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The US drew up a plan to invade Canada in 1930. Now Trump is reviving old fears

27 janvier 2026 à 13:00

Now the US is vying regional dominance, experts point to War Plan Red as proof its Canadian allyship has always been flimsy

First, American forces would strike with poison gas munitions, seizing a strategically valuable port city. Soldiers would sever undersea cables, destroy bridges and rail lines to paralyze infrastructure. Major cities on the shores of lakes and rivers would be captured in order to blunt any civilian resistance.

The multipronged invasion would rely on ground forces, amphibious landing and then mass internments. According to the architects of the plan, the attack would be short-lived and the besieged country would fall within days.

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© Photograph: FPG/Getty Images

© Photograph: FPG/Getty Images

© Photograph: FPG/Getty Images

‘The land will be left as ashes’: why Patagonia’s wildfires are almost impossible to stop

27 janvier 2026 à 13:00

Funding cuts, conspiracy theories and ‘powder keg’ pine plantations have seen January’s forest fires tear through Chubut in southern Argentina

Lucas Chiappe had known for a long time that the fire was coming. For decades, the environmentalist had warned that replacing native trees in the Andes mountain range with highly flammable foreign pine was a recipe for disaster.

In early January, flames raced down the Pirque hill and edged closer to his home in the Patagonian town of Epuyén, Argentina, where he had lived since the 1970s. Thirty people with six motor pumps fought for hours, hoses stretched for kilometres, but “there was no way”.

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© Photograph: Maxi Jonas/Reuters

© Photograph: Maxi Jonas/Reuters

© Photograph: Maxi Jonas/Reuters

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