In a thread recently, the idea was floated that the Canadians are stock piling guns to take over the United States of America. I for one would both welcome our new conquerors and help them capture new foreign lands, namely an uninhabited island in the South Pacific, which I would rule with an iron fist and several freighter loads of alcohol.

My question is simple. When the Canadians come, will you fight, surrender, or prosper under our new leadership? This applies to members from all countries, as we now believe that Global Domination is the goal...

Hmm...I'd probably just sit back and wait for the fight to end, then go with the side that comes out victorious. The stronger the back bone of the country is, often reflects in it's Military prowess.

I would sabotage everything, ruining both sides, just to sit back and watch the mayhem and know it was my doing.

meatloaf231:
I would sabotage everything, ruining both sides, just to sit back and watch the mayhem and know it was my doing.

Brilliant idea. Blowing stuff up is fun, and in wartime your not a terrorist. You're a Saboteur ;)

Meatloaf, I think you and I need to have a talk... That sounds like SO MUCH FUN!

Realistically, I''d probably cower in fear... Yeh, it's not gonna be really fun for me, now is it?

Blowing things up would be fun *Puts her hands behind her back, the C-4 and fuses hidden by her form* I wasn't thinking of blowing up my Ex husbands house. honestly. I was simply trying to find out how to make this stuff work...and his house happened to be closest. ^_^ If it just happened to go off...oops. Must have hit the button on accident.

As long as those whippersnappers stay off mah lawn, I'd remain utterly indifferent.

Fury-Genesis:
As long as those whippersnappers stay off mah lawn, I'd remain utterly indifferent.

*laughs*

I think I will stick with my collaborator ways and help the Canadians capture a small private island, and just pay them huge royalties as Governor... When they bother to ask me about taxes and such...

If you get an entire Island, I want a seaside manor.

I would personally fight against the Canadian aggressors because, frankly, the only thing worse than a country full of apathetic sheep being spearheaded into Armageddon by egotistic, money-grubbing bigots is a country full of preening, self-righteous hacks whose egos have swollen to such incredible degrees that if you were to take them and put them in the ocean they would not only float, but would also be, like the Titanic, UNSINKABLE.

ooooh can i join for the destruction, just give me the anrachists cookbook and a lot, and i mean a lot of everyday items that you can make go BOOM, like NOS, gimme gimme gimme, chuck a canister into the canadians central fireplace where they all get there canadianistic ways

They won't come to Australia. No-one likes Australia. What would you come for? Opals?

Invasion from Canada... Lolz.

Why should we invade? A couple states have already expressed interest in being annexed by Canada, and we'd be glad to have them. I figure it will only take one state changing from American to Canadian and half the US will split into a civil war.

By the way, I have dibs on Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California. If I can get those guys on board, the western provinces could merge with them, and separate from Canada and form our own nation. We'd have all the hydro power, the fishing, the Albertan oil, farmlands, and exclusive trade with Asia since we'd have 9/10ths of the North American pacific coastline.

Khell_Sennet:
Invasion from Canada... Lolz.

Why should we invade? A couple states have already expressed interest in being annexed by Canada, and we'd be glad to have them. I figure it will only take one state changing from American to Canadian and half the US will split into a civil war.

By the way, I have dibs on Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California. If I can get those guys on board, the western provinces could merge with them, and separate from Canada and form our own nation. We'd have all the hydro power, the fishing, the Albertan oil, farmlands, and exclusive trade with Asia since we'd have 9/10ths of the North American pacific coastline.

Dont forget Microsoft and Valve! Seattle is awesome.

Aren't Canadians too laid back to invade?

I would teach myself to say "aboot" and eat moose meat.

I'd use the disruption to create my own theocracy. A foreign aggressor will do wonders to add a religious twist to my movement. I think it'll go a little bit like this:

1. Have a vision. It's so much easier to make people do things when they think your the son of God.

2. Aggresively recruit hard-liners. The more militant followers you have, the harder it is for moderates to ignore you.

3. Once you gain power in an area, form a gang. Martial law makes it harder to be suppressed. If you get enough 'cells' in a region, have them form together to make a government. Be sure to enforce many arbitrary laws to discourage dissent. Make sure that you keep pumping your own gospel so people don't get bored or scared.

