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What do you think is next for Canada and the USA? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 21 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm wondering what everyone else thinks is in our future as Canadians?

Do we think Trump is going to be stupid enough to try to invade Canada or redraw border lines?

Will the trade war continue for years or will Trump wuss out like last time?

We we continue to buy US products after they've now screwed us a second time?

I know I'm in the camp that whatever happens, I'm planning on completely excluding the USA from my life as much as possible.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

But personally I believe the US would descend into civil war before this happens

Which doesn’t mean we shouldn’t prepare for this possibility, starting yesterday.

We can use the money we were pissing away on F35s to create a national corps, who would be trained in the types of guerrilla warfare we’d need in this scenario. And be cross-trained to respond to climate emergencies such as floods and hurricanes and fires. And help build out infrastructure to shore up our east-west corridors and access to the north.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I so hope those F35s do not come to Canada, I know it will be a learning curve that pilots and mechanics will have to under go if we get the other ones but as I understand it we will get the rights to make replacement parts and do the repairs to the European ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

as I understand it we will get the rights to make replacement parts and do the repairs to the European ones.

That should be the default for any military equipment.

Having our armed forces reliant of the goodwill of some other country is a risk to the military ability to do their job.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

I hope they do - the 16 we've committed to buying anyway - and that as soon as they arrive our engineers immediately start taking them apart so that we can incorporate their technology into our own planes or planes produced by our actual allies. The ones we don't take apart can be used in exercises to determine the best ways to shoot them down.