Posted on 03/08/2025 7:09:18 AM PST by balch3
An expert on insurgency says an American military incursion into Canada would be a disaster — for the United States.
A military move by President Donald Trump could eventually destroy America’s worldwide power, says Dr. Aisha Ahmad, an associate professor at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Ahmad has studied insurgencies and visited many conflict zones for more than 20 years. She sees a pattern of resistance that repeats itself every time. Article content
When a country gets invaded, a growing portion of the people fight back.
Would Canadians do that? You bet we would, Ahmad says. Canadian “niceness” is a myth that would vanish overnight in the face of invasion.
Canadians haven’t been forced to see America as an enemy for nearly 200 years. Many won’t want to consider it now.
But we’re learning to take Trump at his own words. Now he wants to tear up the 1908 treaty that fixed our border.
He told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau he considers the agreement invalid. He’s after land, the Great Lakes and access to rivers.
This is the Putin playbook. Claim that you own territory, then take it.
If Canada doesn’t agree to Trump’s mythical new boundary, the next step is sending troops to secure it.
What happens if fighting begins?
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What utter nonsense. Trump has no plan to ‘invade’ Canada.
🙄 No one wants to invade Canada. I can see putting more forts along the border, I guess.
All I know about Canada is that they have a bunch of Tim Hortons. Anyway, Canada must be slow if they do not realize that Trump is “trolling”.
Thank God there’s smarter people in the world than this guy.
Man, Trump is really getting to them.
They are getting as Looney Tunes as the democrats.
No one wants Canada. This is from some fevered liberal brain.
Aren’t Moslems invading Canada as we speak? Have guerilla wars started at any airports?
Great, now that Trump has been duly warned, he can focus all of his attention on invading Lesotho
“A military move by President Donald Trump could eventually destroy America’s worldwide power, says Dr. Aisha Ahmad, an associate professor at the University of Toronto.”. Dr., I think you’re bat guano crazy.
Absolutely correct. But also, as a population, the spine has been taken out of them by their politics.typical lib tough guys, they’d fold like your proverbial cheap suit
She let it slip that canadians are not really nice, just two faced.
Exactly—just create special forces who speak Arabic and take over the whole country without firing a shot.
Dr. Aisha Ahmad
Sounds Canadian...
You wouldn’t have to worry about the three west provinces.
“Fifty-four-forty or fight!” (What President Trump never said.)
“What utter nonsense. Trump has no plan to ‘invade’ Canada.”
Rational people know that, but the left isn’t rational. This is just an attempt to make Trump seem even more scary to the idiots.
It only takes 1-5% of the guys between 15 and 40 with the tacit backing of 20% of the general population to make things very miserable for an occupying force.
If the provinces were admitted as six or so states (BC, ALberta, MB/SK, ON, QC and Atlantic Canada) one would find that courtesy of 12 new senators, with at best a 9-3 liberal break, and the centre in the House shifting to the left by about 10%, that Canada in the end conquers the U.S.
Be careful what you hope for, you just might get it.
Well, they do have all that bauxite. Its not worth invading them because we would then have to fix their broken ass selves, but it might be worth a mineral deal for re opening their soon to be closed sea lanes, starting with everything around Newfoundland.
Agreed—it would be dumb to admit Canada to the Union as a state or states.
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