Carney prepared for risk that Trump might order military action against Canada: report
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-carney-prepared-for-risk-that-trump-might-order-military-action/
Carney prepared for risk that Trump might order military action against Canada: report
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-carney-prepared-for-risk-that-trump-might-order-military-action/
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Given all the threats he’s made and his volatility (Trump), it makes sense that a leader would prepare for the worst case.
As he should.. what are we gonna do just not have a plan?
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We should all be prepared. We’ll need to go underground. Organize block by block. Just like they are currently doing in the USA. Also don’t forget to use signal.
You’d be pretty stupid to not have a plan, even it’s an extremely remote chance.
What are we gonna do? I would suggest investing in explosives and drones and training folks in guerrilla tactics.
Partner with Ukraine for latest drone tech. They have become masters.
Honestly the best realistic defence is to keep regular citizens thoroughly armed so we are unable to be invaded and secured. There are already like 12 to 20 million guns in the country. That’s a great starting point. Every sane, sober, moral, prudent person should have at least one gun in their house and know how to use it….just in case.
I highly recommend people read Ultimatum by General Richard Rohmer. It’s an alternate-history novel and obviously heavily fictional, but it deals with the United States invading Canada in the face of an energy crisis. It was written in the 1970s.
Again, it’s heavily fictional, but there are elements of it that mirror what’s happening today surprisingly closely. And all I can say is, when I think about the Canada Rohmer was writing about, we had a much stronger military than we do now.
Rohmer himself certainly knew the military. He was one of Canada’s most decorated veterans and served as an RCAF pilot during the Second World War.
For a novel written more than 50 years ago about American pressure on Canadian sovereignty and resources, it’s a pretty fascinating and somewhat eerie read.
I am so happy that all the stupidest shit is happening everywhere all the time all at once.
Also I’m so sorry Canada lol like some of us are trying down here we really are holy fuck this is stupid.
I mean, I wouldn’t put it past the insane orange emperor to freely (try) and use nukes around the world. So him invading Canada is certainly not off the table by a long shot.
If he does it might be a special 3 day military operatipn
I downloaded a copy of “Simple Sabotage” last year – a manual published in 1944. A lot of this document can easily still be used by a resistance group today.
Shipments of Ukrainian drones and trainers on the way?
You realize, every country, no matter how friendly, game every option out? NORAD is still a thing. Canada is still buying US military hardware, and the US is still buying military hardware from Canada. This is just trying to scare people for political and internet clout.
He’s not going to physically invade Canada, it’s an economic war of attrition
We better keep all those .22 rifles from the buyback we were going to send to Ukraine, we might need them /s
They would just have to relax some gun laws and Canada wouldn’t even need our own military. Civilians could handle it.
It would also be a time when Canadians would not be acting like the Canadians everyone knows and loves. Geneva Convention doesn’t exist for civilians defending their homes.
What can we do as civilians? Honestly asking? How would I get training in gorilla warfare other than google and YouTube? How does a civilian buy military drones? Canada only has 2000. We need millions. I have guns, ammo and a food cache – what else as a sane civilian living in a border town to do? Anarchist cookbook still a thing? I’m very serious by the way. I have young daughters and would rather go down fighting.
Prepare for war against a mad king? Yeah sounds good
Well, he (Trump) carried out is threats for Iran and Venezuela. Iran as a distraction, and Venezuela as a cash grab. It’s perfectly reasonable to assume he would try something with Canada, even if the chance is remote.
It would be the end of America as we know it. Civil
War would break out
I think our curent reality could be best summarized by this quote from a former US Secretary of Defence:
“there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns…”
Canada has always had a plan, just never believed it would ever have to be used.
US Generals have said a military invasion against Canada would be stupid. It would be costly, and it would end up with a massive insurgency.
Not to mention as soon as it happened Canada would declare article 4/5 and the rest of NATO would need to respond. by treaties, if they didn’t then the entire NATO block would collapse, at that point China invades Taiwan, and Russia nukes Ukraine and invades the ex soviet bloc countries in the baltics.
The world devolves into WW3 instantly.
It would be WW1 all over again with 21st Century technology and nuclear weapons.
Same reason I have joined the reserves. We may not have much of a chance, but I’ll be ready to do all I can when the time comes.
And yes, this will gladly be the hill I die on if need be.
As unlikely as a full scale military invasion would be, the most disturbing thing is that the possibility of the United States using military force against Canada has moved from the realm of historical war-gaming and absurd hypotheticals into something the prime minister says he has personally considered as a national-security “extreme tail risk.” That is an extraordinary deterioration in the assumptions about Canada–U.S. relations, even if the probability remains very low.
They’d fail miserably if they tried. It’s too large a country to annex. US military is depleted due to Iran. US economy would collapse as they’ve already alienated so many of their allies and countries would dump US Bonds and trade is far too entrenched. The renegotiation of the agreement with Denmark would fall apart. The American population wouldn’t stand for it even if it promised them lower gas prices. And even *if* they managed to depose Carney, install a puppet leader, and have a military presence in every major Canadian city to cull some of us from fighting back, do you seriously think they’d be able to control any type of Canadian guerilla response when we look and sound exactly like them?
Obviously there’s a plan, it’s wild that he’s verbalising it though
>Mr. Trump, who told journalists in 2025 he would be willing to use “economic force”
Journalists always forget to mention that, for days or even weeks, before declaring economic war on Canada by saying that it was going to be annexation by economic force, Trump initially refused to answer whether he was willing to use military force, responding with things like, “We’ll see,” to imply that it remained a possibility.
In all fairness at one point there have been scenarios for zombie outbreaks considered
This is purely a headline to get people riled up. Of course there’s a plan. That’s supposed to be the government’s job….plan stuff. Tax everyone to the brink and keep planning stuff. Keep up the good work 🤪