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You're right about Canada. I debated whether to include that point, but being Canadian myself, it felt wrong not to mention it.
Saying "peace out or I'll nuke you" is literally the simplest possible way to start a war. You can't just walk into a building waving around a gun and expect things not to escalate. We're lucky things happened to work out the way they did.