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On 04 May 2025, Trump himself said that he might use a military invasion to take Greenland. If a White House announcement of the same information surprises you in Jan 2026, you have not been paying attention.

Okay, so anschluss is not inherently bad and it depends on context, people do not have right to a voice before their country is annexed by another, and you might defend Canada from some countries but you will defend rolling-over for the one country that actually could invade. You seemingly...

... is that wanting self-determination before being forcibly absorbed into another country is "abstract fluff" and "hand-waving at cloud-shaped diagrams". Yes, those were your words. You have made clear, not only that you would not fight for Canada, but that you don't see American anschluss as...

Maybe that was true when the country was a still functioning democracy without an authoritarian oligarchy at the helm. Of course, back then the country would not threaten an ally with annexation (militarily or otherwise). Imposing a union on a people is evil. Forcibly annexing land is evil...

It is interesting that the folks who rushed to call the possibility of a MAGA military intervention in a NATO nation a sign of a "mind virus" and a "conspiracy theory" with zero probability of happening are the same folks who later rationalized Trump's global tariff war as "tough love." Those...

Who is the “grown up table” in the UCP, and do you really expect they will stop setting conditions for separation while denying they are separatists if there is a referendum result that supports staying in Canada?

Maybe the whole how we harden Canada & the Canadian economy discussion can be had in a thread about Canada? The US abduction of Maduro has implications for Canada, but it's not about Canada and the mods had already attempted one thread split to get this back on track.

And what would be the impact on courts within a nation that has recent precedent that anything done by a president is legal if it was done officially as president? https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

But it was all done out of altruism, wasn’t it?

Maybe all the discussion on Canadian highways & railways belongs in a thread about Canada?

Hey, if US track record is any indicator then Trump can realize all his oil ambitions in 30ish years, within which will need a 20 year counter insurgency war.

I think you may be making a series of assumptions here. However, the Trump admin has shown it will use conjecture & imagination to justify various sorts of behaviours. So I agree that all countries in the Americas should be concerned about a now more likely US military violations of sovereignty.

Not really a defence that resonates coming from a country that still seems afraid to stand-up to Russia.

The underlying assumption of this assessment is that Venezuela will roll over and become a US vassal it response to their head of the executive being abducted. Venezuela may not be able to win a war against the US, but they can now claim just cause if they want to shoot at the American warships...

When trucks are not important enough for the Combat Arms folks to be engaged in the PD staff, you get the trucks that Log O and MSE Ops want to do their job better, but not necessarily what the CQMS or Fd Tp WO need for their work.

The comparisons here look positive for Canada.

At a certain point, the mandate is too broad for one to be expert across the full scope. So the CDS will be a generaliat. But the head of CAF HR should be an HR specialist. The commander of a support command should be a supporter, the commander of a sustainment formation should be a sustainer...

And a lot of Brits. Canadian soldiers trained in Britain, with British Army units often providing support and advanced training. British artillery helped set up Canadian artillery training schools in the UK, utilizing shared resources. And CANLOAN allowed Canadian Army officers to serve...

This is about money and not freedom of speech. The current administration is more than happy to trample speech that it does not like.

Aside Trump, which executive has threatened and/or attempted to prosecute its political opponents? The Biden admin didn’t even hold Trump accountable for his attempted autogolpe.