I don't want to give Mr. Banker too much benefit of the doubt, but it's also possible that there's a lot of shit getting said to us from The Burger Reich behind the scenes that the public is not privy to. I mean, if Trump's willing to threaten us with annexation publicly, I wouldn't want to know what kind of shit they say in private behind closed doors.

I guess with Carney's recent trip to China we might start to hear some more public statements from the Burgerlanders. I dunno. But barring us developing a nuke, or hosting Chinese missiles on our territory aimed directly at Washington DC, I don't know what other effective deterrent we could possibly have that would allow us to navigate our own independent foreign policy.

After all, we're very explicitly part of the Donroe Doctrine now.