♪ ♫ And the White House burned, burned, burned. And we're the one's that did it. It burned, burned, burned, While the president ran and cried ♪ ♫

Half the country is being torn down at this point... I've honestly never seen any country do so much damage to itself without any gain whatsoever. Only Trump himself (and perhaps some of his friends) seem to have gained anything at all...

Although, I guess it does kind of have old school Russia vibes now I think about it.

It will still be fun, just not as satisfying

As an American who knows my own country's history...

You have no idea how much I love citing that entire war as an example of how military adventurism can be very bad and stupid, and also an example of / push off point to go into how Canadians tend to significantly punch above their weight in basically all military conflicts they've been involved in.

Yeah, sit down GI Joe, lemme tell about the time we got our asses handed to us and lost nearly (or just actually?) every single land campaign of that entire war... to the Canadians.

(Or at least their forebearers, if we must be pedantic.)

Lemme tell ya about how US special forces came about as a collaborative effort of largely US and Canadians sharing notes during/after WW2.

Lemme tell you about how their standard issue infantry weapons are basically no bullshit, more reliable and rugged and practical versions of what we use.

When the Canadian ceases being polite, know that you have fucked up royally.

The USA "won" the War of 1812 the same way it won the American War of Independence, paying to maintain control wasn't worth the gains of maintaining control.

America or a stalemate depending on how you look at it. The stated goals were achieved, the end of impressment of American sailors by the British ~~slavers~~ Navy, international recognition of American sovereignty, and an end to trade restrictions by the British (so in short to get the British to accept that America was independent and would stay that way, get over it)

Now, the reality is that they really just wanted to annex Canada, the stated goals while justified were secondary to that and that obviously failed.

The war ended with no territory changing hands but with the major American diplomatic demands being met. Aka, victory, if not the one they really wanted.

The British Empire.

Do you think 1812 is a footnote and not one of the major wars taught in American history? It's a footnote to British history, sure, as a side theatre of the Napoleonic Wars but it was a war that could have ended America and it's taught as such, sometimes explicitly as a continuation of the segments on the Revolution.