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I don't know if you've been paying attention, but the head of the USA has threatened on numerous occasions to invade Canada.

by mig39 11mo ago

tick_tock_tick 11mo ago
I mean yeah we've famously even had full on invasion war plans drawn up in the past that leaked. Canada isn't going to do anything that changes the USA's ability to steam roll over the country.
- rogerrogerr 11mo ago
  Yep - the US is bad at fighting insurgencies, but a state military? Over in days. This does not materially change between Canada’s current military vs 5x their current military. But fighting pissed-off indigenous Canadians? I wouldn’t sign up for that part. None of this is relevant because the US does not want to own Canada.
  - mig39 11mo ago
    > None of this is relevant because the US does not want to own Canada. Why does your president keep saying the opposite?
    - rogerrogerr 11mo ago
      He says stuff. If you haven’t figured out by now that the stuff he says and the stuff he does are different, I dunno what to tell you.
  - amrocha 11mo ago
    I don’t know why you would think the US military would succeed this time when the last time it was successful in a large scale war was 80 years ago.
    - rogerrogerr 11mo ago
      When was the last time it was fighting a nation-state controlled, uniformed army?
      - amrocha 11mo ago
        You wouldn’t bet on a horse that can’t even run faster than dogs to actually win its real race in 80 years, would you?
- pyuser583 11mo ago
  Canada's plan was to encourage the US to invade, so the British Navy could attack the US from the Caribbean. The US would get bogged down in the icy Canadian winter, while the Royal Navy took the Eastern seaboard, Mississipi river, and Panama. The American plan was to throw everything we had at Canada, so it was probably a very good plan. I don't think it would work anymore. More practically - in the aftermath of the 1812 War, the US and British North America agreed to demilitarize the border. During WWII, this was preventing mobilization in the Great Lakes region, and Canada proposed undoing the treaty. The US diplomat in charge felt the treaty had historical value and should be kept in tact. So the US-Canadian border is very demilitarized, by design.
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I don't know if you've been paying attention, but the head of the USA has threatened on numerous occasions to invade Canada.

by mig39 11mo ago

I don't know if you've been paying attention, but the head of the USA has threatened on numerous occasions to invade Canada.

tick_tock_tick 11mo ago

I mean yeah we've famously even had full on invasion war plans drawn up in the past that leaked. Canada isn't going to do anything that changes the USA's ability to steam roll over the country.

rogerrogerr 11mo ago
Yep - the US is bad at fighting insurgencies, but a state military? Over in days. This does not materially change between Canada’s current military vs 5x their current military. But fighting pissed-off indigenous Canadians? I wouldn’t sign up for that part. None of this is relevant because the US does not want to own Canada.
- mig39 11mo ago
  > None of this is relevant because the US does not want to own Canada. Why does your president keep saying the opposite?
  - rogerrogerr 11mo ago
    He says stuff. If you haven’t figured out by now that the stuff he says and the stuff he does are different, I dunno what to tell you.
- amrocha 11mo ago
  I don’t know why you would think the US military would succeed this time when the last time it was successful in a large scale war was 80 years ago.
  - rogerrogerr 11mo ago
    When was the last time it was fighting a nation-state controlled, uniformed army?
    - amrocha 11mo ago
      You wouldn’t bet on a horse that can’t even run faster than dogs to actually win its real race in 80 years, would you?
pyuser583 11mo ago
Canada's plan was to encourage the US to invade, so the British Navy could attack the US from the Caribbean. The US would get bogged down in the icy Canadian winter, while the Royal Navy took the Eastern seaboard, Mississipi river, and Panama. The American plan was to throw everything we had at Canada, so it was probably a very good plan. I don't think it would work anymore. More practically - in the aftermath of the 1812 War, the US and British North America agreed to demilitarize the border. During WWII, this was preventing mobilization in the Great Lakes region, and Canada proposed undoing the treaty. The US diplomat in charge felt the treaty had historical value and should be kept in tact. So the US-Canadian border is very demilitarized, by design.

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