We are taught the history of the world, not just our Canadian history in schools. Having that knowledge helps you understand other's.
Even as children we would giggle about how they kept losing against us. I think that was the reason when we played games growing up, no one want to be the US.
And people in Russia and Ukraine at one point might have felt the same. I didn't think we needed to worry about invasion in the 21st century but it's a new world.
Thanks, that is a good read about our history with Canada. It sickens me to see us turn on our friends. But I have no doubts that Canada will be able to defend itself. They were our largest trading partner so it is American business who will suffer the Billions of loses.
You know what would be funny? Is if the USA *did* invade Canada, and the New England states automatically surrendered to Canada before armies traded blows. 😅😅
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I worried about WW3 well before Trump took office again, basically bc of his obtuseness and narcissism. But I never would have guessed that we would start a war with Canada, of all places and issues in the world. Wake me from this fever dream!
I don’t think Trump would risk the humiliation of the armed services ignoring his orders. So it is much more likely that he would do something sneakier and less honorable than open invasion.
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Alas these are different times, but it's still hard for me to imagine orders for an unprovoked invasion of Canada to be met with anything but mass resistance. They would dissolve the Union with that kind of action.
Unfortunately I don't think that matters to the Trump regime. They think "might makes right" and the actions of your Senate & courts this week demonstrate that they have no boundaries they won't walk over. It's up to the citizens to sort them out - hopefully with the support of your military.
It matters to all the military commanders below the thin top layer that they purged and replaced. We are not going to turn on our ally for the last 150 years apropos of nothing, and they know it. This gaslighting is intended to produce fear and dismay, which it surely has.
I really hope you are right. I served alongside many US military and i think there will be quite a struggle between those whose will follow Trump and those who will protect your constitution.
The Colonel level tend to be the ones with real power in these struggles and unfortunately I experienced some really frightening examples of them during deployments. Let’s hope the good ones keep the scary ones in check.
I wonder how many Dem governors of border states will mobilize their national guard as a deterrent to federal military who try to cross into Canada? Then once that civil war is over, decisions can be made.
The Fuhrer of the United States thinks he can give orders to actual world leaders. His ego and delusions are cause to activate the 25th Amendment. However, arrests must be made of all his co-conspirators and new elections are required. Trump, Vance and Johnson are all traitors.
In 1775 American revolutionaries attacked Que Bec city protesting protections for their language (no kidding). Now Trump has made English a single official language for the US while trying to annex Canada, including French speaking Que Bec. Like how the US lost Canada in the first place.
Canadians are a lot like the black bear that exists in almost every part of their country; they are pretty peaceful, content to just sit and eat berries and enjoy the day, but when threatened (or if you threaten their cubs) there’s not much you can do to stop them.
I have spent my life around black bears. The reason you fight back is because they usually don’t care enough to bother with you if you’re not acting like prey.
But get between a momma and her cubs, or corner a black bear, and… yeah, they can be worse than a grizzly, easy.
Yup.
Not polar bears though. We’re in the rest of Canada.
That part most people don’t live. We eat stupid people for fun just for being outdoors in our territory.
That’s why nobody locks a door.
We’re like The Purge.
You’re only safe indoors.
Best stay there.
The title is the worst framing. Basically it says Russia shouldn't have attacked Ukraine. But only because they might get bogged down and not be able to win. Not because of the destruction and OUTRIGHT MURDER or anything like that.
It's not like the US seems to ever learn the whole "if they don't want you there, things arnt going to go well" lesson that everything from Vietnam onwards has tried to teach.
Who amongst the people of US wants one their loved ones to be the first to be sacrificed on the altar of Donald Trump's ego and be sent home in a body bag?
Really not a great article. Maybe they needed to find a writer who knows more about Canada than a couple of 18th- and 19th-C battles, contemporary hockey, and Greenpeace fundraising commercials. Kind of contemptuous, actually.
He works in some important facts through the humour: Canada’s 44,000 dead represented a higher percentage of the population than America’s losses in the Second World War. Many were volunteers from beginning to end. I'd add that they began small but had the third largest navy by the end of WWII.
Tried it many times. 1775. 1812-1814. Almost occurred in 1848 and the 1850's with "54-40 or fight". 1890's financially with McKinley, which triggered the Bank Panic of 1893 and Canada going hard to doing trade with the UK. History really needs to be taught better down there.
Are the Canadian preparing for an American invasion? What are they doing to fortify their border, their strategically important targets, shoring up their infrastructure (transportation, power grid, internet, etc…)? Are they investing in their military? Seems, these threats are a clarion call.
If the USA were to invade Canada, the results would be much like Iraq and Afghanistan. Canada would officially fall within days or weeks. After that, the USA would be faced with a hostile population supporting a never ending guerrilla war that the USA cannot win.
I'll be getting my gun license, not much of a step but if need be, I'll be buying up to stand on guard for my country and family.
Hoping it doesn't ever get past the license phase.
