Add in be are protected by oceans on two sides. I don’t see a war in Canada happening and while there is instability in Latin America and civil/dirty wars like you said it’s never really close by. We’ve kept Mexico stable to make sure of that. 

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Volunteer searching for WWII dead unearth remains of hundreds in Okinawa's caves

War is hell. Every time I hear people talk of it in our world I think of how removed they seem to be from what it is like. People in the US at least seem to take it very lightly. Probably because our culture glorifies it and we never paid as steep of a cost vs other nations. It's so senseless and is the main reason I oppose the state. 