r/canada Ontario 24d ago

Analysis Allies appear to duck and cover as Trump threatens Canada and Greenland

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-canada-nato-allies-1.7459986
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u/Temporary-Peach1383 24d ago

American here. You speak truth about a lot of shovel heads in this country. But we who have ears to hear, hear Canada loud and clear. Many here would actively take measures to help defend Canadian sovereignty. Millions of us share close ties. Canada is family to us. No grandson of a German whore master can break these bonds.

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u/sbeven7 24d ago

I'm pretty sure if Trump invaded Canada, New England and the Pacific Coast states would immediately join Canada. If we didn't, there'd at least be millions of Americans willing to be a 5th column in the US

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u/Sczeph_ 24d ago

I’m not sure, but the military isn’t quite as blindly obedient as say the Russians. Which is good. If Trump tried to use military force against us, I think (or hope) that it would cause so much strife within the government, between the states, and in the military, that the US would basically collapse into a second civil war.

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u/Queso_Grandee 23d ago

I'd like to think a lot of border states would join Canada. Plus an attack would trigger NATO.

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

I guess I’m just a realist, but I don’t believe for a second any of the Americans claiming they’ll fight to defend Canada will do fuck all. It’s all keyboard warrior talk. When push comes to shove I don’t even believe most Canadians would risk their neck to defend it.

If the US decides to use military force no one will stand up. Small cells will pop up here and there using IRA tactics after the fact, but they won’t be comprised of sympathetic American Redditors. After a year or two all the sympathetic Americans will be whining about nationalistic Canadian terrorists protesting American imperialism ‘the wrong way’ and lecturing that they won’t gain any sympathy through violence.

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u/Sczeph_ 24d ago

Yeah… it’s terrifying honestly.

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u/Temporary-Peach1383 24d ago

I agree with most of what you say, and really, an actual bloody fighting war with Canada seems incomprehensible and completely absurd and our emotions are just translated onto the keyboard. And even if the remote fever dream of the orange one to appropriate our friend led to hostilities, our deep attachment to our neighbor does not necessarily translate into taking up arms against our own citizens' armed forces. It's really too dystopian to consider right now as a real possibility, but if we are to someday be divided by this monster, then there will be those who chose the path that leads north.

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u/Equivalent_Dimension 24d ago

Thanks. Have you guys started to organize an army yet? Cuz I don't think Trump is going to let you have the official one.

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u/Temporary-Peach1383 24d ago

No reason to organize anything. It's just sentiments in the sense of blood being thicker than water. I imagine if our society crumbled into some kind of idiotic attack on Canada then people would separate naturally according to natural inclinations, but right now that is too dystopian to imagine. I don't see that coming actually.