joe, lemme tell about the time we got our asses handed to us and lost nearly (or just actually?) every single land campaign of that entire war… to the Canadians.
(Or at least their forebearers, if we must be pedantic.)
Lemme tell ya about how US special forces came about as a collaborative effort of largely US and Canadians sharing notes during/after WW2.
Lemme tell you about how their standard issue infantry weapons are basically no bullshit, more reliable and rugged and practical versions of what we use.
When the Canadian ceases being polite, know that you have fucked up royally.
America or a stalemate depending on how you look at it. The stated goals were achieved, the end of impressment of American sailors by the British
slaversNavy, international recognition of American sovereignty, and an end to trade restrictions by the British (so in short to get the British to accept that America was independent and would stay that way, get over it)Now, the reality is that they really just wanted to annex Canada, the stated goals while justified were secondary to that and that obviously failed.
The war ended with no territory changing hands but with the major American diplomatic demands being met. Aka, victory, if not the one they really wanted.
The British Empire.
Do you think 1812 is a footnote and not one of the major wars taught in American history? It’s a footnote to British history, sure, as a side theatre of the Napoleonic Wars but it was a war that could have ended America and it’s taught as such, sometimes explicitly as a continuation of the segments on the Revolution.
They also put down Tecumseh’s confederacy and killed like 10k natives that didn’t agree with them which was a major thorn in their side.
Yeah, you can’t forget that just because they couldn’t expand north with murder it still enabled westward expansion with murder.
… Do you think its a footnote…
… In Canadian history?
I think Canada’s relationship to 1812 is approximately that of American involvement in the French and Indian War.
Technically it’s part of the history, as a British colony with the fighting done by British troops pulled from all over the empire.
Oh, so the French and Indian War was basically a massively important pre-Revolution war that later saw a lot of commanders and veterans from that war become commanders and soldiers and/or political figures in the Revolution…
And it massively shaped the overall martial culture of the colonies, the massive cost of it laid the ground work for justifying many of the specific taxes and policies that were later explictly rebelled against during the Revolution…
… it established and cemented territorial claims and boundaries, such that more complex and stable local and regional economies could either form or further solidify…
And it saw the beginnings of a collective identity that was seen as distinct and seperate from that of the overseas imperial homeland.
So you’re saying it was a massively important war that helped lay the groundwork for forming a nascent, collective, national identity.
… right?
You’re very much overstating the importance of a two year war fought fifty years before Canada was even formed but otherwise sure, that was already implied.
And it still doesn’t change the fact that America didn’t lose the War of 1812 and you’d have to be profoundly ignorant to claim it did.
Now, if you want to point out that just like in the Revolution America only survived because the Empire was busy fighting the French, that’s an interesting point to bring up.
Fun Fact: the European population of Canada in 1812 was ~250k. It would grow by ~90k, an absolute absurd population boom from American loyalists immigrating during and after the war…
When they realized the British Empire wouldn’t be retaking the colonies after all.
(The population of America in 1812 was 7.2 million, so it turns out the most important facet of 1812 for Canada wasn’t the “martial tradition” of doing what the British said but getting 1.25% of Americans to immigrate there)
Ok then, so you can perhaps see how, albeit the War of 1812 and the French and Indian War werent the same war and didnt change their respective societies in precisely the same ways…
The war of 1812 would ineed be a rather important milestone in Pre-Canadian history, from a Canadian point of view?
Who said it wasn’t?
See, when any other country invades another country and then gets kicked back out and gets their capitol burned to the ground, they are generally considered to have lost that war.
Imagine if Ukraine repelled Russia to back into their historical borders and bombed the Putin’s palace into Rubble, would you describe that as a victory for Russia?
Thank you for demonstrating my statement for me.
No, you lose a war when it’s lost lmao.
Did France, Ethiopia, and China lose WW2?
Did Russia for that matter? The Kremlin was bombed, I guess that means their army had to give up and stop fighting.
Very credible opinion you have there. Definitely don’t look any further at your own biases…
Are you trying to demonstrate that Americans are as ignorant of other wars as they are of the ones within their own country? Well, good point, I guess.
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tHey bUrnEd a BuildinG sO thEy WoN yOU DoNT kNoW hiSTory
Yes, we know your country is a clown country led by a clown and populated with clowns. You are doing great, keep it up.
The USA “won” the War of 1812 the same way it won the American War of Independence, paying to maintain control wasn’t worth the gains of maintaining control.
Who was trying to take control of America in 1812?
