Wouldn't it be funny if WWIII was started over the North Pole?

[apotheosis]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070802/ts_nm/russia_arctic_dc_7

Russia has claimed ownership to much of the North Pole. This is because, due to glacial melting, a passage from Europe to Asia may open and about 10 billion barrels worth of oil are now available in the arctic sea bed. As you can guess, some other nations including the infamous US and their northern neighbors Canada, are not to happy about these claims from Russia.

I would laugh if the "cold" war warmed up over the North Pole. Santa might get nuked in the process.

[donteatpoop]

Oh yeah, that'd be a riot.

[End Master]

Meh, Russia just wants to be taken as a serious world power again, but its a bad sign when Canada's laughing at you though.

This “claiming” of little bits of artic ice is just saber rattling. They’re probably still pissed about giving us Alaska. (Just think of how the US/Soviet Cold War would have been if that hadn’t happened!)

[apotheosis]

I think that Canada should be entitled to the majority to the North Pole. They deserve it for being so damn.... non confrontational.

[JJJ-thebanisher]

I think that Canada should be entitled to the majority to the North Pole. They deserve it for being so damn.... non confrontational.

Yeah WE do deserve it? I mean.. Yeah.. We do.. OK, well I think as long as anyone but America, Russia, (insert every other country but Canada here) doesnt get it.. Were all good.

[Usoki]

Honestly? I want Canada to declare war on Switzerland. Screw the North Pole.

[JJJ-thebanisher]

Switzerland? Why them. Dont they make good cheeses? Or wait.. Is it chocolate?

EDIT: No wait thats belgium.. Lets declare war on them. MMMM

[Usoki]

What do you mean, why?

The country that has remained neutral for all of remembered history to wage war against the country that hasn't done anything worthwhile since its founding?

Hilarious!

[Dragavan]

I think that Canada should be entitled to the majority to the North Pole. They deserve it for being so damn.... non confrontational.

Yeah it's not like they ever encroached on our land with military forces and burned the white house down or anything.

[Vesnic]

I wonder sometimes, how much would we have to piss of Switzerland to get them to declare war on us? If world politics ever got really boring, we could all just gang up on Switzerland, and, like, dismantle their watches and bomb their banks and...eat...their chocolate. Yeah, let's take it out on Switzerland.

[JJJ-thebanisher]

Yeah it's not like they ever encroached on our land with military forces and burned the white house down or anything.

We did that in name alone. Pretty much just the british, blame them lol

[End Master]

I remember reading a small "What If" scenario about the War of 1812. It was if the US had been more aggressive in the attempt of annexing the Canadian territory.

It basically wound up with us getting the Quebec territory where in future years to come we had to deal with the headache of the Quebecers wanting to break off from the Union all the time like they do with Canada today in real life.

The US also wound up having a more "European" mindset approach to world politics.


I found the "What If" scenario for the Cuban Missile crisis a little more interesting though. But then of course nukes were involved. Several nukes.

[JJJ-thebanisher]

ROFL! Who writes these?

[End Master]

Oh that was from a short book series called "What If?" followed by "What If? 2" and "What Ifs? of American History"

Just a collection essays written about if certain events in history had turned out differently like what if Cortez failed in his conquest of the Aztecs, what if Alexander the Great died earlier than he did, etc.

As I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis one ended pretty spectacularly. Russia didn't back down and launched some nukes from Cuba, and blew up some major cities in the southern US, but at that particular time in history the US had a lot more nukes than Russia and ended up launching a shitload of them.

This basically ended up destroying all of Cuba's population and the USSR didn't fair much better. Cuba, Russia and most of Eastern Europe were reduced to radioactive wastelands, and it became known as a "Second Holocaust" and the US was accused of war crimes and committing genocide...but there wasn't too much that could be done about because well uh, the US still had the nukes after all.

The world just ended up hating the US and wanted it to give up its nukes if it wanted to be reaccepted into the international community.

An apology and a partial reduction was done, but the US didn't give up the nukes completely.

[ChubbyTeletubby]

Switzerland helped the Nazi's out in WW2, didn't they? And even after the war, Jews had a hard time regaining lost wealth to Swiss banks. Hardly a "neutral" country. (not saying the Jews didn't deserve it - which they didn't - except maybe a little)

And I do not laugh at the prospect of nuclear holocaust. You people sicken me.

HA! Just kidding.

War, just in general, is amusing. And Nuclear War? It's a God damn riot! Especially when it's overposturing gone awry by a bunch of old, dirty white guys hiding in their little dens far away from the danger, jerking each other off under a cloud of expensive cigar smoke.

The only thing funnier is like...little kids starving in Africa. Hillarious!

[End Master]

The only thing funnier than that, is little starving kids getting raped in Africa.

[xnull]

End, I just watched this documentary called "Invisible Children" which was basically just that (but more about kidnap and slavery than rape). You are right in saying it was hilarious. The description on google video even says that it's a humorous view...