Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-4843137-20140519231050/@comment-32656-20141229112029

Yeah, it becoming a second language there is all but a given. Question of when, not if.

Though if you think that Canada is "bilingual" you are sadly mistaken. Outside of southern Quebec and nearby areas of Ontario and New Brunswick, there is simply very little truth to that. Much of the country would, if given the chance, drop the idea in a heartbeat.

Cartels lost much of their customers, and supply networks. They are basically gone.

No chance of them going to war, realistically. And even if they did, sure as heck would not be nuclear. More like Brits versus France in the 1700s - ANZC can't beat them on land, but the SAC can't beat them at sea. More or less friendly rivals, if you would. Would not merge in any form, however.

As for nuclear war... not only does no one have the stomach for it, but the nuclear powers don't have the ability, realistically, to do anything long-range. The majority of states with anything nuclear have either tactical nukes, or ones that they have "rigged" from old warheads. Most everything else is bomber-based at this point. Though, I do know of at least one place that is working on them, and a couple that have built them since DD on some level.

Canada will take back much of its former territory, but... far from all of it. You are going to see significant chunks out of it in Ontario, BC, the Yukon, Quebec, and probably Manitoba. Toronto will take much longer than that to get to said point - more like 2120s - and as for Superior, the Treaty of Manchester more or less prohibits that. That Superior would have to move through the southwestern Ontario city-states - some of which are closer in strength to Superior than you think - to do it just reinforces that.

Yeah, Japan is definitely going to stay like that for a while. That it took the earthquake/meltdown for them to come out at all in a meaningful way and even then they debated it, means a lot.

They could "tell" all they wanted - would only make it worse.