The thing about being a big organization is that you need to have slack capacity most of the time in order to be able to go quickly in a different direction at certain times. If you don’t have excess capacity sitting idle, an unforeseen event can paralyze you

The population of Canada has only recently surpassed the population of California. Annexing the blue states would be a big meal for Canada to digest

Russia does not recognize our borders in the Arctic. They have rival claims to the Arctic Ocean

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/russia-arctic-ocean-canada-united-nations-continental-shelf-1.5983289

Is the post-1993 thing NATO stepping in to stop genocide in Yugoslavia?