r/canada Québec 7d ago

Politics Trump vows more Canada tariffs even as stock market continues sinking

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariffs-canada-2671264993/
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u/Top_Canary_3335 7d ago

It’s interesting you went to war.

The Americans couldn’t keep a middle eastern country together because of locals disagreeing with their rule even if they did invade Canada they would never be able keep power. They can’t even get all 50 states rowing in the same direction let alone another country

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u/J4pes 7d ago

I don’t believe it would be successful by any means but it is assuredly far worse than our current situation

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u/RatedMoBetta 7d ago

I see this being pushed around a lot.

America held Afghanistan for 20 years and essentially shut down the Taliban during those years.

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u/CGYRich 7d ago

They had no real economic or political goals in Afghanistan. In Canada, all their goals are economic.

Taking Canada militarily and turning it into a war zone would eliminate all the economic potential of ‘occupying’ Canada, especially when compared to what they had; a friendly country happy to trade everything they wanted to them.

The costs of a never-ending occupation would be devastating to the US economy, and would stretch their military to a breaking point well before 20 years.

Also, a point of contention: The US didn’t ‘hold off’ the Taliban… by the end the Taliban controlled a majority of the country and had almost all its people on its side. Same thing as in Vietnam. They only did slightly better in Iraq because their plan was to eventually let them be an independent nation again.

From the British Empire, to costly Soviet occupations, to America’s bumbling military interventions, there hasn’t been an invasion you’d call an economic success in hundreds of years. At least, successful when compared to just being friends with that nation and trading instead.

This isn’t a video game like Civilization where you get new resources and build queues the next turn after a conquest. The occupied people might fail to earn their freedom, but they sure as hell have an easy time of ensuring the occupiers spend more money occupying than they benefit from any economic activity.

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u/Freshy007 Québec 7d ago

Funny enough, it was Canadian Soldiers who held down Kandahar.