Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
One of the main points in Rosato's argument is that, although never engaged in open war with another liberal democracy during the Cold War, the United States intervened openly or covertly in the political affairs of democratic states several times, for example in the Chilean coup of 1973, the Operation Ajax (1953 coup in Iran) and Operation ...
The United States had become Canada's largest market, and after the war, the Canadian economy became dependent on smooth trade flows with the United States so much that in 1971 when the United States enacted the "Nixon Shock" economic policies (including a 10% tariff on all imports) it put the Canadian government into a panic. Washington ...
Whether this is democratic control over the foreign policy of the Kaiser is "a difficult case"; [27] the constitution of the German Empire required that the Bundesrat consent to wars other than defensive wars; [28] Michael W. Doyle concludes, however, that the government was not absolutely dependent on the Reichstag – and that Germany was a ...
"Canada and the United States, that would really be something." He has even gone so far as to call the prime minister "Governor Trudeau," a position usually held by leaders of US states.
The United States is the most powerful partner in the relationship and while a full-on trade war would hurt American consumers, the fastest, most severe consequences would be felt in Canada.
Following the 2004 American election, some Americans distributed the satirical Jesusland map on the Internet, depicting a similar proposal under which the "blue states" were part of a new political entity called "The United States of Canada". In 2019, there was a petition calling for the United States to sell Montana to Canada to pay off the U ...
According to some Canadian security experts, Canada may reevaluate historically close Canada–United States relations in response to democratic backsliding in the U.S, which could bring instability to the region and compromise Canada's greatest source of intelligence.
Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.