Canada

Greece and Turkey have fights occasionally. NATO doesn't care. Mark Rutte smiled at invasion threat of Greenland, saying it is not a NATO matter.

Maybe. We hope.

Europe has their hands full at the moment with Ukraine.

Bit different in this scenario. Not only would the idea of fighting the most powerful military on earth cause hesitation, but they'd be doing it from across the ocean where the us would no doubt have their navy stationed with nuclear submarines, destroyers, and air craft carriers. That, and if Russia is going to become more aggressive, which Trump is obviously empowering him to do, Europe needs to worry about itself. We are right next to them as well meaning they would be able to take us with almost no trouble. So nato would now have to conquer the us not just defend against it. Also, nato has never been tested in a situation like this. We don't know if the alliance would just fall apart or something. As a Canadian, I'm not really counting on them too much since the idea of them actually successfully protecting us seems completely out to lunch. I'm thinking nato falls apart once the us leaves it and is replaced by a more European oriented military alliance.

I wish I had your faith.

Trump wants out of nato... and our allies know this, and they are distancing themselves already.

If we go to any war, we go alone.. nobody is coming to our aid.

And hegseth force retired 17000 troops for being trans. Let me tell you Canadian brothers and sisters, less than 1% of our current population is eligible to enlist in the military, due to obesity, medical history, mental health.

We can't meet our recruitment goals, retention sucks. Oh but hegseth is coming now for those still in by reviewing grooming and fitness standards. That will probably get rid of 45% of the forces..

Oh yeah let's invade our neighbors.

We will not be a country by the end of this administration.

I agree with the lack of logic, as Trump yesterday announced wartime powers, using the pretense of being at war with gangs to justify the order.

That said, I don't see any invasion being based upon any real need, even from an economic level. In fact, such an act will be extremely counterproductive and will harm not only their general economy, but the bottom line of many of their top businesses. Not to mention that any project to extract Canadian resources that aren't already abundant in the US will take at least a half decade to even start producing, with profits only emerging two decades after any annexation at best.

And that presumes that any extraction is done quickly and smoothly. Frankly speaking, the issue is that to extract most things at scale, everything needs to be built up from the ground level, including roads.

That doesn't even start with the liklihood of constant protests and vandalism, including some crazies that try to shoot out tires and critical equipment.

Has Been doing that for hundreds of years. But that's a problem for prehistoric people. Modern tech can fix all that....Lemmy see...the boring compan...ah shit. Nevermind!

Possibly yeah. One day.

To be fair, I live in the middle and it hit -40°C this winter

I live in San Diego. You are quite a bit colder than what we get. You can keep your snow, if I want to go snowboarding, I have an ocean less than a mile away, and there's always the mountains an hour and a half drive to the east.

Surfing and snowboarding are remarkably similar activities.

as an American this is a stupid point because our democracy is over

As if they would give us senators and equal voting rights. The US is now a hostile rogue nation on par with the DPRK and Venezuela as far as I'm concerned.

Anything that benefits anyone who isn't rich and white is woke.

We (Americans) also basically failed at nearly every single engagement that was an attempted incursion into British/Canadian territory or attack on a British fort/settlement west of the US proper, they were pretty much all either repulsed, or only initially successful for a short amount of time and then driven out.

I could be wrong, but I am willing to bet that many of those soldiers opposing the Americans involved in initial American incursions into Canada were British soldiers who lived in Canada, and/or were Native/First Nations allies of the British, and are thus proto-Canadians, unlike the Royal Navy and Marines who showed up in force within about a year, and were then withdrawn after the US basically sued for peace.

I agree that it's an oversimplification to view the entire war as just US vs a nascent Canada, but I also think it's an oversimplification to view the entire war as the US vs the UK.

Also I didn't state that Canadians burned down DC. I said that the last time the US fucked with Canada, the result was our capitol being burned down.

Sure, but The Geneva Convention is quite literally a list of things that The Canadians did in WWI that we collectively agreed was going a bit too far for war.

It's also not a war crime if you're not enlisted.