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Several White House officials revealed to NBC News that President Donald Trump is growing increasingly “worried” over Canada regarding its ability to defend its borders, with one official saying that Trump’s concern stems from his “vision of ‘solidifying’ the Western Hemisphere,” the outlet reported Sunday.

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[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

Fafo. I know if they try to take Canada I along with alot of other Canadians will go full insurgent. Honestly we need to shut the border like we did with COVID. Y'all wanna play then none of you can visit.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately the NSA has probably seen your comment and you will be abducted or bombed before their invasion truly begins.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 28 minutes ago

Jokes on them I'm behind 7 proxies

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago
[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

You wanna laugh?

travel.gc.ca still classifies the USA as "take normal security precautions"

https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/united-states

Actually, that's not funny. What the fuck is the government of Canada waiting for? We're basically Austria in 1937.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

Same. I'm not even patriotic but I will get rid of all the shit I've built up to do this.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

1940s France is our best bet.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That hardly recommends itself as a defensive strategy.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Actually, France had a very strong army at the time. Two points here:

  • when Hitler moved troops in the demilitarized zone, French president hesitated, but he didn't move. Apparently, Hitler took a big gambit as he thought that the French army could have defeated him then and there (no certainty but very possible)
  • Germany conquered France very fast but lost half of its tanks and one third of its planes in the process. It was quick, but it was mostly brutal on both sides.

So, unfortunately, a serie of terrible decisions allowed Hitler's Germany victory: an inadapted defense, and a reluctance to attack.

Main issue for Canada as for most of European countries willing to "defend Greenland": US made equipment and systems: either you have a strong stock of spare parts, or we won't stand long. And that's without counting the basic volume advantage of the US military, and that's without counting the prevalence of US cloud based services everywhere in industry and government agencies.