I wound up deciding that my thoughts on the first thirty tweets of this needed to be revised into a fuller essay.

https://xcancel.com/martianwyrdlord/status/1891935865187991808

I have a lot of minor disagreements, but agree with a core claim that Canada is a security problem for the US.

I disagree with an apparently core claim that parallels with Ukraine in Russia's favor are necessarily strong, and that they imply that the US can easily collect Canada. The parallel's with Ukraine are not in Russia's favor, and imply challenges with collecting Canada, Mexico, or Russia. Which are similarly problematic failed states in the US sphere of influence.

It is better to give Canadians a little more rope to hang their government with, and wait to commit ourselves, for a situation where we know what the eff is going on with our own internal politics.

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