... What artificial facade? Canada has a history as a country of brutal soldiers. For us the Geneva Convention is more of a checklist. We're very polite: Surrendering Germans got a bullet to the head as a thank you.

We had such a bad reputation the government shut down the Canadian Airborne Regiment (Our equivalent of the Marines) and pivoted us into a peacekeeping role to change perceptions.

We have upcoming trade renegotiations, and pissing off the orange turd before they start just isn't in the cards. We'll support international efforts in a way that doesn't piss off our brother to the south.