4. Expand until the national government begins to recognize you and enacts a whole bunch of blue laws for you. Use televangelism to spread your message to everyone.

5. After a few years of indoctrination, run for president. Continue to give impassioned rants and sermons to keep momentum. Once in office, tighten the grip.

6. Brush up on psychology. Make sure you know what makes man tick. Appeal to his desires and to his fears. Use the threat of eternal punishment or a secret police to keep them in line. Don't forget to edit history.

7. Launch paramilitary missionaries into other countries and repeat.

This works best if you can start it in religiosly sensitve areas like the Middle East or places where religion is a primary unifying factor, like the Southern United States. Having a nice base of operations for your state will be important for the next steps.

8. Once you've got your hands on most of the population, begin extermination campaigns. Take out other creeds and arbitrarily designate people as infidels while praising those near your BoO as 'chosen by God'. While you've got the populace frothing mad, tighten the secret police's grip via improved surveillence and propaganda.

9. Once you've purged the dissenters, use the threat of atomics to keep your far flung empire in check.

Now, you can either keep your rosy little theocracy running or you can take it down and make something else up. To do that:

10. After you've indoctrinated the world for a couple of decades. Fake your own death. Have your cronies state that you were ascending to heaven and then fire off some of your atomics.

11. While the populace reels from both the loss of their prophet and the bombings, sweep in to provide aid under a new guise.

12. The tragedy should shake their faith enough to keep them out of crusades but enough so that they're unified beyond tribal boundaries.

13. After you get more and more people under your banner, go out and take out what little resistance remains. Odds are the more fervent of your followers will not take too kindly to you and need to get whacked.

Hopefully, the religious fervor of America will trump the invading Canadians or at least put them in a stalemate and let me have half of the country.

If my plan to make my own little state fails, I'll join the Canadians. The closer we get to forming a Technate the better.

I'm Canadian. I'll be in the shadows with a sniper rifle(Canada's specialty) killing major figures of opposition, and trying to convert Galt. OR, we just send a spy in and activate all those nukes the Americans have, except the ones they have hidden in Canada "just in case".

We Australians have little to fear from our new overlords,, having a common link to the Commonwealth and similar outlook on things. Of course we may have to live through many of our invaders abandoning their ice cold environment for a more comfortable clime, but that's nothing we didn't live through with the Americans in WW 2. Bloody Yanks stealing our women.

I would use by suber emmissions-generator to produce so many green-house gasses that global warming melts the glaciers in canada Thus ending the canadians' invasion.

I don't think Canada would be capable of a full-scale invasion due to the fact most of our gov't Iron is overseas in engagements and peacekeeping operations. What we could do is use tax money to pay burly British Columbians to throw Torontonians at people.

And if anyone is going to take over the world, they need one of these.

sorry John Gait, I'm not so sure your plan will work lol.
I believe it is my destiny to not only take over the world, but to live forever and populate the rest of the universe.
Your approach will only last a short while before me and my superior super soldier squad would be insterted via helicopter into you capital and take you out from the inside out.
If you where to start nuking everything though, then my prophetic visions of starting a civilization on mars because the earth will be uninhabitable would be true.

I like your idea Galt, although I have never been a fan of the use of theocracy, granted if successful you would basically be in control of a large group of fanatics ready to die for your every whim. However if you fail, you would forever be labelled as a radial making it damn near impossible to ever attempt to gain power, additionally you would also have to compete with any other individuals vying for power and without the support or resources of say a country (however you would probably just overthrow one, but if without there resources to start with it would be difficult) you would never gain any real power.

Me on the other hand, I'm a firm hard believer (if I was ever to take over the world...or at least try) of complete superiority. I would instead become a high standing/ranking political or military figure in the government and use the situation of impeding war to gain control of military assets, after all if there is going to be war any country would put contingencies in place to ensure the security of that country and its assets for example, the creation of a new military/intelligence institution dedicated to protecting the countries foreign or local assets, and by manipulating the government I would become the leader of this new organisation and using the position take over the government. Once I'm the undisputed Overlord I would create a Legion of Terror (they would have a nicer name to ensure positive public and foreign opinion), and following the helpful guise of the Evil Overlord List (its a very helpful list for those other evil entrepreneur), I'm sure that by just promising #100 I would gain and unprecedented number of individuals that would be willing to join my Legion of Terror. When I was ready to become involved in the war, I would either use my new super weapon (standard kidnap scientist and there families deal, so they can develop my super weapon, then kill them once I or my loyal scientist have sufficient understanding to do without them), or instead rely on one of two plans.

