What would the US stance be if Canada attacked Denmark?

I think that’ll be enough “tossing salad” jokes for one thread :wink:

I think they would find it hard to stand, what with all the laughing. I’m sure they would help out in the surrender treaty to make sure that Canadians kept some bits of Canada.

After giving the world Celine Dion and Pam Anderson, Paris Hilton cannot deter us.

However being a Canadian of Danish and British descent, I would have great difficulty should the above conflict actually occur, and would probably have to remain in exile in NYC. I’d be sure to set up a daily protest at the UN since it’s only a short walk from home. Of course, in my protest, I’d say that the disputed territory should be handed over to Danish-Canadians, namely myself and my family, to be ruled over in perpetuity. I would then set up Barbarianland as a sovereign country and make myself wealthy through arctic vacations in a heat-stricken world :wink:

Indeed. And, some of are within your borders.

Haven’t you ever seen “Miracle on 34th Street”? I read once that, according to the various post offices, the largest portion of letters to Santa Claus written by children around the world are addressed to him at the North Pole, Canada. Case closed. Santa was there way before Amundsen, and besides, he’s got that cool suit in Canadian colours.

Reading that brought a smile to my face :smiley: Any other parts of your country’s history you’d care to recite?

You know, I’m mildly surprised that people hadn’t heard of the turbot dust-up. Any attack on sovereignty in America or any other Western country, we’d have heard of it.

Start a war with Spain over something silly? Never happen.

And we know the U.S. has never engaged in any silly wars. (And look at the big names involved too. Gens. Pickett and Scott!)

NATO did not intervene in the Greek-Turkish war. A Canadian-Danish war would draw the same response.

I didn’t think so myself, but that was quite a while ago, and frankly, I was too lazy to try to Google it.

I do remember it was quite the international crisis for a few weeks, however.

Santa? Yeah, I know that guy. Everybody thinks he’s a nice old man, but he’s really only like that one day a year. You know the elves? Not elves. Child slaves. He also has a lot of girlfriends ‘on the side’ if you know what I mean. That’s what he does with his sled the rest of the year, goes and visits out of town girlfriends. Mrs. Claus actually IS hot though, and I keep her company when he’s out whoring. Also, he drinks a lot. He’s told me several times during some of our week long benders on whiskey and cocaine that he’d “rather the little shits would leave him shooters instead of milk”. But yeah, he’s Canadian.
PS: Rudolph’s a prick too.

Correct. NATO members are not obligated to help attack each other.

Canada has an Orange crop?
Who knew?

Getting back to the (somewhat) serious part of this discussion, do you think that a Canadian-Danish war would see the US stand idly by while Canadian naval superiority rendered the issue moot, or would the UN (or the US acting unilaterally - remember there are ongoing disputes over mineral and petroleum resources in the arctic - this could serve as an excuse for a US presence in the region) deploy peacekeepers (without a Canadian contingent, obviously) to prevent the Canadians from securing the disputed island and deploying to Greenland, until the Canadian and Danish governments resolved the issue?

Yeah, that was pretty Great. The English did bring warships to ram our fishing ships but we had a few cards up our collective sleeves to foil their evil scheme; The English Empire has nothing on the Military Powerhouse that is Iceland, when push comes to shove. They should be realising their folly now, seeing as how we are taking over England and all.

Next up: USA. We got there first and that damned Italian kid was not supposed to use the stories he heard here to navigate to North America. You have bigger issues than Canada (also our land, in a way), my friends…

Erm… what i meant to say, before my fit of megalomania, is that Iceland and the U.K. were NATO allies throughout the 18-year ‘debate’ and, as far as I know, NATO had no interest in intervening. I assume they had, though, had the English decided to crush us instead of just getting angry for a while. I bet they wish they had now, in retrospect.

Where did you think frozen orange juice came from?

I’m not sure I follow, but if the question is in the event of a war between Canada and Denmark would the US send peacekeepers to a godforsaken rock in a clandestine attempt to to lay claim to arctic territories and prevent a Canadian occupation of Greenland, my answer would be no.

I tried to laugh, but unless the word is actually misspelled “navel,” it just doesn’t work.

get that you are trying to ask again and again if the U.S. would intervene (forgive me if I am misreading your posts). The answer is no as Captain Lance Murdock and others have said. Ultimately NORAD integrity, $1.8 Billion per day in trade and the giant border would render the answer no to any military action by the U.S. vs. Canada direct or indirect unless Canada attacked the U.S. “Take the dam minerals you babies” would be the ultimate response