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Bolster our army for what? If Russia invaded it's through the US anyway, and if the US invades we're fucked anyway.
The fucking polar bears man... you ever seen a polar bear with a minigun strapped to its back? Fucking terrifying.
Heavily armed polar bears kept us from discovering the northwest passage for centuries - it was always there but those fucking bears kept sinking our ships... and it didn't help that sailors on a three month trek would run into a polarbear in a vinyl catsuit and be absolutely helpless to resist those dummy thicc polar bear thighs.
It's very unlikely to happen, but Canada effectively shares a huge border with Russia via the north. It's not Alaska or bust, and there's been a decent amount of talk about Arctic security in the last decade or so.
Sure, but Canada's military isn't going to make a difference when the worlds most powerful military - , is going to also be fighting Russia in this circumstance... from home soil. This would be an absolute suicidal attack from Russia, which even if they did, would be taken out by the US before we had a chance to do anything. We would have to increase spending to four times of what we do now to even match what Russia spends, let alone what the USA does (that would be what, 37 times what we spend now).
And for what? You think a Russian incursion is going to make it anywhere near American airspace? What exactly is our 'increased military spending' going to do, exactly?
There's more forms of coercion than just annexation by land. Reminder that Canada came from a European invasion in the first place.