Summary
Mark Carney, frontrunner for Canadian Liberal Party leadership and potential prime minister, stated Canada will stand up to a bully after Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canadian imports.
Carney vowed to retaliate by matching the US tariffs dollar for dollar, asserting Canada would not cave in despite mounting pressure.
He criticized Trump for undermining trade agreements, warning that the tariffs would damage the US global reputation and economic stability.
Outgoing Prime Minister Trudeau promised a forceful, immediate response, emphasizing unity as Canada defends its economic interests, ensuring national prosperity.
I think you underestimate how savagely Canadian resistance would treat invading Americans. Canadians are also incredibly patriotic. Terrorism and brutality would be the best defense in a war that was already unpopular and everyone knows it.
Additionally, they are used to environmental hardships the average American grunt isnt prepared for. The nation is massive and full of inhospitable wilderness to melt into.
It would be a long, brutal, drawn out guerilla war. Yes, the US would steamroll the Canadian military. After that it would be hell for those on the ground.
Its all fantasy anyway because the US has no reason to actually invade Canada. Trump just says it to rile people up and pundits are just licking his asshole when they agree.
“Savage” resistance, “terrorism” and “brutality” are kinda expected in an affair which is by definition a lot of people killing each other because of a disagreement.
That just means some time and effort to prepare the average American grunt.
You can see a dog from a satellite in all of that wilderness.
I know it’s fantasy, I just get irritated by fairy tale talk about warfare when there are plenty of wars disproving such myths going on right now. Your myths are not very different from what people in other parts of the world have or had.
The iraq war was a rousing success.
War yes, peace no. If you know many Canadians who’d act as suicide bombers, maybe the analogy is correct.
Just - being livid about something is not the same as sacrificing your life to fight it.
People talking about savagery and brutality don’t quite get, it seems, that they’ll likely die very soon. But when faced with a decision. That’s the point where most go to their occupations other than writing heroics in the interwebs.
There are plenty of people in the US itself calling Trump fascist etc, are they committing such acts of resistance as to force fascism out of their areas? Why would anything with Canada be much different?
In any case, I’m just getting that feel that many things in the world will be remade with pain and blood. I doubt Canada is among them.
I dont think you know anything about this country.
Also who said anything about suicide bombers? I know many Canadians that would absolutely risk their lives in the face of an invasion. That doesnt mean having to strap bombs to yourself.
Watching your own country fall into fascism is very different from being invaded by a fascist neighbor.
Not every Canadian would fight but enough to form a brutal resistance movement? Absolutely.