Summary
Mark Carney, frontrunner for Canadian Liberal Party leadership and potential prime minister, stated Canada will stand up to a bully after Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canadian imports.
Carney vowed to retaliate by matching the US tariffs dollar for dollar, asserting Canada would not cave in despite mounting pressure.
He criticized Trump for undermining trade agreements, warning that the tariffs would damage the US global reputation and economic stability.
Outgoing Prime Minister Trudeau promised a forceful, immediate response, emphasizing unity as Canada defends its economic interests, ensuring national prosperity.
Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq etc are vastly different to the US itself in culture and language and everything.
A lot of misfortune was due to that.
Canada isn’t.
Anyway, I don’t think your idea of power balance here is right. Canada’s defense is basically a module of US defense.
Things about blending in and such, in our age of street cameras and computing power far more than needed, are just childish.
US absolutely can anschluss Canada, the question is why, because strategically it already gets from it everything it would provide as a state.
I think you underestimate how savagely Canadian resistance would treat invading Americans. Canadians are also incredibly patriotic. Terrorism and brutality would be the best defense in a war that was already unpopular and everyone knows it.
Additionally, they are used to environmental hardships the average American grunt isnt prepared for. The nation is massive and full of inhospitable wilderness to melt into.
It would be a long, brutal, drawn out guerilla war. Yes, the US would steamroll the Canadian military. After that it would be hell for those on the ground.
Its all fantasy anyway because the US has no reason to actually invade Canada. Trump just says it to rile people up and pundits are just licking his asshole when they agree.
“Savage” resistance, “terrorism” and “brutality” are kinda expected in an affair which is by definition a lot of people killing each other because of a disagreement.
That just means some time and effort to prepare the average American grunt.
You can see a dog from a satellite in all of that wilderness.
I know it’s fantasy, I just get irritated by fairy tale talk about warfare when there are plenty of wars disproving such myths going on right now. Your myths are not very different from what people in other parts of the world have or had.
Only an American would think that Canada is the same as the US. Because Americans are completely ignorant of Canada, in the same way they’re ignorant of the other places they tried (and failed) to conquer. Which is exactly why it’ll go the same way… only worse because there’s a lot of targets within drone range of Canada.
We seem similar but that’s to our advantage. There’s a very long border that Canadians can cross and you’d have to admit, Canadians would blend in well with the US population. While you’re looking at troop counts and number of planes and think it’ll be easy, we’re over here thinking about how easy it would be for us to fight a guerilla war on US soil. It’s been a long time since the US fought a war on your own soil and I’m seeing a lot of soft targets.
Also remember this would be the US betraying an ally. An ally that was just in a war fighting alongside the US for decades. Then a few years after that the US betrays it’s ally for what? Money? When the US is already the wealthiest country in the world? Never in human history has a country been so dishonorable. What do you think the US troop morale would be when ordered to do something so despicable? To fight against an ally to make some wealthy oligarchs even more wealthy? Canada would get a lot of help even from within the US if something like this were to happen. There would be a significant fifth column, to the point where the US might collapse into civil war.
If the US were to attempt invading Canada, it would be the end of the US.
You don’t quite get it, in those ME countries US can kill a lot of people outright and then deal with the fallout of hate towards them, and due to the value of life there perceived differently, there will be both hate and resistance.
I suggest you look at typical casualty numbers of guerilla wars, it’s one against dozens. That’s when one side is “white civilized people” and the other “some brownies”, so the former side has advantage and no reservations.
In Canada, due to value of life being perceived differently, the resistance won’t be as significant if they don’t commit massive war crimes, and if they do, they’ll likely succeed.
This would of course be a reputational suicide for the US, and also lead to a lot of internal confusion, and probably even yes, “be the end of the US”. But not immediately.
About honor and betraying allies - for the love of God, where have you seen honor in that kind of things?
I’m already laughing at the propaganda posters I’m imagining:
“Did YOUR neighbor just say ‘oot’, ‘sorry’, or ‘zed’? REPORT THEM TO YOUR NEAREST PATRIOTISM ASSURANCE OFFICER TODAY.”
Minnesota is gonna have some problems.