Trump’s threats to Canada are not idle boasts and shouldn’t be taken as such. They call for a whole of society response.
Unbelievable shit. You’re brothers from Europe are with you.
Never thought I’d ever say it, but I’m not terribly opposed to an independent Canadian nuclear deterrent these days.
I can think of no other workable solution if we’re serious about remaining Canadian. The Ricans would steamroll us conventionally. Without a credible deterrent, Slobba the Slut could very well ramble himself incoherently from ‘economic pressure’ to ‘occupational force.’ We don’t know what his puppetmasters and wormtongues are whispering in his ear, or how far he and his sycophants are willing to go for a cheaper egg.
Poland is thinking of that.
The eggs must flow
Canada can easily manufacture nukes. We have all of the scientific and technical skills to pull it off. I hope we never need one of the damn things though.
That said if a dump invasion took place I’m sure we could count on France to give us one to decapitate the dump.
The French nuclear umbrella being extended to other EU states is still only a suggestion (though even as just a suggestion it is a very strong political message). What that would mean for French nuclear doctrine in practice is yet unclear. Would France nuke Russian troops/infrastructure/cities and risk all-out nuclear war to protect Romania? Moldova?
Funnily enough the entire reason why France has an independent Nuclear program at all is De Gaulle did not trust the US to risk New York being glassed in order to save Paris from a Russian invasion. Which was probably correct. Unfortunately, the reverse logic also applies and France will not risk Paris being glassed to save Toronto. The only reason why a sovereign European nuclear umbrella makes sense on paper is that an attack on any EU member state hits close enough to home as to arguably be existentially threatening, unlike a war an ocean away.
Unless you meant France selling nukes, but that would violate every nonproliferation treaty out there and just be a complete mess that even with a sane US administration would lead to a complete diplomatic meltdown. The current suicide cult at the helm would probably actually start a nuclear war for less than that.
Saint Pierre and Miquelon is French. Don’t they deserve some love?
It’s French but has a weird legal status where the citizens are French and therefore have an EU passport and vote in EU elections, but it is not part of the EU and Schengen from what I understand.
Anyway technicalities aside, France generally doesn’t care much for its overseas territories. Quality of living varies wildly from territory to territory and there’s still ongoing mid 20th century style colonial oppression in places like Nouvelle-Calédonie.
So while a Falklands type situation is quite possible if anyone tries to invade an overseas French territory, it’s doubtful that France would risk actual nuclear war over one. Especially Saint Pierre and Miquelon which does not have a strategic military value as far as I can tell, unlike other territories which serve as force projection multipliers and have naval bases, especially for the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier and the nuclear deterrence submarines. Without those France wouldn’t be able to operate in the Pacific theater.
I’m not sure we can. Our reactors don’t produce the right material, I think. We should buy from France, tomorrow.
CANDU reactors don’t make Pu out of the natural U we use as we break down to daughter elements. That being said, two things:
- We have lots of U. Enrichment is new to us, but we would be technically capable of starting. U bombs are possible, but not preferred for various reasons.
- If India can get Pu from a CIRUS (which was basically a NRX), we could develop nuclear weapon fuel here.
After some quick interneting, apparently we have the technical and industrial capacity to do so, but lack intention, having committed to peaceful, civilian use of the technology through non-proliferation treaties, etc.
I mean, in an ideal world, that’s how it should be.
Sorry I didn’t mean we can’t of course we can given the people we have. I meant that I think we don’t have the benefit of our reactors producing fissile material suitable for weapons. Could be wrong.
We can’t build one now. But we have the capability of doing it very quickly if we needed to.
The issue though, is doing it in secret. If the Yanks WERE to find out that we’re doing it, that would give them enough reason to start military force. I mean, Russia invaded Ukraine for less reason.
What Canada needs is to join the EU. Or at least, form a protective agreement with the EU which ensures military protection.
I would very much rather we err on the side of caution when it comes to our sovereignty and Trumps erratic, ego driven foreign policy.
Increasing domestic drone and munition (mortar shells, AT mines, grenades) production would be valuable too.
Indeed. Due to our proximity to the US, short/medium ranged arms would be ideal.
Maybe we can talk the French into give us a few TNA’s 😉
This is the kind of thing where I hope we are secretly working on this and are able to make an imminent announcement to make it crystal clear not to test us.
This isn’t the case.
I am very glad that Canadians are uniting and sticking up for their local businesses like never before, but we cannot lose sight of what the real danger is.
The US is very unlikely to launch a physical invasion. It would be extremely foolish for numerous reasons, chief of them being our massive unprotected border and how our major urban centres are right beside US cities. We are not a country on the other side of the globe.
No, the real danger is the US economically weakening us and putting us into a position where we are forced to capitulate much like Mexico. Canada does have leverage over the US but that only remains if we protect our industries which make up our economic backbone. Donald placed a 250% tariff on Canadian dairy which, on paper, seems pointless because the US doesn’t really buy any Canadian dairy. But it does send a message that he knows dairy is a protected industry in Canada and he wants to attack it.
It is so important that we have leaders willing to protect these industries and be willing to spend money to expand them.
Ah yes. I’m glad we can be so confident the current administration would never do something foolish or damaging to themselves or others.
Also it only took them days to stop multi drug resistant tuberculosis treatment half way, and giving countless babies HIV that wouldn’t have had it, if not for the recent actions of this administration. Or blatantly and loudly planning an ethnic genocide. Also following the putin method by the letter, and letting Russian media into the oval office while they try to put down Zelenskyy.
Hmm, what is the Russian ‘go to’ behaviour for shared borders?
