Canada 'will stand up to a bully', says Mark Carney

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There are plenty of people in the US cheering for harsh retaliation, too. Despite being directly harmed by it.

This man is going out of his way to hurt everyone he can regardless, and everyone who can do anything here is just sitting down, shutting up, and obeying in advance.

I am glad that other countries are ready and willing to to hit this bully back. Seems like the best hope we have is from people on the outside.

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Screw 15%. Put it to 25% right now, and on 18 February Trump will have to choose between a 25% increase in oil prices or a 35% increase if he goes through with adding the 10% tariff.

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Canada won't willingly be part of the US. If the US invades Canada, it would be the end of the US.

The US gets boners over their military tech, but they weren't able to successfully occupy Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. Canada is bigger than those countries, and this would not be an overseas war where they can just go home when they fail. Americans don't have the willpower to succeed with a long drawn out occupation. They freak the fuck out over a few drones in New Jersey, they obviously wouldn't be able to handle a war on the North American continent involving drones flying over them carrying explosives and searching for targets. And that's just the tip of the iceberg of what a US war with Canada would be like.

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All of these guys are stupid really. It would've made sense for Pollievre to not push for no confidence and just wait until October where he'd be up against Trudeau and probably win. But he got his way and Trudeau resigned. Now is he going to force an election in the winter where he's running against a stronger candidate? Last election the Liberals took a big hit in the polls from calling an unscheduled election. How many points will Pollievre lose if he makes a winter election happen?

Pollievre went all-in on US style politics and it's wearing thin. Running endless ads outside of a campaign has made people sick and tired of him. When his US brethren tank the economy people might question whether being "anti-woke" is sound economic policy.

It's still his election to lose, but it seems he's doing everything possible to make that happen.

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Probably has more to do with her being in the pocket of the oil industry.

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Canada should join the EU.

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"Why don't you want to join the land of the free and home of the brave?"

Because of we have in to the pressure and joined, we would be neither.

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His other big problem is that he's just not very likeable. People hate Trudeau, so they were willing to side with anyone who would get him out. But with Trudeau gone voters are now faced with the fact that they really don't much like Pollievre either.

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I'm cheering for harsh retaliation because it's the only language the orange man will understand. If the economy has to collapse for us to have any chance of getting Americans to ditch their support of fascism, well we've already fucked up a million times to get this far so we'll have to struggle through it.

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I disagree, meal team six would make short work of any Canadian bacon, thus starving the Canadians into submission

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Imagine fighting a resistance that can just cross over the border and perfectly blend in with your population. It's madness to even suggest it even if they weren't important allies.

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As if the Australian ScoMo wasn't bad enough, now there's two of them...

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Troop morale would be incredibly low, too. I would be pissed if I somehow got drafted to invade Canada. It’d be like something out of a cartoon.

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Plus, it’d suck for at least four months a year

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Make US thirteen colonies again?

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The EU as a structure is such that some piss drops like Orban can stall its reaction to events long enough to make it useless.

But! A new no-bullshit world confederation would be nice. With a combined military, of course.

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Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq etc are vastly different to the US itself in culture and language and everything.

A lot of misfortune was due to that.

Canada isn't.

Anyway, I don't think your idea of power balance here is right. Canada's defense is basically a module of US defense.

Things about blending in and such, in our age of street cameras and computing power far more than needed, are just childish.

US absolutely can anschluss Canada, the question is why, because strategically it already gets from it everything it would provide as a state.

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economy has to collapse

This may have unexpected consequences.

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If y'all want to burn the white house down again, I'll bring marshmallows for us to roast on the flames.

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I'd rather they burn down Mar-a-lago. The White House is a nice historic building.

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Canada 'will stand up to a bully', says Mark Carney