Unfortunately, yes. The best way to dissuade them from trying is to act as if they will. Still, military spending ranks low on people’s priority list. At least Carney takes it more seriously than his predecessor did.
Money spent on soldiers, bases, equipment, etc. would be absolutely useless when the US Military simply double tap every single military base in the country in the first 10 minutes. There are only 27 across Canada. Even if we added 100 new bases to spread things out they could easily do the same thing still. We are far too close, and the military capability difference is absurdly ridiculous.
The two possible things I could think of that would realistically make the US think twice, a) handing out guns and training to civilians en masse and b) a PR campaign to the US population (and military) that may lead to a refusal to invade by the troops.
Unfortunately, yes. The best way to dissuade them from trying is to act as if they will. Still, military spending ranks low on people’s priority list. At least Carney takes it more seriously than his predecessor did.
No amount of realistic military spending by Canada would help this situation.
Sure it will. We have to be a less appealing target than someone else. No one is saying we can go toe to toe with the US.
Best we can hope for is for them to pick a softer target and make a drawn out insurgency inevitable.
Money spent on soldiers, bases, equipment, etc. would be absolutely useless when the US Military simply double tap every single military base in the country in the first 10 minutes. There are only 27 across Canada. Even if we added 100 new bases to spread things out they could easily do the same thing still. We are far too close, and the military capability difference is absurdly ridiculous.
The two possible things I could think of that would realistically make the US think twice, a) handing out guns and training to civilians en masse and b) a PR campaign to the US population (and military) that may lead to a refusal to invade by the troops.
I’m pretty sure A isn’t going to happen.