[Thanos]

Don't talk to me or my son Zipperfish ever again.

[Vbeacher]

I'm shocked the husband of Catherine McKenna would have that sort of attitude about our military! Shocked!

[Zipperfish]

Thanos Thanos:

Don't talk to me or my son Zipperfish ever again.

Thanks dad!

[Zipperfish]

I think the US learned it's lesson in 1812.

[herbie]

OMG! OMG! What are we gonna do when 10,000,000 Russians on snowmobiles cross 5,000 kms of ice or Li'l Kimmie sends 5,000 ships and lands 1/4 million troops on the shores of Tofino?
Goddam surrender-monkey Trudeau better stop stealing veterans pensions and invest the $50 billion in newer fax machines ASAP

[Vbeacher]

The Russians aren't interested in crossing 5,000 km of tundra and territory to get to Toronto. They'll simply make claim to all the oil, gas and other resources found off our northern coast as climate change allows for it to be exploited and then smirk at us when we complain.

[Vbeacher]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

I think the US learned it's lesson in 1812.

Half of them weren't even interested in fighting. Right now, the US is so much bigger, the New York City Police Department has more armed people than the Canadian Armed Forces, who have something like four regiments of infantry, none at anwhere near full strength. We might have about 8,000 infantry vs 30,000 armed police in New York.

[Thanos]

Too big a country, too small a population, too prohibitively expensive to even effectively patrol it, much less defend it all. Not that this provides any excuse for both the Liberals and Tories to allow the military to rot since the 1960's, or an excuse for the general indifference the Canadian people have towards military issues. Realistically though? We'd have a hard time defending a country the size of Spain or Italy with our population size and with the urban dispersal we have that's concentrated along the 49th parallel.

[Freakinoldguy]

herbie herbie:

OMG! OMG! What are we gonna do when 10,000,000 Russians on snowmobiles cross 5,000 kms of ice or Li'l Kimmie sends 5,000 ships and lands 1/4 million troops on the shores of Tofino?
Goddam surrender-monkey Trudeau better stop stealing veterans pensions and invest the $50 billion in newer fax machines ASAP

Once again your usual anti military vitriolic is greatly appreciated. So, please stand up and take a bow, because without the unflagging support of people like you, pretty much every Canadian Gov't since WWII wouldn't have had the guts to slowly destroy a once great institution that made such sacrifices to ensure our freedoms.

[Zipperfish]

Vbeacher Vbeacher:

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

I think the US learned it's lesson in 1812.

Half of them weren't even interested in fighting. Right now, the US is so much bigger, the New York City Police Department has more armed people than the Canadian Armed Forces, who have something like four regiments of infantry, none at anwhere near full strength. We might have about 8,000 infantry vs 30,000 armed police in New York.

"Conquering Canada will be merely a matter of marching" --Thomas Jefferson.
"Holy fuck, we just got our asses whupped" --James Madison

[herbie]

Oh that's a good one. The ice will probably melt in 50 years so we better buy those brand new fax machines today so they'll be obsolete too.
And the Martians might invade too, we better upgrade the bazookas and buy new tanks to defend ourselves. Maybe even some zeppelins so we can bomb ragtags in Toyota trucks when they come to "get" us.

[bootlegga]

I misread the byline - I thought this was satire by Scott Taylor from Espirit de Corps, but it looks like the author may actually be serious.

[bootlegga]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Vbeacher Vbeacher:

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

I think the US learned it's lesson in 1812.

Half of them weren't even interested in fighting. Right now, the US is so much bigger, the New York City Police Department has more armed people than the Canadian Armed Forces, who have something like four regiments of infantry, none at anwhere near full strength. We might have about 8,000 infantry vs 30,000 armed police in New York.

"Conquering Canada will be merely a matter of marching" --Thomas Jefferson.
"Holy fuck, we just got our asses whupped" --James Madison

I think you'd find a surge of patriotism if the US actually invaded us...at least for a little while.

I'm not sure how dedicated the current generation of military recruits (most Millenials) would be long term. I like to think they'd be as nasty as the Iraqis or Afghans were, but I also think the last couple generations have had it too good and couldn't handle the deprivations necessary to wage a successful guerilla war.

Cut off their access to Twitter and Snapchat and they might just surrender en masse!

[Thanos]

The patriotism surge would last for a week. Then everyone would realize we'd be in a situation identical to that Denmark faced against Nazi Germany. Resistance attacks would mean lives being wasted pointlessly against an opponent so large they wouldn't even regard them as insect bites.