Lebensraum.
Lebensraum.
Speed running the nazi playbook.
Sometimes I can't believe how domesticated USians are.
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Let's all become vassal states of Orange land.
... Oh wait, yeah, hard pass.
I'm pretty sure that Canadians wouldn't mind closer ties to the Netherlands.
As a Canadian, we should strongly consider Dutch unification.
Schengen zone membership and EU passports yes please.
Canadians wouldn't mind closer ties to most of the world. Right now the US and Israel are among those countries that most Canadians probably would like to move away from.
During WW2 Canada sheltered the Dutch royal family and declared the hospital where princess Margriet was born to be Dutch soil. We could just declare the whole rest of country to be Dutch...
To this day every year the Netherlands send millions of tulip bulbs to Ottawa as a thank you that are used for a lovely flower festival in the city.
Yes, 't Kikkerland can always do with more friends and allies, but technically 't Huis van Oranje became extinct several centuries ago 😇
As for the Orange in charge at Canada's southern border, not so much.
Nobody calls the Netherlands "'t Kikkerland".
That's why it's "Huis van Oranje-Nassau", not "Huis van Oranje".Please don't misrepresent my country like this.
The other person was simply correct: Netherlands 🧡 Canada.
As a result of my heritage, I lived in Nederland for 14 years. It was referred to frequently as 't Kikkerland. The first language I learnt was Dutch.
As somebody who actually lives in the Netherlands, born and raised.
The only version of "kikkerland" we use is when we reference ourselves as a small country, like in our "klein kikkerlandje".
I'm guessing that I'm at least few decades older than you and language has evolved. I haven't lived in Nederland since 1990, but I went to primary, secondary and university there.
Whilst you might not refer to it as 't Kikkerland, travel away from your home and you'll discover plenty of people who still refer to it like that, with fondness and good memories.
In my case, the memory comes with a song:
Western countries are already vassals of the US.