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Invasion of Canada doesn't need much military. It's just a fact.
Lemme guess, it would only be a 3 day special military operation? 🙄
Where have I heard this before?... I'm sure I've heard that before. Hmm, can't think of where tho. Starts with an R I think, leaders name starts with a P, but gosh darn it i just can't think of it. Oh well.
Rwanda and their president Paul Kagame?
No, I dont think so. Good guess tho. I'll think of it later I'm sure.
I think you need to read about what the Canadian military did in WW1 and why that is one of the reasons the Geneva Conventions exist.
Maybe it's best not to piss off Canada.
Crippling Canada’s military would be relatively easy. Holding the country would be absolutely impossible. It’s enormous geographically and occupation requires around 20 to 25 soldiers per thousand residents.
We would have to dedicate a cool million soldiers for the 40 million residents of Canada. The US had only 450k-ish army members in 2023, so that would be difficult.
Not to mention triggering Article 5 for the rest of NATO and shattering every defense agreement at once. You know, Putin's wet dream.
If there's going to be a world war, I'd prefer to not be on the side of Russia and China.
On the side of China? Their side is is sitting it all out and letting the U.S. and Russia devour themselves while picking up all the trade deals, currency holdings and eventually all the economical losses that will make it the strongest economy I'm the world by far. What do they have to do? Keep giving a nudge here or there, and watching egomaniacs devour their fellow citizens and the citizens eventually fight back to regain their freedoms. China wins every time Trump opens his mouth. But I don't feel they are on the side at all, just happily enjoying the little puppeting they need to do.
The US is basically China now. Xi remains in power because he convinced the Chinese people that China needs a strong man to run the economy and protect them from the evil foreigners. Trump has done the same. They're both corporate socialist countries now.
There is one big difference and no, China is not "sitting things out." A lot of the brouhaha over Greenland stems from China trying to use soft power to gain influence there. As they've done in Panama. Soft power means spending money and Trump's too simple minded to understand the concept of spending money to gain influence. So US soft power doesn't exist anymore which is why Trump can only make threats. It's the only lever he has because he doesn't know anything about the other levers. Of course his threats only further destroys US soft power, but Trump (along with most Americans) simply can't understand the concept so they see that as good thing. Hell they're trying to shut down USAID entirely, should be an indication they don't understand it at all.
China very much understands soft power and is using it everywhere. So that's what we have to look forward to... Chinese soft power being met with threats from Donald Trump.
You guys are so enamoured with Nazis you forget Vietnam.
Previous losers willing to kill millions for a win.
And Afghanistan. Which definitely happened during their lifetime.
Didn't they and Britain burn down the white house in the war of 1812? They seemed pretty fierce in WWII. As an American, I suggest we not fuck around, lest we find out. I'm much happier with Canada as ally, thank you very much. From wikipedia:
An occupation will. And the US has an extremely bad track record with occupations. That's just a fact.
You go on counting troops and getting boners when warplanes fly over sports arenas, while Canadians are figuring out how many strategic targets in the US are within drone range. This wouldn't be an overseas war where you just need to tell someone in uniform some bullshit "thank you for your service" remark and that would be your only exposure to it. It would be a guerilla war on the North American continent, and your dear leader is gutting the FBI's counter intelligence capabilities.
Found Putin's fedi account. 3 days to Ottawa, eh? Will work just like the last one, eh?
Pffft, like we'd believe that Ottawa is the capital of Canada. On to Toronto!
We would probably surrender and then work diplomatically to regain independence or some other-outcome that would be better than blowing our neighbours up.
What do you mean we? We literally cannot cede to a foreign power without a unanimous vote, which will never happen. You desperately need to read our charter of ~~rights and freedoms~~, if you actually are Canadian.
E: see below for where it actually came from, I'm a wee bit daft.
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms itself does not mention a requirement for unanimous consent. However, the Constitution Act, 1982, in Section 41, outlines the "unanimity formula," which requires unanimous consent from all provinces and both Houses of Parliament for constitutional amendments related to specific matters, such as changes to the office of the Monarch, the composition of the Supreme Court, or the amendment process itself[3][4].
Citations: [1] Unanimous Consent - House of Commons Procedure and Practice ... https://www.ourcommons.ca/procedure-book-livre/en/document?sbdid=37461d8b-10dc-48a4-99a8-8a843ba16e8a&sbpid=72cb21d4-6a4c-4343-a388-496b5b293b21 [2] Unanimous Consent - The Process of Debate - House of Commons https://www.ourcommons.ca/procedure/procedure-and-practice-3/ch_12_5-e.html [3] Amendments to the Constitution of Canada - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amendments_to_the_Constitution_of_Canada [4] THE CONSTITUTION ACTS 1867 to 1982 - Laws.justice.gc.ca https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-13.html [5] Amending Formula - Centre for Constitutional Studies https://www.constitutionalstudies.ca/2019/07/amending-formula/ [6] Charterpedia - Section 1 – Reasonable limits - Department of Justice https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/rfc-dlc/ccrf-ccdl/check/art1.html [7] Guide to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - Canada.ca https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/how-rights-protected/guide-canadian-charter-rights-freedoms.html [8] The Notwithstanding Clause of the Charter - Library of Parliament https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsite/default/en_CA/ResearchPublications/201817E
Damn I'm blind huh. Thank you for the correction.