Opinion: We need to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. uses military coercion against Canada
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Seeing the world do … nothing with Venezuela is concerning
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Setting aside the very real threat of military action from the United States in the short term, Canada also needs to prepare for the reality that they can no longer depend on the US for strategic defense in the long term either. If their national defense strategy depends on the American voters never electing a person like Trump again, they are in for some really unpleasant surprises.
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Might be a bit hard to unite that effort with Alberta being a lil bich
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What's interesting to me is that Canadian MSM is now saying this out loud.
Fight, flight, or freeze. How would you respond? How will you prepare for one of those three?
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I gotta wonder who the María Corina Machado of Canada is going to be.
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Is no one in Alberta being educated about WWII and Hitler? JFC. We are watching Trump following Hitler’s playbook. Europe is banding together over Greenland. USA sucks
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That's the first woman president of Southern Canada...that's the Canada that has Tijuana in it.
Besides continued diplomacy with potential allies who maybe won't just sign angry letters and sternly wag their fingers at a camera if/when we get invaded...
What else can we do with a tiny population and a dwarfed by our enemies military budget?
Nukes, anyone?
I'd like to hear some suggestions beyond "maybe we should do...something...idk what."
I mean besides sabotage after the fact, that's a given and I'm read up.
Yay, let's waste more billions on the CAF and drain social programs so we can become like the US while avoiding becoming the US.
The problem with these right wing rags is that they never state what they mean, nor explain how to fund it. What they mean is spend hundreds of billions on war toys made abroad from tax revenues and cuts from all other programs. These assholes never suggest a military tax.
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Canada needs to offer asylum and military jobs to US citizens who want to fight this fascism.
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Trump is exactly stupid enough to think kidnapping Carney would have the same effect as it did on Venuzuela, because he's too ignorant to know that that's not how parliamentary democracies work.
That being said, I would hope that there is a kind of dead-man-switch that will automatically trigger to dump all of our US Debt that we own into the market all at once and do some damage to their economy. Not to mention cutting off their power and closing the borders.
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Unfortunately, yes. The best way to dissuade them from trying is to act as if they will. Still, military spending ranks low on people's priority list. At least Carney takes it more seriously than his predecessor did.
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Get nukes. Nothing else scares them as much as nukes. It means you need to have em.
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Repeal American anti circumvention laws!!
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet#t=1045
Yeah no shit, I figured that out the second trump got re-elected, what took you so long?
Pre-preparing... don't buy US weapons with kill switches (F35). Stop the idiocy of Canada's military strategy/needs as continuing to act as force amplification for US evil/ambitions.
By far the most important diplomatic/military posture change must be re-evaluating Russophobia. Russia's narratives are far closer to reality than our propaganda, and our propaganda only exists to defraud us, not convince Russians that our values "are love towards them". More important that the demonic morality of agreeing with every US warmongering propaganda in history, pretending that anti-Russia/China propaganda matters more than our defense divides us with the world. It's that division that makes it easy for US to "settle for Americas" and give up the rest.
Preparing, together with Europe, means unity with Russia and China. Simply dropping the antagonism towards them goes a long way. It is a complete joke to try to bog Russia down in Ukraine, because, as always, they need to do the heavy lifting in protecting the world from the US.
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