Can you back this up with any poll where it shows that 40% of Americans want to use military force to invade Canada? Hell, can you find one that shows 15%?
This article is little hard to read because of ads but gives a different and seemingly reasonable perspective:
Ideas include:
– U.S. threats against Canada historically seem serious at the time but do not pan out. So risk is real but low.
– If Trump attacks Canada, it would only be after conquest of Greenland
– The U.S. would probably go after artic areas of Canada, near Greenland, partly because there already is disagreement of who owns what waterways there..
I had not thought of the the last point above, but suspect this author is correct. Trump is militarily risk adverse. I now think a Battle of Parliament Hill is the least likely scenario.
I oppose Trump as much as anyone, but I get the impression some posters here actually want Trump to make a military move on Canada, or rattle the saber hard. Like they want it to happen, to prove their point, or something.
If Trump ordered the military to attack Canada, I expect they’d just salute and do it; we’ve been told over and over that the military will save us from the evil rightwingers, but it never actually happens. And the geography and power disparity means it would be over quickly. As for the American public and political establishment; going by the track record so far they will just collectively roll over yet again.
Now the occupation? That would be a messy, bloody disaster. It’s a given it would be planned and executed horribly, the Canadians would be resisting both violently and non-violently, and Trump at the top would be screaming for a massacre of “traitors” (since any Canadian who doesn’t submit is a “traitor”).
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I don’t believe this to be close to accurate.
Can you point to the posts/posters that leave you with the impression that they want this to occur so that they can speak to it?
He could have the squeaky wheel tank lead the column, and they’ll be laughing so hard that they won’t be able to fight back.
like global climate change, things aren’t like they used to be politically either.
Au contraire, we’d send out the biggest group of hosers we can assemble, to lubricate it for them. “Dere ya go, Buddy, dat’s how you keep a tank in shape. Damn shame, they don’t teach you guys dat…”
I don’t know if you’re Canadian or not but, assuming you’re not, we, up here in Canada, find Trump’s rhetoric, combined with the destructive results of his tariffs, to be extremely concerning and threatening, if not existential.
We absolutely do not want this to happen, but we also would prefer the pre-2024 status quo. And in the current Trump-world, nothing is realistically predictable and any actions and events could be on the table.
Yeah. Trump is clearly neither intelligent nor stable, and has zero concern for moral standards or laws of any kind. So saying “he’d never do that” is unrealistic. Maybe he will invade Canada. Maybe he won’t. Maybe he’ll attack Greenland or Mexico instead. Maybe he’ll decide to attack some other country people aren’t even thinking of right now, for reasons that will make sense only to him.
Who knows? Not even Trump, I suspect.
A gentle reminder that Canadian soldiers were particularly known for their brutality in both WWI and WWII. Canadian snipers are also particularly well regarded, and their Sniper program is among the best (if not the best) in the world.
I would encourage Canada to remodel the White House, with fire.
For the second time.
(Ok, I know, I know, it was the British, the first time, but a golden glow as the plastic decor goes up in flames would be glorious)
It’s been a hectic day of work, and I’ve just returned to this thread. I was about to say…
But you beat me to it. Never piss off a Canadian!
Indeed.
But the thought of every soldier being able to do 50 pushups and 10 pullups is certain to make us surrender.
Pointing out that the consequences will be negative is useless since Trump is incapable of thinking about consequences. Or thinking, period. And now that he filled the top of the government with incompetent sycophants, nothing they do will go the way they claim.
That is the point. The man is unhinged.
True, but consequences have a way of penetrating even the densest mentalities of the most intransigent morons. They may think that digging for gold in the hull of their ship with a pick axe is a terrific idea, but when they’re up to their ears in seawater, reality has a way of asserting itself. Trump and his sycophants have only been in office about 9 months, and enormous systems like the US economy and its institutions have enormous inertia, but even now the cracks are showing.
Trump was raised under the personal influence of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. He believes that his belief/will creates reality.
No matter how high the water, if it is not within his belief system, it is not there. Conversely what he believes becomes real by virtue of his will. In example: he has stopped 7 wars; DC is free of crime.
Erik the Viking has something to say about that.
Who the hell cares about TV stations anymore?