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What do you think is next for Canada and the USA?

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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  • The US will not invade Canada. At some point, it would require political integration. It would be a generation after that before the Republicans won an election.

    There are 40 million people in Canada and more land area than the entire US. At least 75% of Canadians would vote Democrat and that is before the bitterness of an invasion. Even as a single state Canada would swing the House and every President. As multiple states, Canada would swing the Senate. Think of the Supreme Court that would be appointed. The GOP would be completely locked out.

    Just allowing Canadians already in the US to vote would have cost the Republicans every presidential race since Reagan.

    For the above reasons alone, somebody will stop Trump from pulling the trigger. The US will not invade Canada. Even if they did, they would give it back.

    That said, Trump may wage an unbelievably destructive trade war. And the end game for that may be for Canada to submit to total subservience to the US.

    We are in a negotiation. The threat of war is just part of that. We hold some decent cards. By appeasing Trump, we start to lose cards. We can get more cards by aligning with the rest of the world both economically, militarily, and socially as fast as possible. The good news is, the world seems to be there for it.

  • When everything started on Jan 20 and you could see what was happening in the US. Their regime dismantling the government, Musk, DOGE, and tariffs, and it was hard to believe what was happening. Then, the continued threats to Canada, it was all pretty scary.

    Now, 50 something days in, I'm starting to realize they have no plan and no execution, or even no sense to what they're doing. So sure it still feels really unstable and uneasy but less threatening.

    Hopefully, the world will economically destroy Musk just on the principal of his actions. Show billionaires they are not immune.

    I do think it's possible there eventually will be a military action on Canada. I think the most plausible thing I've heard is that Canada would be easy to invade but nearly impossible to hold. That would be a messy situation for both sides. Nobody will be a winner, so it will come down to desire to go down that road. From what I've been hearing, there is only a very low percentage of people on either side of the border who have support of this action.

    In the meantime, I would be happy to see Canada disconnect from America, find new trade partners, and improve our infrastructure. Seems to be what the plans are, so I think we are dealing best we can in the situation we are in.

    True north strong and free.

  • Canada should fund US resistance groups. Fuck waiting these four years. The world will be unfamiliar and unwelcoming.

  • I think we’ll all get on just fine. This is like a toddler tantrum. Just need to cry it out in the corner a bit.

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