• ZJBlank@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Realistically, the US could still defeat us pretty quickly, militarily. The ensuing Canadian insurgency though, that’s another matter. It’d be like Iraq all over again.

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      USA has shown time and time again that they can do absolutely nothing against a barely structured insurgency. If the canadian military has been paying the slightest bit of attention for the past 70 years, they know not to defend against USA by conventional methods.

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        Population of Iraq: 48 million

        Population of Canada: 41 million

        Area of Iraq: 438,000 km²

        Area of Canada: 9.98 million km²

        US-Iraq Border: 0 km

        US-Canada Border: 8,900 km

        A US invasion of Canada would make Iraq look like a pleasant afternoon picnic in the park.

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          Plus, Iraq was an incompetent, unpopularely totalitarian dictatorship. And that’s before you even go to the cultural and ethnic advantages we’d have as guerillas against the US.