Didn't they waste all their armament on Iran? And I doubt U.S. soldiers would actually follow that kind of order without any objection. They're stupid, but not that stupid.

However. Maybe it's time I apply for that gun license...

[–] ZJBlank@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Realistically, the US could still defeat us pretty quickly, militarily. The ensuing Canadian insurgency though, that’s another matter. It’d be like Iraq all over again.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

USA has shown time and time again that they can do absolutely nothing against a barely structured insurgency. If the canadian military has been paying the slightest bit of attention for the past 70 years, they know not to defend against USA by conventional methods.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Population of Iraq: 48 million

Population of Canada: 41 million

Area of Iraq: 438,000 km²

Area of Canada: 9.98 million km²

US-Iraq Border: 0 km

US-Canada Border: 8,900 km

A US invasion of Canada would make Iraq look like a pleasant afternoon picnic in the park.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Plus, Iraq was an incompetent, unpopularely totalitarian dictatorship. And that's before you even go to the cultural and ethnic advantages we'd have as guerillas against the US.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ba'athist Iraq never remotely came back, so that's a funny choice of example.