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> Canada is the most overrated of all the developed countries

You're also a politically stable energy and resource exporter bang next to a global economic superpower and security guarantor. Oh, and access to two oceans and soon a third.

Canada has plenty of problems. But it's also tremendously blessed.

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What's funny is that if we substitute Canada with Russia in your comment, every word of it still holds true.

I suppose "stable" and "stagnant" are two sides of the same coin.

Yeah, Russia is Chinas Canada

What an insane take

The US does not make a cultural claim to any part of Canada, except possibly jokingly Alberta, which might actually be "Alberta jokingly makes a threat to secede to the US" (the US does not really want alberta and its disgustingly sulfurous oil).

China is constantly threatening to invade the Russian far east and retake haishenwai

It’s a joke

That is the tragic part about Russia. They don't need to be Chinas Canada. They have all the protentional in the world play nice in the world sandbox and prosper.

Calling China Russia's security guarantor is a stretch at best. The military difference between the two, while growing, is no where near the difference between the USA and Canada.

I would argue Russia's nuclear arsenal is a far more reliable guarantor of their security then China would ever be.

Also has China ever claimed to be Russia’s security guarantor?

The US and Canada, if nothing else, are both in NATO.

Russia are frenemies at best. They are allies today, but they have fought border skirmishes in recent times, and they are worried about Chinese moving to and eventually taking over the Russian Far East

Likely the reason it doesn't need to accomplish much more to be a good place to live

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