Canada: Loner Of The North

Day 137, 17:55 Published in USA USA by Desertfalcon
Canada remains without a Mutual Protection Pact.

Ottawa, Canada- Life is good in the America's. There are no major hostilities between any of its nations and the dominant powers and potential threat all lay on the other sides of major oceans. From the looks of the continent you would almost think that a leader here would not have to worry about foreign relations, which would be nice but at the same time misleading.

On the dawn of war the nations of the America's are a bit behind their European counter parts with their top three military powers (USA,Brazil, and Canada) coming in at 9,14, and 16 respectively. But the United States has taken a good look at the military situation and has struck mutual protection pacts with eleven different countries which would make a huge international incident should an invasion be launched against them. Out of those eleven four of them are nations on the Americas.

They have a pact with their neighbor to the south, Mexico as well as with the second greatest military power in the Americas, Brazil. This is Perhaps the most powerful of all the alliances in the Americas, with the U.S., Brazil,Mexico,Venezuela, and Argentina all allied with each other. It would be wise for Canada to try to get in this group. As the saying goes “If you can't beat em, join em.”

Those military pacts should worry Canada as they have yet to strike a mutual protection pact with any other nation. If Canada fails to take action in global diplomacy they may be in for a rough time. Relations between the U.S. and Canada are good now but what if there is a major change in congress and the president? If relations deteriorate between the two and war is declared the Canadians will have to fight a very steep uphill battle.

The United States is growing at a faster rate and already has a huge lead on Canada in every category. If Canada wants to stay relative in the Americas they must find a strong ally and increase their numbers faster. Canada is projected to increase in population by 70% in April but the US is expected to increase by 100% thus doubling their population. The U.S. also has a large military strength advantage with Canada at 5104 to 1979.Though war is a unlikely and quite a bit of a stretch its better to be prepared in case things do get ugly and a larger population wouldn't hurt. Diplomacy is the key.

I hope you enjoyed this article, I know its not as good as my last one but with the upcoming war module release I needed something to tide me over.

Population predictions calculated using growth between April 1st and now.