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Editorial: Trump underestimates how proud, united and, most importantly, petty Canadians are
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this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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Did americans forget about the time we burned down their Whitehouse?
For my reply, I would like to link to this Hark! A vagrant comic that will explain exactly how Americans feel about the war of 1812.
do it again please
I mean....we did it twice. Here's an educational song by ~~The Arrogant Worms~~ Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, a great Canadian comedic ~~folk~~ band.
It's actually by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie (also Canadian). I don't really know how it got attributed to The Arrogant Worms, but it was probably Napster's fault.
Fixt. Yeah, never shows as anything but Arrogant Worms. I'll stop misattributing it. Thanks for the heads up buddy π
As an American that lived in Canada for a few years.
Yes. I mean, first of all it was over 200 years ago. And Americans aren't generally great with history. Second, we don't really think about it as Canadians. I was at least taught it was British troops, which is accurate, but I never really made the connection that it was really Canadians until I lived in Canada and a Canadian made the claim.
Technically it was British troops. The people who burned down the White House sailed from Bermuda and never entered Canada. However, the bulk of the fighting during that war was done by Canadians, and it was Canadians that drove back the American invasion.
They have since upgraded the Whitehouse with fire-resistant materials, premise security, and anti-missile systems.
It's such a shame Canada never saw the need to advance their military technology beyond muskets and smoothbores or they'd be able to do something anyways.
Actually, a bunch of smoothbore cannons would still work, I think.
Do you know how impossible it would be to invade canada? It would be the most damaging war of attrition ever fought. Our population is so spread out, our land border is huge, and we could keep moving around high value targets/waging guerrilla style warfare basically endlessly. Its not like theres many chokepoints or strategic locations that could be very easily held onto. Just look at ukraine and imagine that but way worse. Plus having to defend your own border against people who look and speak just like you and could disappear into your population effortlessly. The resistance would destroy the US and probably end up with them turning on their own population.
Currently we rank 28th of 145 in terms of military strength.
There's some reporting that may or may not be reliable (hence not linked,) saying that there's plans in place to fight against American invasion. Everything I've seen, and the little I've discussed with my friends in the Canadian forces, seems to suggest a quick response to buy time for the majority of our forces to arm and equip themselves, then to fight a guerrilla war. We're under staffed, underfunded (relatively speaking,) but highly trained, and extremely motivated. That's not taking into account the fact that there's a largeish portion of the population who are registered gun owners (roughly 25% national population,) the majority of those being long rifles. A history of an avid hunting culture across the whole country, means likely formation of militia groups doing ambush sniping, and lots of strikes on logistics and infrastructure.
We also have a lot of new citizens and PRs who were active in the Bosnian conflict, fighting for both sides. All this would make invading Canada initially easy, and then a long slow bleed.
But wtf do I know, I've never served, and I'm just a Stone Mason. Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.....
Wonder if the anti missile systems still work if we shut off NORAD first?
I mean, wait a few more weeks...Trump, Musk and D.O.G.E will probably "efficiency" NORAD out of functionality, if not out of existence entirely.
Canadians sure haven't!
And the fact that it was actually British regulars...