Thats what they do. Current cabinets way of doing things, force.
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Am Canadian. I fully believe that within the next year he will be openly talking about invading. Within a couple of could well be done. The guerrilla war will go on for ever though, you can take Canada but you will have a very hard time keeping it.
The guerrilla war will go on for ever though
You think Canadians are going to shoot mounties and cops in meaningful numbers?
Am American. We (the broad majority) don't want Canada. or Greenland. or Venezuela. Any of this fascist shit. I'm so fucking sick of this. I want to go back to politics being boring-ish and about deciding what taxes will and won't pay for and having actual friends whom we aren't actively bullying. I wish this scenario were laughable, but it's not.
Canada and Mexico should make a mutual defense pact. Being pinched by land wars would make things much rougher for the US.
Truth. We'd have a war on two fronts without ever leaving home.
I hope our military is prepared to do something about it
Look at Ukraine, the reason they were able to stay in the fight in the early days didn't come down to military or numerical superiority or even strategic brilliance. They were not expected to be able to put up a meaningful fight and, therefore, not put up a fight..
For instance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antonov_Airport:
The warnings by the CIA and Kireyev helped the Ukrainian military to prepare for an attack on Antonov Airport.[16][19][21] Conversely, the Ukrainians did not expect a large-scale airborne assault on Antonov Airport, instead assuming that the Russians would send a small group of special forces with helicopters in the case of an invasion.[22] As a result, the airport only held a small garrison of 200–300 National Guard troops belonging to the 4th Rapid Reaction Brigade, as the remainder had been moved to the frontline in eastern Ukraine.[1][23] These troops were mostly conscripts, though there were a "handful" of professional contract soldiers; aside from a few BTRs, at least one ZU-23-2 gun, and a few 9K38 Igla man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS), the garrison was lightly equipped.[24]
The lesson is that, not only the military needs to be prepared, but you, the inhabitants of Canada, need to be prepared.
Canadian military is a fraction of the size of the US military.
If invaded, prospects are bleak for Canada. The US has a better chance of invading Canada than they do invading Detroit.
Canadian citizens should arm up but I don’t think their laws allow for it.
[We are strengthening ties with European defense] (https://www.politico.eu/article/canada-clinches-deal-to-join-europes-e150b-defense-scheme/)
Good For Canada. It's a move in the correct direction for their country. In the meantime, they're still outnumbered 30:1 in the USA of armed civilians vs. canadian military
US has lost to Canada each time they have incurred on our borders.
Deploy the mounties! Elbows up! Horses too!
Mounties, cops will all be deputized to the US side. There is no way they do the right thing when the time comes.
Nearly two thirds of Canadians aren't paying attention.
There are a lot of brain dead Albertans right now who are lining up to be completely obliterated by the US. They all think they're going to become wealthy Americans, but the US just wants their resources...not them.
They really need to do some homework on the CNMI, because that's their future as "Americans".
They think, because they're white, this won't happen...but it was never a race war, it's always been a class war.
And these people have no class.
Alberta
To begin with, much of the loud infowarrior rides are also there, trying to import MAGA garbage from south of the border, asides that some of their owners are also avoiding the IRS.
Or they fail to imagine a situation that seems unrealistic.
Or they can't come to terms with it.
Or they are delusional.
I wouldn’t run it past Trump; the guy is mentally unstable and a psychopath.
... and the American people are feckless sheep
PS: although I must recognize that, since the murder of Renee Good, it does seem that some are waking up
What actual things have happened since her killing to give you any hope of meaningful resistance in the US since then? Not (strictly) rhetorical.
To my mind, the minute the Trump regime feel the least bit threatened you'd see things like mass arrests and possibly martial law. But the American would be resistance is still holding out that the world, or the US at least, will still be there in a year so that they get to see if Trump will allow free and fair midterms.
I think it shows a strange effect about American geography. It's really hard to organize a meaningful, resilient, and camera-worthy resistance because we're so spread out. It's all about congregating at big cities, like LA, Portland or Minneapolis.
Like, if British people wanted to protest and resist in the streets, they go to London. All of them. It's accessible. Americans can't do that with Washington DC.
But I'm in Kansas City, and while our No Kings protests have had not-insignificant turnouts, it's not as easy or impactful because we had three protest cities across two-state suburban area. Can we get that many Kansas Citians to flock to Minneapolis to disrupt ICE ops? No, not really. It's why all the major protest and ICE disruptions happen in the biggest cities of the "blue"-est states.
I don't know about that, just five years ago Trump supporters managed to storm Capitol Hill – was pretty memorable and headline grabbing. Anti-Trump protestors can give whatever excuse they want for why they're not equally capable or why they wouldn't even something equally drastic, but the bottom line is that they don't. Presumably because they lack the Maga movements to take risks and not play nice.
The conflict level is simply too low. It doesn't take a million people to cause disruptions, but it takes escalation. Americans are too complacent to do that, a world war for instance are not high enough stakes – that's just another war on foreign soil, something the warrior caste will deal with.
It's simply going to take outside involvement – military and economic – to get rid of Trump.
I mean, did the Jan 6 riots accomplish anything?
And so are Canadians... yikes
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No need to invade when Alberta's government will do anything for oil money.
Can, like, Canada and Denmark invade us instead? I wouldn't have to convince my wife to move out of this shithole
Unfortunately the fix has to come from inside your own borders. You all have sacrificed way too much funding your military
I always love the duality of comments on this topic. America's military is a Schrodinger's Military at this point, both terrifying and completely non-existent basically depending on what time of day the conversation happens at.
Canadians can't help because the military is so powerful (completely obvious and understandable) but also, like somebody up above said, "Americans are feckless sheep" for not shooting up the White House yet.
Everybody's a hero until it's their life on the line.
Militaries are only as strong as the country's will to continue to fight. The US had great social upheaval for a relatively low casualty war in Vietnam (<60k dead in 8 yr). Compare the casualty rates from Vietnam with what Russia is experiencing in Ukraine (180-480k deaths in 3 yr).
I remember listening to Dan Carlin talk about how wars are typically won by the side that doesn't know when to give up. Early Rome was this way. 1941 USSR was this way. 2026 USA is NOT going to win a drawn out, existential war. We would kill a lot of people, sure, thanks to all the weapons and guns but we don't think we have what it takes to win a major power war anymore.
The Dutch can take back NY anytime.
We're waiting until the USA economy collapses under Trump's incompetence and the military refuses orders because they're not being paid. Then we leisurely walk in.
We really appreciate it man.
We would bring scary things like free wealthfare with us. And all americans were to accept it. Nonnegotiable. Almost a dictatorship like move.
Don't threaten me with a good time
Only a third?
The propaganda is working!
Soon everyone can cower to this demented administration.
Only a third? "Believe may" is a very low bar. It's like people who have "considered leaving" their job on the past year, because if you ever had a passing thought like "it might be nice to work there" you fall into that category.
What I'm saying is that this poll is useless and the article is a non-story.
You're wrong saying that it's a non-story. If you'd asked the question ten years ago, it wouldn't be a third. The news is that this possibility has been born. That's big news.
The movie Meet The Robinsons came out in 2007 and takes place in 2037. In that movie, Canada is called North Montana. I remember telling my sister about it and her saying that was ridiculous because there was basically zero chance Canada and the US would go to war within 30 years. It was seemingly completely unfeasible. Now it seems like a real possibility
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Mostly dependent on how much public attention there currently is on him being a confirmed pedophile.
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