The 'Elephant' in the Room
as her roommate in the Army saw it
was why young Canadian soldiers would risk
their lifes,bodies and souls
to defend a piece of foreign
real estate for a neighbouring country whose
three hundred million citizens had been unable
with their much larger
human military
to prevent the
collapse and loss of their
lands.
Vicky's army friend knew that Canada
with a population of
only
thirty eight million and a Canadian Armed Forces
essentially equipped
with 'peashooters'
had seen the sense of taking the
much more favourable
terms the mythical creatures had
offered to nations that had
surrendered early.
The US Army hadn't accepted those easier
deals and now its human population
was facing the consequences of waving the
Red ,White and Blue for another
three years of
bloody pointless battles
that had only served to
enfuriate the mythical creatures
and leave them in foul mood when the
Surrender or Die Treaty
had been grudging offered
to the American Army.
That last ditch effort to defend Alaska had
made no sense for the American
soldiers
beyond a little suicidal flag waving.
For the Canadian soldiers who had volunteered
to join their American
brethren it had made
even less sense
since there had been that
older Canadian-Mythical
Treaty of 2028
Vicky's friend mulled over the matter
and had a wild thought
perhaps it was NOT Alaska the Canadians had defended
BUT something that lay
north of it
in the icy waters
something of value to
'Everyone'
In other words a
Dirty Ops Spook operation of some sort.
Slightly weirder
maybe the Canadian soldiers had been there
to keep the American soldiers and the Mythical soldiers apart
Double Agents