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[-] dunestorm@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I wouldn’t run it past Trump; the guy is mentally unstable and a psychopath.

[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

... 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

[-] halferect@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

And so are Canadians... yikes

[-] shapeofthings@piefed.ca 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] tea@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Nearly two thirds of Canadians aren't paying attention.

[-] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

Canada and Mexico should make a mutual defense pact. Being pinched by land wars would make things much rougher for the US.

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Truth. We'd have a war on two fronts without ever leaving home.

[-] BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Can, like, Canada and Denmark invade us instead? I wouldn't have to convince my wife to move out of this shithole

[-] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] tea@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I hope our military is prepared to do something about it

[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

It will depend on the world's reaction when he goes for Greenland in a couple of weeks. Most probably nothing will happen so, unless americans sheeps starts a civil war (lol), he will try something on Canada for sure (he already said there's an energy / electricity crisis, that why I suspect he'll go for Quebec first). Most Canadians will probably bend over if they're offered one year of free Amazon delivery and 50% off Netflix. Ford and Smith will collaborate in exchange for being named governors.

[-] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

They can't control their southern border from people wandering in, I dunno if they can handle the largest border on earth, whether they try or not

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah. Let's say this extremely unlikely thing does happen. There's some kind of false flag attack, like a person wearing a Canadian flag does a suicide bomber attack on the US congress or something. An event that riles up Americans enough that there's enough support for an invasion of Canada that Trump could get away with it.

Now imagine the result of invading a country where almost none of the locals want you there, and all of the locals can pass for Americans. European countries might be too cowardly to actually send their armies against the US for doing that. But, they would almost certainly find a way to fund and train Canadian freedom fighters. The Canadian / American border is completely indefensible. It's simply too big to ever be properly guarded.

So, you'd have Canadians slipping into the US easily, they'd be trained and armed by Europeans, Australians, Japanese, Koreans, and all the other former US allies. And, once in the states they'd have no problem finding support networks to help them attack American targets.

Just because Trump would be insane to try this doesn't mean he wouldn't do it. With their massive propaganda networks in place, they might get a fair number of Americans to support it, at least at first. But, the most they could ever hope for is a Pyrrhic victory.

[-] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

That's how I see it too, I'm not going to assume they won't try, but I'm not so sure of the success if it goes that way

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately, even if they didn't succeed, it would be horrible for everybody involved, especially the invaded country. Trump is definitely the type who would wipe Winnipeg off the map if some Winnipegger killed someone important.

[-] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, of that I have no doubt of either

Wouldn't NATO defend against the US invading Canada so US would have to fight against themselves.

[-] TaTTe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Cute of you to think the US still respects any laws.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The USA is becoming an enemy of NATO and would sooner attack its traditional allies than defend them. And it's looking like the rest of NATO may just chicken out if the USA attacks a NATO member state. We really need a new defensive pact between Europe and other countries in the Americas, particularly Mexico and Canada, independent of the USA. But the USA is aggressive and militarily stronger, so it's a bad situation.

[-] Virtvirt588@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It was a pact made with the devil from the start. This is what happens when the USA gets constantly sucked up to because they are the "powerhouse" of the world. The problems where already obvious due to the flawed way everything is centralized towards this country.

As the point stands, the leaders of other countries are to scared to stand their ground against fascist trump. Of course this may change, but the thing is; signs of inadequacy where there from early on, it's just that only a select few really seemed to care about it.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] hector@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago

Also I really do not see the US invading canada. It's too large, it's like invading russia.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Its large but the Canadians are mostly concentrated in pockets near the border.

[-] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

90% south of the northernmost part of the continental united states, international falls, minnesota.

[-] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Mostly dependent on how much public attention there currently is on him being a confirmed pedophile.

[-] GaryGhost@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Until about a year ago I would have said that therea no way our people in the military would cooperate. Now with seeing ice do all this heinous shit, yeah our military might actually do it

[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Britain and France should work together to give a fully equipped nuclear sub to Canada. My country is turning to shit and everyone needs to build nukes to protect themselves from it.

[-] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

With this fucker in power nukes wouldn't help. He'll just gaslight his cult into thinking his farts protect them from radiation and they start nuking other countries themselves

[-] CircaV@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

My dude-after the very first threats Trudeau (who was still PM then) went immediately and directly to France to borrow some subs no doubt. France is now sending troops to Greenland. Shit is serious.

[-] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

No need to invade when Alberta's government will do anything for oil money.

[-] citizensongbird@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Okay, here's what's actually happening since nobody seems to get the picture.

The Arctic has been melting in recent years, opening up areas that were never accessible before for resource extraction (oil, minerals). This is also why nobody is doing shit about global warming, because the opportunity for profit is too huge.

Canada has claimed ownership over the Arctic and its resources. Greenland/Denmark has claimed ownership as well. America has claimed these areas are in international waters and not ownable by anybody, so it's a free for all. But they know that's a weak position.

If USA takes Greenland, they take the Arctic. That's it, that's all.

Bonus: it's a distraction from Trump's name being all over the Epstein files. Although I'm not sure why he cares so much; his supporters certainly don't. Like he said, he could rape a child in the middle of 5th avenue and he wouldn't lose any votes.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

He also wants Greenland so he can cut off Europe's access to Canada

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