I think we need to be developing anti drone tech among other things. I’m not saying it will happen, and it would likely instigate or be included in a civil war. I would usually think all of this sounds crazy, but we live in unprecedented times, full of familiar historical rhymes. I’m sure their preference is to take over without having to actually fight, so they can grow their power, but also things might escalate as they continue to rob and abuse the masses. There are more reasons than i can summize here, but I think pretending there is no danger is wilfully ignorant at this point. I hope for the best, but I don’t trust these people to not be thoughtlessly monstrous.
Canada will be waiting fuckers!
just lure them to the high artic, and the yukon the fat slobs will just donnor party each other very quickly. canada also has to option to cut off all traffic to ALASKA.
God damn right we will. Stock up now folks. There are loads of things you can have on hand to be ready and simple training you can get in a weekend or two to assist.
What training do you suggest?
First aid.
Drone operation or building
PAL for firearms.
Cooking classes.
How to grow, forage, harvest foods.
Food storage. Canning, dehydrating, fermenting, curing, root cellars, refrigeration.
Train on HAM Radio and find trusted independent alternate media sources and follow CBC and open source social media for news and organizing.
Fitness of all kinds including self defense.
Survival or wilderness experience.
Learn to drive a standard transmission or a large truck or operate a piece of heavy equipment or large farm equipment.
Small engine repair or basic construction skills.
Those with medical training update your trauma training.
Consider joining the reserves.
Learn how to operate a chainsaw.
Rescue training.
High angle and confined space training.
Swimming lessons, diving lessons, boating course.
Computer programming, design and 3D printing.
Classes on the manipulation tactics of social media.
Create permanent personal media backups of important information including Wikipedia, entertainment, and Foss based software that can operate free of internet connections or obscure your location and personal information to the best of your ability.
Volunteer at a local mutual aid org (food banks, search and rescue, volunteer fire or ambulance, community gardens, drop in centers, youth training programs, libraries, municipal rec departments etc.)
Contact your MLA, MP, Mayor and Council about starting a civil defense League and leaving social media sites from American oligarchs.
And most of all organize. Talk to your neighbors and friends about what they are doing to prepare. Help one another. There are so many things we can do to educate ourselves and find like minded community members to start organizing. The organizing and meeting people is what makes us stronger. The rest is just a bonus.
Add HAM radio to the list!
Good one. Will do.
To add : Support communication infrastructure outside of AWS : that can be as simple as showing up on Lemmy regularly, visiting CBC website and a variety of Canadian information sources all the way to having a computer offline with a copy of early 2025 Wikipedia and various open sources software and decent local LLM.
Community involvement will be for two objectives: increasing preparedness is evident but also your own mental health that will be way more stable with you actively doing something tangible + the support network.
Wow this is epic!!! Thanks for sharing. Every Canadian needs to step up with this stuff.
This is a great list, and considering I am approaching old, happy to report that it’s almost like my non-work CV. Feeling nearly prepped, never fully.
ADHD has been good for gathering a basic set of skills in a wide range of situations.
Next is to play with community mesh networks and work on the Ham radio experience.
Same. I basically just detailed my life in a list. I did leave out how to make hockey ice but maybe that should be included as well. Seems strange to be old and realize you can do so many things. Also mostly due to unchecked ADHD and PTSD in my circumstance.
Today was a good example. Source Canadian beta-Amylase for oat milk (actually failed though), operate on a chicken foot, hang housing for mason bees, sharpen a chainsaw; replace a laptop battery, convert EDE database files to .vcf, troubleshoot bluetooth DRM bugs; casual cabinetry and a curry feast. Technopeasant reality.
Oh and download 40GB of family data in preparation for deleting Amazon Prime. We’re going with Syncthing and Immich. Divest and Deny!
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Yea I know it’s a sketch situation there. The entire military is. Until there are other training options available I guess that’s what we have.
This could be pretty scary if the US had an evil and competent leader.
Given Jabba the Trump’s track record, he’ll surrender in about 3 months.
That’d be true if he felt any kind of discomfort from attacking Canada, but the reality is that he’d be willing to do whatever makes him look strong as long as others are doing the dying
Yeah we need deterrents. This shit ain’t funny anymore and there’s no guarantee Trump will be the last in the string of fascists.
Exactly they’re repopulating themselves like cancer. On socials they’re regurgitating MAGA/Trump bs talking points. It’s the American culture at this point to do hostile takeovers. They’ve always been this way. We just never thought it would happen to us.
His son is already floating the idea of running in 2028, so the wild ride with this particular fascistic dynasty is far from over. It will probably continue into the next decade or so, at the very least. And if Canada maintains its sovereignty over the next four years, that does not mean we’re in the clear. Far from it.
I’m 100% with you on ‘deterrents.’ I think it would reveal an extreme lack of competence, not to mention a dangerous lack of planning for our leaders not to consider seriously the idea of a robust deterrent at this point. I hope it’s already being floated.
The fact that our leadership created the conditions for or allowed to worsen our over-reliance on a single trading partner doesn’t speak much to the levels of competence we should expect out of Ottawa.
i declare war to start on march 25th
actually war is pushed back to April 1st
ok it’s war time! wait why is my economy hurting, pause the war
ok war for real now. wait, sorry one sec, war partially pushed back to next month
why is Canada attacking us?
Imagine marching troops in only to retreat after 18 hours of something stupid.
Who had ‘Canada invokes article 5 as Trump prepares land grab over price of eggs.’
You’ve heard of Lebensraum, but who expected we’d be worrying about trumps insatiable lust for Eierraum.
I really think that if you ignore him he would forget Canada even exists.
