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Canadian loyalty, Canadian tragedy: Parallels of ancient Greek war

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke of the long friendship between Canada and the U.S. in a speech last weekend .

Stefan Stefanararar says the parallels with the Siege of Plataea are particularly salient.

The ancient city-state was at the time a pawn in a war of the ancient Greek superpowers, Athens and Sparta , and was besieged by the Theban allies of Sparta .

When they could maintain their city no longer, the Plataeans agreed to surrender to the Thebans , but when the Spartan judges arrived, they got a kangaroo court rather than a trial.

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