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NGL if the USA invades anywhere other than Russia, I'll be enlisting for the other side.
As a Canadian, the moment tanks roll across the border I'm going feral. This is not the future we were promised in our youth. Sovereignty is non-negotiable.
I'm with you buddy i will use the rest of my life making canada a useless wasteland before i let those fucktard take 1 inch of land
Why make Canada a wasteland when you can literally drive across one of the world's longest borders in an American made pickup, wearing American clothes, with an American gun?
A Canadian insurgency wouldn't happen in Canada. It would happen in the US. We're not talking about the Taliban setting roadside bombs in Falujah here; we're talking about angry Canucks in GM pickups rolling up on Mitch McConnell's house with AR-15s that they bought in a parking lot with US dollars and no ID. There are a hundred senators and five hundred and thirty-eight house representatives in the federal government alone. How many do you think would have to die before they started to seriously reconsider the entire notion? How long would they want things to continue when every public appearance is a death sentence?
Might I suggest buying a few cheap drones? If every Canadian had five cheap drones and access to special recipes any occupation would be costly and extremely expensive.
The only recipes I have are for muffins. I'm a terrible baker though, so that might still work.
Make the muffins using Styrofoam and gasoline.
Stuff Styrofoam in a glass container. Fill up.
When ready to bake Heat wick to 350°
^I love the smell of napalm muffins in the morning.^
Just like momma used to make when protesting animal testing!
I saw really interesting piece of commentary on this from a guy who studies US politics and military interventions. His point was really simple; the one big takeaway the whole world learned throughout the 2000's and 2010's was that you simply cannot effectively rule a population that does not want to be ruled. The US couldn't do it in Iraq or Afghanistan, with all their firepower and technology and manpower. Even a tiny, tiny fraction of a population choosing resistance is enough to create an unending nightmare for an occupier.
And the difference, the really big difference, was that those countries were an ocean away. A Canadian insurgency wouldn't be US soldiers getting IED'd in Montreal; it would be bombings in the US capitol, in New York, in LA. Canadians look like Americans, dress like Americans, drive the same cars as as Americans, and talk enough like them that the average American would at best think they were from another state; and the two countries are joined by one of the world's longest borders. There is literally nothing that could stop Canadian insurgents from travelling to every single city in the continental US and hitting people right in their homes. It would be "The Troubles" on steroids. And they'd be doing this in a country that gleefully allows people to buy firearms off ebay with no background check or ID.
Imagine what things would have looked like if the Taliban could rock up to the home of any US senator in a pickup with a bunch of AR-15s. They simply do not have the domestic security apparatus to deal with something like that.
As a German I will join you.
When does it come good?
(I’m well aware that it never will come good as part of the plan.).
if the military doesnt go against trump and refuse, itll be a repeat of “just following orders”
Nah bruv, it’s probably far more effective to engage in sabotage at home.
Start with the propaganda outlets and think tanks.
That harms citizens, I'd rather just take out the armed.
You can sabotage all kinds of things that wouldn't harm citizens. Military bases. Republican headquarters. Roads and rail used to transport military equipment.
Maybe once or twice, but not consistently. The higher value the target the higher the risks.
Lemmy’s so fkn strange, you got a downvote on this.
The Tankies get mad if the westerners don't harm their own nations.
The reality is we need resistance at home and abroad if Trump wages war against Canada/Denmark.
I'm ready to do my part. But I'll need good ideas.
So you’re not wrong. But in the context of “the US invades an ally to annex their land because Trump felt like it”, protests are absolutely not going to cut the mustard.
No, seriously, if we get to that state, there genuinely does need to be maximum chaos. I say that as an American.
On an entirely unrelated note, I don’t think it’d be that hard to drop bunches of tinsel strands over electrical substations by drone.
If I was single and childless I'd be more than tempted to go fight in Ukraine. That might be the most productive and objectively noble thing anyone could do right now to stop Putin and maybe, by extension, the US.
I was tempted but Ukraine made a public statement that they need armaments, not untrained fighters.
IDK. Luigi did a lot and didn't have to leave the US to do it.
But over there shooting bad people is legal.
If the only thing stopping you from shooting people is the law then you may not be as good as you think you are
You could do more damage as fifth column resistance from the inside, but enlisting on the opposite side would be easier.
Yuuuup
Me too, but why can't we invade anywhere warm?