Zur Verteidigung Kanadas; Es ist wirklich verrückt, dass das kanadische Militär ein so bisher unvorstellbares Szenario einer drohenden US-Invasion durchspielen muss.

It’s not insane. Sensible countries do this all the time. If you think America didn’t have plans of how they would invade Canada if the need arose tucked away in the pentagon under even Obama, you’re a goofball.

It’s Canada at long last leaving our happy little bubble that led to a ‚values based foreign policy‘ that gave no thoughts to outcomes, and starting to behave like a serious country.

It’s not insane at all. It’s common practice. Every country in the world does this with it’s neighboring countries. If they are saying that they have never done this before, then that has me more concerned for how our Forces are run than ever before. Probably a good indication of why it’s in such a failed state at the moment.

As usual the headline doesn’t really match the substance of the article which talks about how our government still isn’t meeting the goal of 2 per cent defense spending of GDP and how Carney was clever to boost our defense spending by moving the Coast Guard to defense and raising salaries. All of which means that the initial shock and awe of a U.S. invasion would hardly be needed. The author ends it by saying we ’should‘ be better at an insurgency than the Vietnamese, Iraqis and the Taliban but doesn’t say why.

They’ve been doing that for decades, it’s just the first time the general public is hearing about it due to the fact that the possibility of it happening went from ’not at all likely‘ to ‚depends on what side of the bed a dementia patient with the nuclear launch codes wakes up on‘.

America is more likely to go into civil war than invade us, get a grip.

„Looming“, lol. Come on.

Militaries wargame every scenario you can possibly imagine, and many you can’t. We’re only hearing about this now because it’s prime, sensational click-fodder in the current political environment.

What this is *not* -as the Globe article emphasized – is a plan. When the CAF starts *actively planning* for a US invasion, then we can start freaking out.

Military planning uses capabilities, not intent. This has been accepted doctrine worldwide for centuries. So planners in every country with a border plan for the scenario of invasion via each border. They also wargame alien invasions. None of this is generally talked about publicly. But in fact this is not the first time Canadian planning for US invasion has made the news. Vice versa has also made the news a couple times.

No, what’s truly insane is that Canada has never taken its sovereignty or defence seriously. Time to grow up without American crutches.

every country has plans in case thigns go down… this is normal

And this is why I’m getting my license to own firearms. I think we need to protect ourselves now.

We’ve relied upon the USA so much for protection, literally mooching off their defence capabilities (while acting so darn superior for NOT investing in our military), that they would EASILY annex us rapidly. And you aren’t going to see the Canadian legal gun owners who are ridiculously smeared and bullied, all while having their rights more and more restricted, stand up and go against the USA military. Why would they throw their lives away for a bunch of people who spent decades trashing them, and now suddenly want them to die for them also? They won’t!