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I do not think they could. It is not just a matter of seizing something as much as holding it, as everyone has plainly seen in Ukraine, or post-occupation Iraq
by throwaway5752 4mo ago
I do not think they could. It is not just a matter of seizing something as much as holding it, as everyone has plainly seen in Ukraine, or post-occupation Iraq or Afghanistan.
Neither of those latter countries had a large shared land border with the US and ethnically similar populations that would make it easy to attack unhardened infrastructure.
- TMWNN 4mo ago[flagged]
- defrost 4mo agoConsider that responses to hypotheticals often vary wrt actions in the face of reality.
- switchbak 4mo agoI think there's a few things going on here: - surveys are just bad, you have a selection bias right off the bat, especially from an outfit like the globe and mail - the idea is that an invasion would be overwhelming and futile to resist. Russia is not going to invade Canada. I think the assumption would be it'd be China (also very unrealistic) or the USA (this used to be unrealistic). Given an unavoidable end result, I can kind of understand the idea that you wouldn't want to die for that. Plus there's the idea it'd be a soft invasion, where life would be good after. If Canadians had to fight for their actual lives, I would hope you'd see a bit more resistance. But that's the issue when you have a barely functional military, you can't just make one overnight. There's already a good number of folks who would like a US annexation (in theory at least), as you allude to. The cultural aspects are a little more complicated than what you describe, but I'll leave that.