Canada

Cuba has an entire embargo and they didn’t capitulate. There’s not a snowball’s chance in hell of Canada selling our North.

And byw our population is 41m.

I vote we put the United States on a time out.

Every night, we turn off their power for half an hour until they smarten up. And increase the time if they continue to act like toddlers.

And I want Trudeau to announce it exactly like that. "We are putting you under a time out every night because if you're president wants to act like an unruly toddler, he'll be treated like one."

Canada alone might not win a trade war against the US. Good thing for us that Trump is on a streak for pissing off US allies. I really don't care how bad Trump tries to make things in Canada, they are not going to get worse than they currently are in the states. Do you really think millions of Canadians would prefer school shootings to 25% tariffs? Will millions of Canadians trade in their health care and human rights for cheap iPhones? US can go fuck itself. Trump can go fuck his own face. I will die before I become a fucking American.

Trump wants us to kiss the ring, and his puppeteers want to break NATO. That's all that's going on here. There's no grand plan. There's just "satisfy the narcissist's ego" and "destroy the military alliance threatening Russia".

Canada has the best weapon of all: Time. Things might get rough, but we all know that Trump has been getting old. Even if it takes longer than we hope, our economy will adapt to new markets, because it is what economies do.

Just look at what Ukraine has been surviving through for crying out loud. We have it way easier in comparison.

Canada will outlive Trump.

Y'all need to stop watching those Fallout lore videos bro.

First of all, we don't actually have to win the trade war. We just have to hang on for a few years. Trump is an old man. Even if he somehow manages to suspend elections in the US, he'll drop over dead soon enough.

Secondly, do you really think he can hold even Panama long-term against a hostile local population? I don't. Greenland would be even more amusing, since I expect the entire EU would back Denmark. Up here, the weather is still plenty dangerous to anyone he might send—global warming hasn't changed things that much yet. Plus, I don't think his own troops would be too enthusiastic about conducting a war of aggression.

Thirdly, I think you'll find that most of this country wouldn't sell Trump a load of organic fertilizer at this point, much less a substantial chunk of our territory. Not at any price. Everyone except a handful of Albertans is pissed off at him and his government in a big way.

People fight much harder when they have a clear cause and clear enemy.

Right now Trump is giving us one: we’re fighting for Canada, our home and native land. We’re fighting for ourselves, our neighbours, our friends, our families. We’re fighting for our way of life, our healthcare, we fight for everything.

The US is fighting for nothing. Even MAGA conservatives don’t know what Trump is doing. Sun Tzu teaches that is the weakest position to fight from. The US people will falter before a unified and galvanized Canadian front will. Our backs are against the wall and the only option is to fight.

My family came from a small northern Ontario mining community. Times were always hard there but people looked after each other. My grandma grew her own food to stretch their budget. She took in boarders who needed a place to stay and shared what she had. They made do with little and everyone supported each other — that is the Canadian spirit that makes this country great.

Now it’s our turn. I’m supporting whatever our government decides, I want us to fight back tooth and nail. I want to support all the Canadians who are going out of work, and the Canadian businesses that are going to struggle, I’ll pay more taxes to support them, whatever is needed. I’m not buying American products wherever possible, local first always and forever after this. Anything but American. I’m increasing donations to my food bank. I need to start volunteering too.

God keep our land glorious and free!

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

Trump loves to make bombastic threats, to cause pre-emptive capitulation like in the way newspapers and billionaires did.

There is no way Trump will have the bandwidth to respond to Canada's defensive action amidst the rest of the chaos he is causing in government and other fights he decides to pick throughout the week. He might get tired of bullying Canada and move on in a few weeks, might not.

I imagine many Canadians who feel betrayed by our longstanding ally, will defend our sovereignty with whatever it takes. Americans will be unfocused and hampered by their own divisions and internal governmental dysfunction, and no one wants a trade war or real war anyway.

1. Canada's economy only looks bad if you use one metric on the economy, GDP. That metric happens to omit exports as well as public sector.
   E.G. the US spends twice what we do on healthcare, and huge profits are made from it. According to the GDP metric, that means it is better.

In reality, Canadians are doing better than the Americans for health care access and we have the same number of doctors and nurses per capita. We also live longer and are healthier

2. Canada supplies 60% of the US oil. If we want, we have them by the balls and there isn't a damn thing they can do.

If you think the US insurgancy would be bad if they were invaded; you've no idea of Canada's war record.

Don't you guys basically power a bunch of northern us states, and your crude is the biggest % of their oil.

Slap big enough export tariffs on both that the yanks have to think if they can afford it before turning on the lights and their petrol is more expensive than it is in Europe.

Honestly, if Canada and mexico team up, it's easily possible to destroy what slim majority trump has. If the EU joined too, US is gonna have bigger problems.

I've been saying this for over a year now. IT IS GOING TO GET HOT AND THE UNITED STATES WILL NEED NEW LAND. IT WILL INVADE CANADA

Yup, seeing that Trudeau was unable to talk with trump for 2 weeks, it really shows that trump does not give a shit. It's like when he said "I want Panama's canal" and "I want Greenland", it's not a choice, nor a question, it's a fact, and he said he will take them by force with the army. Seeing what he did with Canada/Mexico, you can be sure that he will invades Panama and Denmark.

The only way to resist is a full world embargo on USA.

We can pivot and re-orient our strategies. It'll hurt short term but we'll make it. We don't have to win if we just decide to play a different game.

He thinks Canada is 1930s Austria. That people are just waiting for him to come save them.

Seeing that after years of sanctions, Russia is still here and not as weak as we thought, I guess Canada will survive.

He knows climate change is real

lol