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Politicians hide themselves away

They only started the war

Why should they go out to fight?

They’ll leave that up to the poor!

We (Americans) also basically failed at nearly every single engagement that was an attempted incursion into British/Canadian territory or attack on a British fort/settlement west of the US proper, they were pretty much all either repulsed, or only initially successful for a short amount of time and then driven out.

I could be wrong, but I am willing to bet that many of those soldiers opposing the Americans involved in initial American incursions into Canada were British soldiers who lived in Canada, and/or were Native/First Nations allies of the British, and are thus proto-Canadians, unlike the Royal Navy and Marines who showed up in force within about a year, and were then withdrawn after the US basically sued for peace.

I agree that it’s an oversimplification to view the entire war as just US vs a nascent Canada, but I also think it’s an oversimplification to view the entire war as the US vs the UK.

Also I didn’t state that Canadians burned down DC. I said that the last time the US fucked with Canada, the result was our capitol being burned down.

The last time Americans fucked with Canada… the Whitehouse and DC were burned to the ground.

Am American, can confirm.

My boomer uncle is a lifelong raging alcoholic.

Lived with my grandma, his mom, unemployed, for 15 ish years, as a 40ish to 50ish year old.

…Untill he threatened the neighbor with a gun, fled to the other side of the state, still living on a stipend from his mom.

Last time I talked to him was when he called me out of nowhere, saying he needed my social security number so that he could… put me in his will.

Mhm. Yep. Not like he’s got charges for identity theft and fraud or anything.

Tell my family this and they gasp, no, he wouldn’t do that!

sigh