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What's the feeling over there.. if Trump tomorrow announced a military invasion to free Canada from fascists or whatever, would the military comply and start gunning down Canadians? I know there are a few more steps to it before such action can be taken (or at least I hope there are), so I suppose what I'm wondering is if there are enough Americans who think Canada is evil to happily rise to the challenge?
An absurd thought, but these are absurd times.
I'd fight for Canadian sovereignty. It would be a fight against my own oppressors. I expect if the US invades Canada WWIII would begin to be a hot war instead of this cold/proxy war it has been. Would think Europe would not stand idly either. They would have no choice. They know that the US and russia would begin to carve up Europe next.
There's also the fact that Canada is not nuclear-armed, but they sure as hell are nuclear-capable. They know how to build nukes, they have the infrastructure and manufacturing to do so, the country has simply chosen not to do so over the years.
As an American, I'd fight for the Canadians against my own Military.
Same, but as someone correctly pointed out to me, we can do more good sabotaging things from here.
Go read the conservative subreddit. They're still fully delusional, assuming they're real people.
Average Americans don’t want to fight Canada and if they were forced to they would resist every way they could. However, MAGA’s are extremely susceptible to propaganda and if Trumps administration is serious about invading Canada they would turn up the propaganda machine. This interview is propaganda, so the start of that. I don’t think a majority of Americans would ever want to fight Canada, especially since it’s so clear America is the aggressor. It’s also possible Trump and Musk will implode their administration before they can change public opinion enough for it to be feasible.
I have little doubt Pete Hegseth would gargle Trump's balls if requested and would absolutely command the military to do unspeakable shit. I don't have any idea what the average service member would do, but I would hope there'd be some internal resistance.