Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not rule out sending Canadian troops to Ukraine as part of a possible ceasefire deal, when asked about the prospect during a peace and security summit Monday in Kyiv.
A few thousand soldiers isn’t going to be spit in the wind against the US military. Might as well get some good training for them with Ukrainian drone operators against a larger foe.
A few thousand soldiers isn’t going to be spit in the wind against the US military.
A rough estimate puts national gun ownership at around 26%. Ownership is inconsistent, with higher per capita in towns with less than 1 million people. A 1997 estimate puts collective ownership at that time around 7 million firearms, with 1.2 million being of the restricted category.
If less than 50% of gun owners decide to join an insurgency, and say 10-20% of non-owner run support… it’s gonna be a bad fucking time for the US. They also historically have a hard time dealing with insurgents, asymmetric warfare has always been very hard for them to deal with.
In 1984, the Irish Republican Army tried to kill British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with a bomb. They did not succeed, but they did send a message. “You have to be lucky all the time. We only have to be lucky once."
The trouble with insurgents is that they’re the town doctor, the kid who pumps your gas, and the soccer mom you see every day on your way to put boots to necks.
We are of one mind on this. The USA got their balls chopped off in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, slinking off in ignominy after Raytheon made their billions. We’d kick them out of Canada, too.
It would suck, and we’d probably end up being run by dictators for a generation or two, but that’s a problem we could face.
Absolutely. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to worst case scenario. Hopefully they’ll tear themselves apart, we end up with a few new provinces/territories, the Nazis get to dance the dangling jig, and we all get pissed on a Canada day BBQ.
It’s pretty sad when the preferred scenario for Canada is a civil war in America. But if there’s anyone who can beat the Americans, it’s other Americans.
I think they meant the few thousand that would be sent to Ukraine, not that there would only be a few thousand soldiers in total. Winning or losing wouldn’t be dictated on the handful of soldiers that might be in Ukraine.
Canadian troops are a Peacekeeping force. We almost never put boots on the ground unless there’s a ceasefire or peace agreement, and we’re there to enforce it.
So yeah, the game would likely already be up by the time we got there.
A few thousand soldiers isn’t going to be spit in the wind against the US military. Might as well get some good training for them with Ukrainian drone operators against a larger foe.
If it’s part of a peace deal they wouldn’t be seeing actual combat, but I guess you never know with Russia. Still good experience though.
A rough estimate puts national gun ownership at around 26%. Ownership is inconsistent, with higher per capita in towns with less than 1 million people. A 1997 estimate puts collective ownership at that time around 7 million firearms, with 1.2 million being of the restricted category.
If less than 50% of gun owners decide to join an insurgency, and say 10-20% of non-owner run support… it’s gonna be a bad fucking time for the US. They also historically have a hard time dealing with insurgents, asymmetric warfare has always been very hard for them to deal with.
The trouble with insurgents is that they’re the town doctor, the kid who pumps your gas, and the soccer mom you see every day on your way to put boots to necks.
We are of one mind on this. The USA got their balls chopped off in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, slinking off in ignominy after Raytheon made their billions. We’d kick them out of Canada, too.
It would suck, and we’d probably end up being run by dictators for a generation or two, but that’s a problem we could face.
Absolutely. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to worst case scenario. Hopefully they’ll tear themselves apart, we end up with a few new provinces/territories, the Nazis get to dance the dangling jig, and we all get pissed on a Canada day BBQ.
It’s pretty sad when the preferred scenario for Canada is a civil war in America. But if there’s anyone who can beat the Americans, it’s other Americans.
I think they meant the few thousand that would be sent to Ukraine, not that there would only be a few thousand soldiers in total. Winning or losing wouldn’t be dictated on the handful of soldiers that might be in Ukraine.
Canadian troops are a Peacekeeping force. We almost never put boots on the ground unless there’s a ceasefire or peace agreement, and we’re there to enforce it.
So yeah, the game would likely already be up by the time we got there.
Wut? Canada’s contribution to peacekeeping is 20-30 troops per year.
Afghanistan.
We can already assume that the US will not follow the Geneva Convention. You guys know what to do.
It’s been a while since a new Geneva Checklist item was added because of Canadian soldiers. I’m sure we could come up with some new ones if pressed.
It’s not a war crime the first time.
Before we teamed up with the Polish, it was only a Geneva Checklist…