Europe is in the same situation, having depended on America for core systems like modern jets and CIC. The only thing they have going is it would be much more difficult to occupy them beyond what their leaders already agree to.
If yall did start economicly decoupling, buying Chinese hardware, and training everyone to wage an asymetric war a la Finland, the calculus for the people who want Canada to remain a US vassal shifts to “OK, we can accept a hostile state on our border, or we can have a 3 day special operation and drive right to KievTorontoOttawa and be welcomed as liberators. And the longer we wait, the more difficult option 2 will be.”
While helping dismantle the evil empire is unambiguously good for humanity, I genuinely don’t think you have a better option than accept whatever yall are subject to.
Europe is in the same situation, having depended on America for core systems like modern jets and CIC. The only thing they have going is it would be much more difficult to occupy them beyond what their leaders already agree to.
If yall did start economicly decoupling, buying Chinese hardware, and training everyone to wage an asymetric war a la Finland, the calculus for the people who want Canada to remain a US vassal shifts to “OK, we can accept a hostile state on our border, or we can have a 3 day special operation and drive right to
KievTorontoOttawa and be welcomed as liberators. And the longer we wait, the more difficult option 2 will be.”While helping dismantle the evil empire is unambiguously good for humanity, I genuinely don’t think you have a better option than accept whatever yall are subject to.