Donald Trump is not joking about making Canada the 51st state, Justin Trudeau warns in hot mic comments

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

One of those GTAs prepares you for war much better than the other one.

[t_chalco@lemmy.world]

Can we get a hint?

[dicjacobus@lemmy.world]

After 20 million scared civilians are neutralized and pacified.... it will look like a fait accompli.
and then will come the car bombs, the mass shootings, the assassination's.

The only thing stupider than Russia invading Ukraine and expecting not to deal with a massive insurgency. Two countries that are culturally very close but had extremely bad history with each other as a cycle of abuse, is America trying to do the same thing with Canada,

Treachery is according to the divine comedy, the worst sin of all. Canada doesn't have the boon of bordering other allies trying to help them in an imperialist war from their supposed brothers. but being stabbed in the back will sure motivate people to do things they wouldnt dream of against people they used to call friends. Yes, I'm referring to the "T" word.

also. theres no way Canada gets attacked, and it doesn't cause a revolution or coup in the US. The first moves into Canada, would effectively be the first moves of a 2nd Civil War.

[ikidd@lemmy.world]

I live in rural AB and I'd be surprised if 1 person in 10 had anything good to say about trump. Most people know that he's a lying shitbird, and want nothing to do with him. And frankly Danielle Smith is sliding fast since her toadying reaction to his tariff threats.

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

This is the main reason I'm sure that a hot war is not going to happen.

Picture how chaotic and dysfunctional the US was in the latter years of the Vietnam war, and that was at least theoretically a war against the great evil "Communism", when the people being killed were "Gooks", who were barely human (at least according to racist propaganda).

Any war on Canada would probably start with maybe 30% support, and only go down from there. Could you even trust American soldiers to follow orders and kill Canadians? Probably some would obey, definitely not all. At a minimum, many would be shooting to miss, rather than carefully aiming.

As soon as Canada was attacked, you'd have Canadians streaming across the largest land border in the world into the US to engage in guerilla warfare -- think the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland, except with much less of a difference in accent. They'd probably be joined by plenty of Americans too.

And, while the US military is very experienced, the US public hasn't had to deal with war on their territory since the Civil War, generations ago.

I won't discount the possibility that the US drums up support for a war by staging a false flag attack or something. But, even with that, I think a majority of the US wouldn't want to risk American lives trying to kill Canadians.

[commander@lemmings.world]

Good. I'd like to see Canada and Mexico become parts of the US.

[commander@lemmings.world]

This is what I'm saying.

It would be worse for canadians, but better for Americans which would make things better for both in the long run.

[commander@lemmings.world]

No you wouldn't.

[farceofwill@infosec.pub]

Not to disrespect the amazing achievements of the Finn's in that war, but they lost, and lost half their country.

Incredible job not to lose the whole thing ofc.

[fedizen@lemmy.world]

Only a crazy person would trade decent healthcare for the right for every idiot man child to buy a gun. Its a horrific deal for canadians.

[mangoholic@lemmy.ml]

So they invade canada and its world war 3? All nato alliey against the us which is like 80% of nato, that doesn't look good.

[takapapatapaka@lemmy.world]

Youre talking about countries. I do not care abouy contries. Bombs do not protect people, guns do not protect people.

Killing peoples with guns in third world country to avoid killing with bombs in eu/na is not a win. Getting bombs or guns just temporarily deflects the violence on someone else. The day everyone has bombs, wars wont stop.

You cannot want a safe world for people and want bombs at the same time. It is only viable if you think abouy nations instead of people, but who cares?