Hush we want these fucking idiots to invade then the EU will jump in then the insurgency of vets can sweep through the country and eliminate the tyrants while they are distracted and committed elsewhere.
Huh. I only knew a bit about the War of 1812 from my US History class in community college, but I don't remember Canada in either the book or the lectures.
Canada, as we know it only begins around 1840 when upper and lower Canada merged into the Province of Canada by the Act of Union. Then, when most of our maritime provinces joined Canada in 1867 through an Act of Confederation, we became The Dominion of Canada. We became a full country in 1982.
I honestly don't believe even he is mad enough to go through with it but I can certainly understand why Canada must take this seriously. Trump is committing war crimes.
He's also not leaving his sphere in the WH or Mar-a-Lago....He fancies himself a populist president....We haven't seen him with the electorate. Pro populo but not stepping outside a tightly controlled security perimeter....It's as though he understands how despised he is.
I am hoping Canada is able to do what the left has been unable to do and that is to make Trump states feel the pain of Trump’s reign of terror by boycotting orange juice and bourbon.
Yes during revolutionary war General Washington sent soldiers to try and seize Canadian fort & failed badly. Trumps latest gambit will fail like his attempt to reverse Biden pardon. Over how he issued the pardon. It will end up before SCOTUS.It’s just another attempt to circumvent constitutional law
Not to mention the pesky immorality of such a violation of international law -- mustn't invade other countries unprovoked -- "...but I really, REEEEEALLY want it."
Canada has one key advantage… we have 100% absolute solidarity on the issue of being invaded. America has at best 36%… if the US can’t hold Kabul how are they going to hold Quebec? I suggest the US focus on preventing the impending civil war…
I also would love to see Trump talk to a crowd of pissed off French Canadians and just how badly that would go for him. The sheer amount of “Tabarnak!!” and “Calisse quel gros écœurant!” that would be uttered.
That’s the point I make with anyone raising the ridiculous notion of an invasion. Their own country is imploding. Invading Canada would be like deciding to run a marathon while you’re dying of cancer
If the US did send troops into Canada it wouldn’t go well for them. Look at history, remember when the nazis invaded russia? It was winter. Hitler stupidly said, oh it’s fine! In Canada, we laughed, and laughed, knowing it was the end.
Russia is huge, nothing there, freezing cold. Russians were okay with it. Germans were not, even when prepared. It was over pretty fast. Same will happen in Canada. We will retreat up north into the bush.
Hide. You will never find anything up there. No one will tear up/bomb all the Forrest/natural resources. Not one US solider will last in that situation.
The world is washing and they also want a participation to the party, not with good intentions toward North América ,a more capable leader is needed to straighten the North Américan continent with a police of unity and respect for diversity, something that the present administration lucks.
True story: during my senior year in college, when I was supposed to be writing a thesis, I became adept at the arcade game Spy Hunter. Eliot Cohen (author of the above piece) appeared behind me, watched me play for a while, and said, "I know some people at the Agency who'd love to meet you."
Fascinating, especially descriptions of First Nation Mohawk Canadians.
My Uncle Paul, just 18, landed on Juno Beach D-Day with Mohawk Canadians, and spoke with respect of how the appearance of these warriors with their Mohican hair cut terrified the defending Germans, who mostly ran away.
Trump may have some fascination with taking Canada and Greenland but I think he’s mostly just stirring up a dust storm so we don’t pay attention to what he’s really doing.
Trump is what I call “Schrödinger’s Dictator”. Everything he says and does is a cover for something he is hiding, unless nobody takes it seriously in which case that was his goal all along.
US is 0 for 4 against Cuba, Vietnam, Iraq & Afghanistan. Want to try a NATO nation in your backyard?
There are 1 million Canadians living in 🇺🇸. The sabotage & terrorism would be epic.
Plus 12 Saudis & 3 aircraft = 9/11
🇨🇦 has many domestic airlines with hundreds of airliners & plenty of pilots.
How about no. Non. No fucking way. It will never happen and attempting to DESTROY Canada will ultimately end the United States. We are only nice at peace. Fuck around with us and find out who we are at war. We will end you.
"If its 10 provinces became 10 states instead of one, only three would probably vote for the GOP; the other seven would likely go for Democrats. "
Nope. The 'conservative' Canadian west is still left of the US center. No Canadian Conservative party has ever run on abolishing universal healthcare.
They don't run on it, they just chip away at it when they're in office. Canadians know voting for conservatives is a vote against public Healthcare. They still get voted in, though, and our healthcare is in crisis. In Ontario anyway.
I hope, one day, Ontarians and Albertans will feel enough pain to wake up, before Cons change the provincial constitution to make conservative governments permanent.
The most privatized incarnation of Canadian healthcare that Cons have ever suggested would still be more extensive than the Medicare for All touted by the D left.
I repeat, Canadian conservatives would never consider running on anything remotely like US healthcare -meaning they're left of all Rs
I agree, but like I said, they don't run on it. They just chip at it and deny any other motives other than "private will do what public can't" as evidenced in Ontario.