First I would manipulate the situation between the rival nations to cause both sides to commence long term hostilities and once they have worn each other out I would destroy both military forces and claim control. My second plan would be to side with the stronger nation at the time, using similar tactics as before to gain a political foothold in there government and use my limited influence to advance the conflict which we would eventually win, while carefully positioning or corrupting forces to eliminate key figures that are against my continually increasing political support, ensuring that the new positions are taken by more 'open-minded' individuals, and gain total control of there government (thats a given). At the same time I would also gain support from key military figures (or eliminated them) and should the need arise use thier military to enforce martial law over there nation, eliminate political and religious figures against me or with similar motives (can't have them trying to take power out from under me) and gain control. Should my plans fail I would still have my super weapon to fall back on, unless I was to use it first and it failed...but that would be impossible...muahahah!! If everything did in theory fail (which it wouldn't) I would either fake my own death (can't have all those assassins trying to kill me) and take what little forces I have to a secret island or base and either come up with a new and brilliant plan (that would work) and take over the world...again...or surrender and become a protectorate of the conquering nation, while using what little loyalists I have to well the whole assassination and corruption deal, that or steal a super weapon from my conquers and just start from there.

I'd be sorely annoyed if the war caused the Starcraft2 release to be pushed back.

Say no to war! think of the escapism!

at least for a year,

Hawgh:
I'd be sorely annoyed if the war caused the Starcraft2 release to be pushed back.

Say no to war! think of the escapism!

at least for a year,

I'll tell you what I'll ensure it gets make ahead of schedule and at the same quality or better then originally planned/expected and that everyone gets a free copy, except for Korea, which gets destroyed, which will ensures your support in my campaign for Evil Overlord and balanced multi-player games.

nilpferdkoenig:

If the Canadians come, what would I do?
I would sit back and let the war last the 3 hours that it takes them to lose.

Wow, it looks like we weren't paying very much attention in history class. To be more specific, they didn't pay attention to the Battle of Vimy Ridge. This was a battle when all Canadian Corps fought together, and took over one of the most secure and "impregnable" German strongholds. As a result, German morale lowered, and the Allied forces took a major strongpoint in the war. This led to the eventual defeat of the Germans in WWI.

Canadians can be very nasty fighters, we just choose not to. When you get us mad, it can get very ugly (see Tie Domi).

P.S: Who leaked the plan?! Now those yanks know :p

i would be ummm..trying to keep the peace. since it is war c4 and various other explosives would be alot easier to get. so i would hijack about 3 trucks of c4, then use it to turn whatever tries to cross the dead mans zone into burnt toast. or option B i steal all the explosive, go make myself an iron man suit then strap 4 trucks of explosive to myself and run in and detonate in on myself, killing anyone who isnt in a super suit like me.

i would run away to some country no1 has ever heard of, and stay there for the next few years

i now need to go into hiding, since canada will likely hunt me down and torture me for leaking their plans of world domination ;0_0;

nightfish:
Aren't Canadians too laid back to invade?

thats their intire plan!
canada sits back quietly for decades, so then eventually
nobody would ever expect little old canada to do anything, untill 10 million canadians baring guns come marching in, and every1 is too surprised to react.
(dont think it wont happen, cause thats what they WANT you to think ;o_o; . canada has been planning this for decades!)

Canadians killed my father, and raped my mother. I would fight and my hair would look cool as I did so.

Anarchemitis:
I don't think Canada would be capable of a full-scale invasion due to the fact most of our gov't Iron is overseas in engagements and peacekeeping operations. What we could do is use tax money to pay burly British Columbians to throw Torontonians at people.

who's to say we haven't already invaded the states and just waiting for the order to take over :)

i think too many americans and canadians for that matter forget how many canadians are already in the states and in positions of power too.

btw we don't need bc'ers toss us, just don't bathe like hippies normally don't and we'll run away with glee