by GWYNNE DYER
As far back as the 1930s, for example, the United States maintained and updated plans for the invasion of Canada — and the Canadian military made plans to pre-empt the invasion.
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The United States could “win” by dropping hundreds of nuclear weapons on Iran’s military bases, nuclear facilities and industrial centers and killing 5 to 10 million people, but short of that, nothing works.
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