Why does this exist?

Why is it not part of USA?

Not worth the effort, 90% of it is pretty much uninhabitable.

We don't want it.

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they've got $billions of natural resources though

>we don't want it
lmao implying you'd ever actually just go and take it

Alaska is also almost uninhabitable, but you bought it from ruskies.
And what about the oil?

That is about as much as in your major cities.

We could pretty much enslave them through trade deals. Not worth it. Maybe when they turn into a caliphate we'll be able to justify blockading them until they starve or freeze to death.

Exactly this. The states can take whatever they want from us because our politicians are gigantic pussies. They can take all our water, we literally beg them to take our oil, they could show up to our door and ask for our first borns and there's not a damned thing we could do thanks to spineless "leaders" more willing to dump money into the financial abyss of Quebec instead of funding our army. Also, nobody wants to deal with Quebec. At least the landscape is nice.

Because after the war of 1812, when Canadians realized that the Brits were focused entirely on post-Napoleonic Europe, rather than NA issues, they pretty much had to pursue friendly relations with the US (which they achieved) or risk being taken over as the US was still much stronger than Canada.

Had they continued being enemies of the US, it's very likely that since the Brits no longer cared about NA affairs, that the US would've taken over Canada in another war a few years later.

The correct answer is that it would hurt your global standing and relationships if you took over Canada. People actually like Canada outside of Sup Forums.

That and you're more than happy cucking canadians out of their raw crude oil (and other natural resources) without having to administer the operations.

When will ukraine annex us

most of that oil is useless sludge that takes more energy to convert into usable oil than we get back form the oil itself

because if you touched it this would be on the way

along with half of europe and the commonwealth

the days of 1st world nations fighting is over....its all about proxy wars for keks now.

It's for safety, imagine the hell if us and Canadian sjws mixed

mexico and your enemies in the middle east would join in to get a slice after the dust settled also

you would also have uprisings all over america and canada for an illegal invasion

the whole world would do everything they could to undermine you and sanction you into submission

The majority of our population lives in the major cities, yes, but it is not true that 90% of our land is uninhabitable. The Nevada desert and the swampiest parts of Louisiana probably, but the majority of our country is live-able.

also we brought alaska not because of the oil but because of the gold that we found there after we purchased, we nearly didn't buy the place because we suspected there was nothing of value there since russia didn't do anything on the land. Then some senator convinced congress to buy it because there might be gold there. probably the best risk we ever took as a nation

because it needs to be colonized by the chinese first

Why does this exist? Why is it not part of Russia?

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