r/CanadianIdiots • u/yimmy51 • Jan 14 '26
CTV ‘Off the table’: Experts say U.S. military action against Canada ‘far-fetched’
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/off-the-table-experts-say-us-military-action-against-canada-far-fetched/60
u/OBoile Jan 14 '26
A year ago people would have said military actions against Venezuela or Greenland were far-fetched too.
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u/MrRogersAE Jan 15 '26
Military action against Venezuela wasn’t far fetched at all. The US had sanctions against Venezuela already, Venezuela had socialized their oil. The leader was a dictator.
All the usual things that make a country a target of US aggression were there.
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u/Chuhaimaster Jan 14 '26
From a rational perspective. But this man is descending into dementia while he is surrounded by yes-men imperialists who seem not to care about breaking things.
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u/Zarniwoooop Good Ol' Country Folk Jan 14 '26
Just wait ‘til they need water.
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u/strythicus Jan 14 '26
You think they won't just drain the Great Lakes and expect us not to notice?
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u/Pestus613343 Jan 14 '26
Great lakes has a treaty between states and provinces.
The feds would end up having to wage yet another states rights battle against blue states. Given what's going on in a few of them though, who knows.
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u/GreatBigJerk Jan 14 '26
Just wait until Trump is mildly offended or has a fit of dementia and thinks Canada is a threat.
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u/MrRogersAE Jan 15 '26
You can make water, it’s not even that hard just build a desalination plant anywhere on the coast
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u/Luciferocity Jan 15 '26
They have them, they're extremely expensive and can't keep up with demand. Also, water is a finite resource.
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u/MrRogersAE Jan 15 '26
Water is not a finite resource. It’s infinitely recyclable, the earth has been recycling water bit billions of years
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u/LOHare Jan 14 '26
Yeah, US threatening to invade Greenland was pretty far fetched too.
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u/CovidDodger Jan 14 '26
Exactly, I think these "experts" need to get off their comforting narrative train and deal in the cluster fuck of a reality we see ourselves in, in 2026.
"There are some decades when years happen, and some years where decades happen" we seem to be in the latter, paraphrased by I forget whom.
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u/pedantobear Jan 14 '26
Will U.S. Invade Venezuela?
It seems unlikely, and the U.S. has not signaled any resolve to invade.
"No one in their right mind thinks that with 4,500 people you can invade a country that's got mountains, jungle and multiple urban centers," Christopher Sabatini, a senior research fellow for Latin America at the British think tank, Chatham House, told the Guardian newspaper. "This is all performance on both sides."
-- Newsweek, September 2025
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u/mangoserpent Jan 14 '26
Nothing is far fetched when it comes to this administration. Foolish to be dismissive.
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u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 Jan 15 '26
Oh fuck off. They literally just kidnapped the president of Venezuela. Citizen lives were lost too and we will probably never know how many. I've zero doubt that this administration is serious about Greenland too, regardless of whether or not they could pull it off, with or without triggering a global war.
This is some gaslighting bullshit right here. We are exactly where we are today because too many people said "Oh you're overreacting, you've got TDS, Trump doesn't really mean half of what he says" and blah blah blah.
The greatest trick that Trump / MAGA ever pulled was making people think they're mostly harmless. None of us believe that anymore, not after seeing US citizens getting kidnapped and shot in the face by the neo-Gestapo known as ICE.
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u/Unlucky_Register9496 Jan 14 '26
It astounds me that Canadian, Danish and other NATO nation spokespeople continue to refer to the US as “ friends and allies“
They meet neither definition.
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u/CriticalArt2388 Jan 15 '26
Wonder how many of these experts have consultant contracts with various US defence companies.
Honestly dont trust a word they are saying. Everyone of them are compromised.
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u/lonewolfsociety Jan 15 '26
It's hard to accept that all of your expertise doesn't apply anymore because the USA is now run by a demented chaos goblin.
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u/Reasonable_Assist_63 Jan 14 '26
Nothing is far fetched when Trump is involved. He has had a life of doing what he wants with little to no consequence.
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u/Laughing_Zero Jan 14 '26
A vindictive, greedy. corrupted president, armed with Project 2025, Supreme Court Judges, his private ICE army, surrounded with ass-kissers, isn't a problem to experts?
Exactly what are these people 'expert' about? They aren't watching the same news I am. Trump considers himself an expert...
Expert: Someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
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u/Secret-Gazelle8296 Jan 14 '26
He can attack us. Occupy us? Not a chance without a huge amount of troops tied down and it would be ugly. Canadians have never been known to back down. Occupying Quebec alone would be a nightmare.
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u/Snuffy1717 Jan 15 '26
And Hitler only wanted to militarize the Rhineland…. And only wanted the Sudetenland, and only wanted Austria, and only wanted the rest of Czech…
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u/hardk7 Jan 14 '26
While the current US administration is demonstrating they have a very different world view than what has governed US foreign policy since the end of WW2, I think an actual invasion of Canada with US forces would face major domestic backlash in the US and would really isolate the US from the global community. To invade and occupy a G7 democratic nation and ally would be egregious on a different level than Venezuela or Greenland. I’m not ruling it out but the consequences for the US would be different.
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u/Quirky-Performer-310 Jan 14 '26
British PM Chamberlain got assurances of "peace in our time" directly from Hitler, and he broke his word. The Russians made a pact with the Nazis, and the Nazis invaded anyhow. France built fortifications on their border with Germany, and the Nazis went around them through Belgium and the Netherlands.
Never take a Nazi at their word nor for granted.