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I'm in the GTA. I'm ready to die for my country. Are Americans ready to say the same when their president gives them the order?
Rest assured you do not want to fuck with us Canadians. We are deeply embedded in your country. You would see terrorism the likes of which you have only seen in your nightmares. 9/11 will seem like happier times.
Seriously as a Canadian I want them to try.
I'd rather come up there and die for Canada
Greater Toronto Area? 🙅♂️❌️
Grand Theft Auto? 😄👌✅️
One of those GTAs prepares you for war much better than the other one.
A lot of Americans would come fight right alongside you. People are pissed.
This is the main reason I'm sure that a hot war is not going to happen.
Picture how chaotic and dysfunctional the US was in the latter years of the Vietnam war, and that was at least theoretically a war against the great evil "Communism", when the people being killed were "Gooks", who were barely human (at least according to racist propaganda).
Any war on Canada would probably start with maybe 30% support, and only go down from there. Could you even trust American soldiers to follow orders and kill Canadians? Probably some would obey, definitely not all. At a minimum, many would be shooting to miss, rather than carefully aiming.
As soon as Canada was attacked, you'd have Canadians streaming across the largest land border in the world into the US to engage in guerilla warfare -- think the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland, except with much less of a difference in accent. They'd probably be joined by plenty of Americans too.
And, while the US military is very experienced, the US public hasn't had to deal with war on their territory since the Civil War, generations ago.
I won't discount the possibility that the US drums up support for a war by staging a false flag attack or something. But, even with that, I think a majority of the US wouldn't want to risk American lives trying to kill Canadians.
I’m in Minnesota, I’d take up arms against people trying to invade Canada. Fuck those fascists.
Let's go Canada!
Fun, totally unrelated to absolutely anything fact:
Three of the top ten longest confirmed sniper kills were Canadian.
It's basically our military specialization
Everywhere snipers are a thing, the best ones are always the ones that grew up hunting. There's a lot of really wild areas with really big game in Canada, it makes sense that some people are going to be very good with a rifle and scope.
A lot of us grow up around long guns. Handguns are relatively rare.
As an Australian, I have no idea how my country would respond to this officially. The US alliance is basically our entire defence strategy, and we have fostered that by supporting the US in every conflict they're involved in. On the other hand, we could never go against another Commonwealth nation. The cultural weight is too great.
Perhaps the best we could offer is assurance that any Canadian visitors (refugees) to Australia can probably overstay your visas for as long as necessary. For some reason we only care when immigrants arrive by boat. Just follow all the Aussies when they start leaving your ski fields.
You have my understanding and support. Canadians please take care of yourselves.
You had our back in Afghan/Iraq, you have brothers and sisters in the US that will help.
It will take the unity to sabotage any Nazi/maga plans.
They'll intern and deport them
That's something that's been on my mind lately. I wouldn't be able to hide anyone in my home or lay low because I've been vocal about my beliefs my whole life. I've been to more than enough protests to know there's some sort of facial recognition on me, and I've been vocal enough online in recorded social media. The state of surveillance and tech advances in this age is going to make it difficult for anyone to organize and support each other. There's almost no way to stay off the radar and everyone has a cell phone and smart speaker at home listening to their every word.
Absolutely... Then there's the chilling effect that comes with it. People not even attempting to organize because they know what can happen if they do.
No worries folks, any infiltration violence in resistance isn’t likely to be directed at random civilians.
A lot of vandalism, though. And some judicious sniping would be likely.
If y'all ask, our economically developed states will fight on your side. Just promise us you'll adopt us afterwards. We'll do it for Tim's
Fuck yeah brother, I’m with you
I'm building explosive filled toques.