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Canada would have been a big sitting Canadian Goose to USSR if the Good old US of A was not here to carry the defense for Canada.

I used to like Canada ,Gordon Lightfoot was my favorite singer, but now Canada is an embarrassment. They even want to make the Bible hate speech.

I think we pulled our weight in the cold war. We definitly got a little too soft, complacent and liberal lately, however since 9/11 that trend is slowly reversing, hastened I might add by this most recent idiotic commentary. Canadians are really not much different than Americans, battling the cultural divide between liberalism and conservativism and the Canucks on these threads are your friends and allies, not your adversaries.

I used to like Canada ,Gordon Lightfoot was my favorite singer,

OH MY GAWD - and you have the nerve to talk about embarrassment.

How about "I love the US, Boston Pizza is my favourite restaurant."?

Yeah, the USSR would have amassed an invasion fleet around, let's say, Vladivostok. Then they would have crossed the Pacific in two weeks "sneaking up" on Canada. Then after taking Vancouver, they would have landed all their T-55s and headed for Ottawa, 3000 miles away. Across the Rockies (which offer 3 passes in BC, so steep that you could block them with a few tons of TNT), and the plains. Hardly any air support at the beginning because the USSR didn't have a real aircraft carrier (the Moskva held mainly helicopters), no airborne logistics because there is no friendly base within a few thousand miles. That's the same Russians that withdrew from (comparatively) tiny Afghanistan because they couldn't hold it. But, yeah, they'll take on the second-largest country in the world on the other side of the globe. No bases in between, no allied countries in between. But M007 goes in there and takes it en passant. I recommend you study the logistics of Napoleon in Russia, Hitler in Russia, and the USSR in Afghanistan a bit more closely and ask yourself why the superior power always failed. And while you're at it, have a look at NATO's Flexible Response doctrine and what that would have meant for Russia if they had opened a front on their Eastern flank.

Man, I hate you yappers that have never served in a logistics platoon.