@JustinDerrick @chad
I think perhaps you misunderstood me.
I'm aware the #USA has the largest #military #budget in the world, by far. They might even arguably be the best-equipped
. If they did choose to conquer #Canada by force, they could squash us like a bug.
I didn't dispute any of that. I doubt many would.
I dispute that the USA would do so, even with a #nutjob at the helm. There are still various checks and balances in the US system of government, even with Mango Mussolini chomping at the bit. There are many, many decent, principled, honourable people making up much of the leadership of their military forces. He's not going to issue that order, because calmer heads will prevail, and if he did, it wouldn't be followed.
"Militarily conquer a partner in your decades-old, well-respected shared-defence pact on a whim" isn't going to pass the sniff test anywhere in #NATO, not even in the USA.
It's been a few years since I was on a CF base. But I still talk to people on both sides of the border.