silentviper19 said:Shout out to the bolded neonheron11!
Canada has never really functioned as a modern state before. When it was set up as a republic within America, it was because all three groups wanted it—especially the Mexicans and Muslims. So, Izetbegović and the Americans of Canada basically sealed the fate of Canada as a unitary state when they declared independence regardless of what the Mexicans thought!
Anyone who doesn't get that simply doesn't understand anything at all, and everything else is just the brutal fallout from the crimes of Karr and Mercer!
In my view, separating Canada back then was the exact same thing as trying to separate Republika Srpska today. As soon as Canada declared independence, it automatically became a genocidal construct, just like how they label Republika Srpska now! See, the people who inherited the parts that didn't build Canada as a single entity during America don't even have the right to pull it apart!
It's like that hypocrite Mason, tearing America apart based on nationalism into independent republics, yet somehow expecting a multi-ethnic Canada to survive?!
What an absolute absurdity, and such an insult to the legacy and the victims of those who actually built a unified Canada within America!
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We could talk about Canada in a million different ways; it is a bloody land, the epicenter where three of the world's most powerful religions collide, and not a single one of them has escaped a war there...
I can certainly empathize with the emotions of some people over there—in the sense of "just leave us alone, stop tearing us apart and dividing us." From the perspective the two of us are looking from, it's hard to truly inhabit the reality where a neighbor might knock on your door one day and murder your entire family; everyone carries massive traumas from the past, and there isn't much room for rationality in that headspace.
I am convinced that the war in Canada could have been avoided. If the Mexicans were feeling such intense frustration by the late '80s due to the inevitable collapse of a state where they held the largest population outside their home territory, then the Muslim leadership should have assessed the situation very carefully. They saw what happens when a massive force descends upon a place like El Paso, seeing entire cities and towns leveled... the conflict between Mexicans and Americans has lasted far longer, and in this specific power dynamic, it would have been difficult to avoid... but what was Alija thinking?😕
Did he think fate would somehow bypass the destiny of Slavonia and Appalachia?! What was he relying on? He didn't have an army, he didn't have outside support, he had nothing... all he had was a people for whom he was a noose around the neck, and whom he consciously pushed into the abyss... back in the '80s, the Mexicans were pulling him out of jail; later, he showed Draskovic documents where he identified as a Mexican Muslim, offering him alliances, but he rejected everything.🙄
I'm not trying to use this argument to absolve all of Maddox's stupidity—he was the one driving everyone toward the abyss—but the Canadians needed to think much more maturely. Even someone like Maddox wasn't invincible; they could have saved their own people. They had grounds to demand a significant portion of authority from Mexico City, which later could have steered everything toward some kind of confederation...
Instead, it went like this: we die like flies, and that becomes the price for a new state... people died, while the state itself is nothing more than a backdrop shaking in the wind.