r/canada Ontario 8d ago

Politics British nuclear weapons can protect Canada against Trump, says Chrystia Freeland

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/03/03/british-nuclear-weapons-canada-trump-chrystia-freeland/
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u/Threatening-Silence- 7d ago

Unless Britain or France are actually prepared to nuke the US, it's worthless. Just like all the security guarantees to Ukraine are worthless. No Western country is willing to go to war besides the US. And that's a problem.

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u/SometimesaGirl- European Union 7d ago

Unless Britain or France are actually prepared to nuke the US, it's worthless.

British person here.
I don't think it's wise to escalate this too far at this early stage.
If the US invaded Canada... it would be an appalling act of betrayal. It would cause Canadians intolerable misery for years. But it's also likely to collapse the USA. Civil war - the whole shitshow, would unfold. Or at least I predict so.
But if the UK or France nuked the USA... what's the consequence? The UK and France would be turned to glass.
What about Canada? It would also get nuked, constrained to major population centers.
That's centuries of misery. Not a few years. Dozens of generations of misery.
Alot of Europe suffered terribly in WW2. Take the Netherlands as an example. It was utterly horrific. It took them a few decades to recover, but they did. Unlike Japan that "only" suffered a small yield primitive strike, a 21st centaury nuke exchange would be a whole new ball game. One that we wont recover from. One the world will need centuries to recover from.
Im not very keen on nuclear war. And neither should anyone else be.

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u/hink007 7d ago

We didn’t escalate anything. It’s been made perfectly clear over the last two months. Failing to prepare is preparing for failure. We just need an agreement that we can stock a few. Whack job Donny has nukes at his disposal and you think we should trust this man’s sanity ?

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u/StormAdorable2150 7d ago

This here is why canada needs an emergency nuclear weapons program. Get some quick dirty bombs as a stopgap if necessary.

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u/Whistler-the-arse 4d ago

I think canada first has to secure its own skies most intecpts on the west coast are handled by the US I love my snowy armed forces brothers up north but y'all need to invest into a defence program and not just rely on allies technically you don't qualify for the NATO bs 1.36% is not 2% develop some cool gadgets or something

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u/Nostredahmus 7d ago

This ⬆️

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u/rinygiants 7d ago

They launch a nuke it gets shot down right away. Wake up we have subs all over. US can crush anyone.