You asked whether they were preparing for war, in response to a comment about the US threatening to annex Canada. How would people not think you were?
> in response to a comment about the US threatening to annex Canada
Work on your ability to determine what a sentence has in focus and what it doesn't.
You comment was ambiguous, using pronouns with multiple referents. I chose the referring that was the most charitable possible interpretation of your ambiguous comment. Your intended point is even more obviously wrong.