Want to gauge the size of the 51st state ? Look at a map of Canadian rail. Chop off two northern lines, a Quebec line and you can see the newest longest state. Unlike Finland/Suomi, we lack northern rail in Kanada. Forget Greenland. Look at Baffin and Ellesmere Islands. Huge. In my lifetime the USA threatened to take the high Arctic, as displaced Cree from Hudson's Bay know. And me, whose ancestors actually in writing on paper founded Manitoba and TWO northwest American states ( yes, Métis from Red River and from Rainy River and from ... ) and as a founding people of Canada, victims of western rail expansion that created Kanada and finally ended the buffalo hunt definitively, absolutely, we will get rail-roaded. No state can be bigger than Texas, so do the geometry ... the state with the longest border bordering the most other states. World's longest skinniest state. Like a snake. And giant Kansas City Canadian Pacific rail ? It will finally swallow up CN, happily Amerikan. GO trains ? Gone. St Lawrence Seaway ? Drumphf Kanal.
Just watch Washington State take Vancouver Island, and Alaska take the Queen Charlotte Islands and more. Yukon. Americans are looking at Mercator Maps and seeing HUGE northern expanses. Big just like Siberia, right?
I thought the UK was the 51st state? Or was that Israel? Or Turkey? I thought that Ukraine was the 51st state for a while back there... but Zelensky started selling patriot missile launchers on the black market to fund his drug addiction and new luxury yacht, so daddy Trump took his toys away. Damn, it's really hard to keep up these days.
Bit of interesting geography trivia I heard once: The eastern side of Canada is closer to England than it is to the western side of Canada.
