Thus far, Trump has not raised the possibility of sending actual troops to Ontario. Instead, he seems to believe he can achieve this Canadian Anschluss by simply crushing Canada’s economy and leaving it no choice but to join the US.
But Canada in 2025 is not Austria in 1938. “Canada will never, ever be part of America,” declared newly elected Canadian Prime Minster Mark Carney last week, making the country’s position crystal clear. And, last month, the Canadian Armed Forces announced that after years of declining enrollment, it had seen a surge in enlistments since Trump took office, with about 1,000 more applicants than last year. (Canadian officials couldn’t attribute the new rash of interest to Trump’s threats, but they didn’t rule it out, either.)
Given that Canada will never voluntarily join the US—which it is adamant about—would Trump try to use force to annex it? And would Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth go along with this crazy plan?
Nitpick but Mark Carney is not elected. The governing party changed leaders. I will most likely vote Liberal at the next election but it irritates me the current PM is not elected. He needs to call an election yesterday.
I’m pretty sure we’ve all figured out our own personal insurrection style already.
Mine is penises in the dead mouth like the Viet Cong did. And blowing up Americans.
There’s no “what if he’s serious” here, the rest of the world with half a brain saw it already.
He’s probing. If there’s no resistance, he’ll grab whatever he can.
Yes, it all sucks, but this is just diversion to distract from the actual authoritarian takeover of the us government. Canada is safe from a military action by the US.
Half of all Canadians support joining the EU, and while I haven’t seen a poll for us Europeans I’m sure we’d love to see it.
Reminder that Canada has a population of over 40 million people and the Canada-US border is three times the length of the Eastern Front in WWII, which is by a long shot the largest front of any war in human history.
So length does matter. 😁
Only if there enough girth (population) to back it up.
So that means there could already be US troops here…omfg! omfg
As of Nov 19, 2024 there are 162 US troops in Canada.
I feel like we should expel them right? Their president is literally threatening annexation
MAGA path to success
- Leave NATO
- Invade Canada, a NATO country, triggering Article 5
- ???
- Profit
“Why would we do that?” said Frank Haynes, a 94-year-old Korean War veteran, who seemed utterly baffled by my absurd question.
That’s pretty much what every American is thinking.
These are modern social psychological wars. If he doesn’t use military he will use social psychology, they same way the did in USA. The idea is to make you guys annex yourself.
Understand American politics like Mafia life. That is the mentality and style. They will get naive people to become their pressure machine. The people won’t even understand what they are doing. Joe Nobody will put pressure on his neighbors for a political mob boss to gain power, but Joe Nobody will think he’s an American hero.
This is how I’ve seen it work in USA since 2016.
Would they be force to create two teams, one NATO team to defend Canada and one team to attacks Canada?
I’m pretty sure NATO is primarily a defensive alliance, so US will likely be on their own if they decide to attack Canada.
Yeah but by contract they would also need to provide defence to Canada! And I’m sure they would respect their contract!
How to make the US go to civil war with this one weird trick!
I don’t think America has the stomach for it. I would expect insubordination and sabotage.
I think we left What If long ago.
True, but I worry that only very left individuals are really talking about this probability. In the big picture, centrists and right wingers don’t believe it will happen. Mother Jones is left, but it’s also a large media company. If we can get more media companies to report on what we think is obvious, it will force the centrists and “I don’t do politics” people to hear it. I hope this article is the start of the discussion in the media, which will take time to happen, unfortunately.
Trump is only serious about it because if Canada isn’t part of the United States, Vice President Musk can never take over when he is gone.
He always is. The only question is if anyone with the power to stop him from doing whatever dumb as fuck thing has entered his diseased mind at the moment will stop him.
