Joy Reid is Dumb, Dumb, Dumb.

The Left's Favorite Homophobe and Racist Keeps Upping the Bar on Insanity

By Chuck Warren

Oh, Joy. You are at it again.

Today, in an interview with perpetual victim card holder Don Lemon, prominent military strategist Joy Reid has advised that the United States should not go to war with Canada because, wait for it... we will lose!

(This is your cue to crack open your beer, soda, or drink of choice and continue reading.)

Here are the arguments she could use: Canada is a friendly neighbor; Canada is an ally; Our economies are intertwined, and such a war will be bad for the U.S. economy; We should not just invade someone because we want their land; etc.

All these arguments are plausible, but of course, she reached for the dumbest one—one that almost makes you want to go to war with Canada just to prove how stupid she is.

What’s her analysis? First, because most of Canada is ice and uninhabited, and the Nazis lost to the Russians because of winter. Second, because we lost the War of 1812 against Canada.

First things first. Nazis fought in the winter, but they never fought in uninhabited land. Who is America fighting in northern Canada exactly, since there’s nothing there?

Second, we didn’t lose the War of 1812. They burned the White House, but then they moved on to their actual target in Baltimore, where they had their bottoms handed to them by the Americans. Four months later, Andrew Jackson killed or captured a quarter of the British forces in New Orleans, effectively ending any British threat to America. The best way to explain the result of the war is a draw.

Speaking of the British forces, we never actually fought a war with Canada because Canada didn’t exist in 1812. We fought the British military, which included colonists in Canada. But we were fighting the might of the British navy and economy, in addition to the Canadian natives.

We were outmatched by the British. They had a larger population—about 14 million, including colonies like Canada and Australia — compared to 8 million U.S. population. The economic data from the time are not available to assess how much, but the British economy was then significantly larger than the U.S. economy. Also, the British had been an empire for centuries, while America was a young country, meaning that the British had greater depth in their knowledge of military affairs, experience in warfare, and military-industrial base.

It's a miracle that Americans didn’t lose the War of Independence, and it’s just as much a miracle that we did not lose the War of 1812.

Compare that to now.

Canada’s population is approximately 40 million, about 1/8 of the U.S. population. Its GDP is $2 trillion (Texas alone is $2.6 trillion), which is about 1/14 of the U.S. economic output. It has advanced military equipment, to be sure. The problem is that they buy most of it from the U.S., and I highly doubt that we will be selling F-35s and cruise missiles to Canada if we go to war with them.

Oh, also, we have nuclear weapons.

Simply put, everything good Canada has, we have too—but we also have many advanced weapons that we haven’t shared with anyone.

Oh, by the way, Canadian officers mostly come to America to study at our universities. So, even intellectually, we are the feeder nation, which means we have better strategists in our military.

One of the greatest generals in history was Hannibal. During the Second Punic War, he faced the Roman army. There were about 86,000 Romans, and he had 50,000 men on his side. In the end, Hannibal killed somewhere between 60,000 to 80,000 Romans in the Battle of Cannae, losing only 6,000 to 8,000 men of his own. It was the deadliest single day of war—and entirely one-sided—for 2,000 years.

But how did the war end? Yeah, the Romans won in the end because they were richer, had more money, and were technologically more advanced. And as much as I like our neighbors to the north, I don’t see a Hannibal among them—and even Hannibal wouldn’t be enough.

Now, none of this is meant to argue that going to war with Canada would be a good idea—that would be very bad. Besides being unacceptable, no American wants it except some writer in Hollywood. All I mean to say is that Joy Reid, who went to Harvard, is really stupid!

Sadly, another below-par Harvard graduate who is a stain on that university's once-impenetrable reputation.

P.S.—By the way, Don Lemon, seriously, do you not push back against her nonsense? Do you not have the mental honesty to give her a brief history lesson?

Note: the opinions expressed herein are those of Chuck Warren only and not his co-host Sam Stone or Breaking Battlegrounds’ staff.