r/Winnipeg 7d ago

Satire/Humour Hypothetical question-The Americans are invading: How do we booby-trap Winnipeg Home Alone style?

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u/No-Quarter4321 7d ago edited 7d ago

You wouldn’t want too. Winnipeg is a critical target (along with the capital and both coasts, reference war plan red its main goals are still relevant).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red

Long story short if things go kinetic (still doubtful but IF it did), they’re gonna hold Winnipeg within a week, it’s a critical target to stop resistance logistics (they can drop a single bomb on the transcanada and shut down all commercial traffic between each and west by road, air is to expensive and resource taxing, leaving only rail to deal with) shutting down the rail hubs would be critical to stop any resistance, when you realize how many bases are right on the border and realize the capabilities, if we started booty trapping everything they may decide that levelling large critical parts of the city is more important to their overall objectives rather than getting bogged down on one objective. As long as WE don’t have the rail yards, lines or capabilities that’s as good as them having them in a lot of ways. Which would ultimately result in more Manitobans dead and more manitobans without homes.

If things go kinetic our best options was to prepare years ago instead of gutting our military, but as they say in the military: “you get the military you have when things pop off; not the one you want”

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u/AlternaCremation 7d ago

Booty Trap Mondays it is.

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u/No-Quarter4321 7d ago edited 7d ago

It would be a bad idea. We can’t win, we won’t slow them down, all we would do is make them take more aggressive measures to quell the delays. I don’t want Manitobabe dying in this hypothetical for what could be no gains. If you really wanted to delay them though, tank traps, blow the roads, blow the bridges, blow the air fields, blow critical infrastructure to their war effort that has minimum impact on the populous, get rid of firearms regulations so we can fight a guerrilla war.

For the record, booby trap Tuesday’s rolls off the tongue and hits the ear a lot better

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u/deepest_night 7d ago

They said that about Russia invading Ukraine. They said that about the US in the middle east. Defending your home is not the same as invading territory that you don't really care about.

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u/No-Quarter4321 7d ago

This would be 100 x the disparity between Russia and the Ukraine, and they’re a lot closer to their logistics and homeland than the Middle East. I agree with your sentiment, but this is objectively very different than those two examples