Well that's the role of debates - when we get to that PP needs to be asked how much of the US healthcare system he wants to recreate here. If he denies any plans, he'll had to answer if he is the govt
Realistically, at this point, even if Cons won it, they would only get a short lived, weak minority
I've seen what they do with minority governments it won't make things much better if they make everything a confidence motion or omnibus bill but at least it prevents total tyranny. They don't even bother showing up for debate most of the time let alone answer anything honestly.
This is good. So even what healthcare Cons want for Canadians is still not bad enough for Canadians, we should measure with the worse of the developed western nations?
Canadians, do you think we are worthy of much better healthcare than we have now?
Don't think you're following the train of the discussion.
My point simply was that Americans who think Canadian conservative western provinces are as far to the right as red MAGA states are just dead wrong. Political center in Canada is far to the left of that in US
Especially since none of them actually *want* to be part of the US. “Hey, let’s vote for the guy who *invaded us and conquered us*” is not a coherent thought process.
This is why the GoP would NEVER let Trump bring in a population bigger than California of people that are even more lefty blue than CA is. Forget about Senate seats, just the additional House seats.
Trump would probably let Quebec secede if he was having trouble getting the rest of Canada onboard.
Of course he doesn't but he isn't interested in what any other countries actually want.
Try assuming Trump strategy is to maximize disruption to the US and world economy while wrecking all relationships with former allies and then think who wants that to happen. It starts making sense.
She is doing her best to privatize healthcare. However, when asked about joining the USA, she said she has seen "no enthusiasm for that notion". 74% of Albertans polled preferred to stay in Canada; and Conservatives (all Canada) are at 73%. It should be more, but it is a strong majority.
It is a majority that wish to remain Canadian and I'm glad.
However I find Smith very hard to trust when she hosts propagandists like Tucker Carlson or associates with Kevin O'Leary, a known Trump supporter for his vision of Canada.
She may of seen no enthusiasm from the people, but what of her?
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not bc it would acksherly give the dems a big advantage. not bc they’d be hard to invade.
so angry this regime is throwing all that away, but this doesn’t help either!
Even as children we would giggle about how they kept losing against us. I think that was the reason when we played games growing up, no one want to be the US.
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Now excuse me while I rummage through garbage.
But get between a momma and her cubs, or corner a black bear, and… yeah, they can be worse than a grizzly, easy.
Not polar bears though. We’re in the rest of Canada.
That part most people don’t live. We eat stupid people for fun just for being outdoors in our territory.
That’s why nobody locks a door.
We’re like The Purge.
You’re only safe indoors.
Best stay there.
Dude. No RINOS here.
Personally I think the US is losing on that front, but I biased.
Hoping it doesn't ever get past the license phase.
I didn't know the US tried to invade Canada. Was this before or after the Civil War?
even before independence
American Civil War 1861
The flames would be pretty, that’s for sure.
Of course, Little King Trump, anything you want!
Any military move on Canada would result in civil war in the USA.
My Uncle Paul, just 18, landed on Juno Beach D-Day with Mohawk Canadians, and spoke with respect of how the appearance of these warriors with their Mohican hair cut terrified the defending Germans, who mostly ran away.
Our Apple joystick was super touchy.
There are 1 million Canadians living in 🇺🇸. The sabotage & terrorism would be epic.
Plus 12 Saudis & 3 aircraft = 9/11
🇨🇦 has many domestic airlines with hundreds of airliners & plenty of pilots.
Participate in a weiner roast on the White House steps.
I hope that’s clear enough.
Nope. The 'conservative' Canadian west is still left of the US center. No Canadian Conservative party has ever run on abolishing universal healthcare.
I repeat, Canadian conservatives would never consider running on anything remotely like US healthcare -meaning they're left of all Rs
Realistically, at this point, even if Cons won it, they would only get a short lived, weak minority
Canadians, do you think we are worthy of much better healthcare than we have now?
My point simply was that Americans who think Canadian conservative western provinces are as far to the right as red MAGA states are just dead wrong. Political center in Canada is far to the left of that in US
Saying “Canada is not as bad as the cesspool” is an insult.
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I’ll admit, I’d love to see American politicians have to deal with the Bloc Québécois.
Trump would probably let Quebec secede if he was having trouble getting the rest of Canada onboard.
I think, full stop, Trump just outright doesn’t understand Canada and doesn’t understand the political differences.
Try assuming Trump strategy is to maximize disruption to the US and world economy while wrecking all relationships with former allies and then think who wants that to happen. It starts making sense.
Sad times we live in.
Not by military; Some Albertians are frustrated, for various reasons; Most lean more conservative than the rest of Canada.
Premier Smith praises US policy, she would have no issue succeeding Alberta from Canada to become a US State. Watch for propaganda campaigns.
However I find Smith very hard to trust when she hosts propagandists like Tucker Carlson or associates with Kevin O'Leary, a known Trump supporter for his vision of Canada.
She may of seen no enthusiasm from the people, but what of her?
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