AbsolutSurgen Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 3 hours ago, sblfilms said: Maybe it is from being on the opposite side of the country from Canada, but growing up Canada’s relationship with America wasn’t a remote thought. Our relationship with the European powers, and even Israel were in the ether. I wonder if it is different for those who grew up in the northern US states? I'm coming at it from the Canadian perspective. 1) Norad -- the joint Canada/US Air Defence alliance 2) Canada is the US's largest export market (and has been for a long time) - CUSMA trade agreement 3) Largest border, with the most lax entry requirements (NEXUS program, numerous unmanned border crossings, flights from Canada to US complete immigration in Canada, etc.) 4) Regulatory alignment -- Broad alignment on everything from cars to household goods 5) 5-Eyes intelligence alliance 6) Numerous joint policing/prosecuting agreements Don't want to derail this thread too much more than I already have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 We have unmanned border crossings??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 12 minutes ago, Jason said: We have unmanned border crossings??? I’m guessing it is anywhere you can cross the border where there isn’t an official checkpoint. … like nearly all of the border. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 25 minutes ago, Jason said: We have unmanned border crossings??? There are entire towns on the US/Canada border where you can just walk down the sidewalk from one to the other. Many roads lead between the countries with no checkpoint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 You can also get a boating permit that allows you to enter Canada/US by phoning in your arrival. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Blacque Jacque Shellacque - Google Maps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 44 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: There are entire towns on the US/Canada border where you can just walk down the sidewalk from one to the other. Many roads lead between the countries with no checkpoint. 16 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said: Blacque Jacque Shellacque - Google Maps Huh, I knew there are border towns where all of the stores are on one side of the border but I thought they had cracked down on casually strolling across the border to go shopping in those places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 And I see the program that allows it is suspended due to COVID. I guess you're just SOL if you're on the side of the border without stores? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted August 17, 2021 Author Share Posted August 17, 2021 There's like two small towns on the Quebec and maine border that applies to. Anywhere else you get harassed to death when coming back to the US. My wife's family is from Detroit and they used to go into Canada all the time with minimal hassle long ago but so much changed after 9/11 (you know, when this country went psycho) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 6 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: There's like two small towns on the Quebec and maine border that applies to. Anywhere else you get harassed to death when coming back to the US. My wife's family is from Detroit and they used to go into Canada all the time with minimal hassle long ago but so much changed after 9/11 (you know, when this country went psycho) That's more in line with what I had thought the case to be, that pre-9/11 it was fine and post-9/11 it became a nightmare where the stores are on the other side of the border but the nearest actual border crossing might be a good ways away. And at least in Detroit you have what you need in Detroit. In these small outposts... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 6 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: you know, when this country went psycho Also I think this predates 9/11 but part of the reason rail service into Canada is such shit is that the US insists that there can only be a single boarding point on the Canadian side of the border. The train can't stop again until it hits the border crossing. This is especially problematic for where Detroit is because a Detroit-Toronto line that skips London isn't viable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted August 17, 2021 Author Share Posted August 17, 2021 8 minutes ago, Jason said: That's more in line with what I had thought the case to be, that pre-9/11 it was fine and post-9/11 it became a nightmare where the stores are on the other side of the border but the nearest actual border crossing might be a good ways away. And at least in Detroit you have what you need in Detroit. In these small outposts... Just casually using Google maps on the boarder nearly every little road and town on the border has a border patrol office right on it so yeah you might be able to cross the street into one country or the other, you're not leaving that town without doing so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 Three ways this Afghanistan crisis really hurts Biden WWW.BBC.COM The US president promised more competence and empathy - his reputation and America's have taken a hit. Quote Biden's election campaign could be boiled down to three messages to distinguish himself from Donald Trump. First, he would be more empathetic. He would be more competent. And instead of "America First", it would be replaced by the mantra "America is back". But in his address yesterday, there wasn't a whole lot of empathy towards the thousands of Afghans who've helped Americans these past 20 years. On competence, even his biggest cheerleaders would struggle to say the withdrawal of American troops has been anything other than shambolic. And after the bewildering events of the past few days, how exactly is America back? Many see what has unfolded on President Biden's watch in Afghanistan as a linear continuation of Donald Trump's America First policies - and, as some have joked cruelly, not as well organised. ... When the G7 gathered in Cornwall and the Nato nations met in Brussels the sense of relief was palpable among the prime ministers and presidents that a more outward looking American president was in charge. But given what has unfolded - how America has been humiliated, how Joe Biden embarked on a policy he was cautioned against by these leaders - there is now a good deal more wariness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 My patience for, "The world is punish-fucking this group of disenfranchised people. Here's how that affects powerful, white men," takes is fucking nil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 Aren't Afghans white? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Remarkableriots Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 These Afghans spent years helping the US. Now they say they've been abandoned WWW.MSN.COM Fawad is one of hundreds and probably thousands of Afghans whose applications for visas to enter the US are somewhere in limbo. Now, unable to reach Kabul airport, he and his family are living in fear -- too scared to venture outside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 Afghans watch nervously as Taliban regime takes shape, and US and its allies continue frantic exit WWW.MSN.COM Thousands of desperate Afghans remain stranded under Taliban rule in Kabul on Tuesday, as the US and its allies -- still frantically evacuating their personnel from the city's airport -- reckon with the sudden breakdown of their two-decade effort in Afghanistan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jwheel86 Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 (Northern gate is the military side of the airport) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 UK student who travelled to Afghanistan for holiday evacuated WWW.BBC.COM Miles Routledge, from Birmingham, claims he visited Kabul because he enjoys "extreme tourism". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Air_Delivery Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 16 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said: UK student who travelled to Afghanistan for holiday evacuated WWW.BBC.COM Miles Routledge, from Birmingham, claims he visited Kabul because he enjoys "extreme tourism". Fucking moron. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Air_Delivery Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 If you wanna know why the Afghan military was steamrolled in 2 weeks. These soldiers are the most useless motherfuckers on the planet. Literally adult children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 5 minutes ago, Air_Delivery said: If you wanna know why the Afghan military was steamrolled in 2 weeks. These soldiers are the most useless motherfuckers on the planet. Literally adult children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Air_Delivery Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 Just now, mclumber1 said: Reminds when when I subbed Adapted PE classes for my mom. I'm not exaggerating when I say second graders would do better than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said: His last name is CORTES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 1 minute ago, SuperSpreader said: His last name is CORTES He pronounces it as "Courts" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 Just now, Keyser_Soze said: He pronounces it as "Courts" Idiot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 3 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said: Idiot I'm not stating a fact I'm making a joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said: I'm not stating a fact I'm making a joke. Need dat /s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 7 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said: Need dat /s Although it's not too far fetched. Remember that baseball player, Mat Diaz? He pronounced it as "Die-Az" because he wanted to be different or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 7 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said: Although it's not too far fetched. Remember that baseball player, Mat Diaz? He pronounced it as "Die-Az" because he wanted to be different or something. Self hating Latinos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 26 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said: I'm not stating a fact I'm making a joke. Dont take it personally, my man SS rightfully has a deep hatred for anyone with the last name Cortes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 5 minutes ago, Joe said: Dont take it personally, my man SS rightfully has a deep hatred for anyone with the last name Cortes. There's nothing to take personally tough. I'm pretty sure he was calling Cortes the idiot not me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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