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Regimes like this only respond to incredible violence. They believe rules and laws and norms that don’t serve them don’t apply to them. All the systems designed to resist this bullshit are ignored completely because they just opt out of society’s rules while rewriting them on the fly to serve exclusively them.
This ends a couple of different ways. One is they encounter a bigger bully. They are all loyalists that cannot strategize, cooperate, and execute a plan. It’s yes men all the way down. So if someone powerful enough takes a swing, they don’t have the ability to respond. In this case, Canada invading the US with resources supplied by other nations concerned they are next makes the most sense. This administration wouldn’t be able to respond with anything other than tantrums online and on TV.
The other way this ends is letting them do whatever they want. They need an enemy to survive. Eventually they run out of enemies and have to invent new ones. We are already at that point. They divide the population up into good guys and bad guys and eliminate the bad guys, then they do it again, getting smaller and smaller each time until there’s no longer enough people left to sustain them. This is not the way we want as most of the US would have to die off for it to work but it is sort of the default mode of extinction for fascism.
The only method that works with fascists and results in the fewest casualties is incredible overwhelming violence. It’s been done before and worked because it was the best option, even if it’s still a terrible one.
But here’s where the propaganda machine protects the fascists. People are already ready for the incredible violence. The country is on a cliff edge right now. But we are so divided and dependent on TV and social media that we are told to attack eachother instead of the fascists. Most of us don’t want to do that.
So we wait for extinction.
And they're likely begging for the violence so they bourgeoisie can feed on the war machine.
They certainly have the resources but we have the numbers. Just wait a little longer for their failing propaganda machine to fuck this up.
Stopped reading there, LMFAO! Say what you want about leadership, but the US military is still extremely effective, as proved a couple days ago. I don't recall the last time I've ever read a dumber take, ~70k troops invading 1.5 million 😂
It’s not about whose military is better. Canada is right in our backyard with a very wide physical border with the United States. Your mistake is in assuming they are limited to exclusively using their military, who history has shown should not be underestimated.
Nope!
Consider that most of the world is very pissed at us right now and we pose a threat to literally all of them. Now all that land in Canada leaves a lot of room for foreign military bases to go up very quickly and there is fuck all the US can do about it.
But sure, branding always decides the outcome of conflicts.
Canada invade with their 70k military.
US imposes a blockade with more aircraft carriers than rest of the world combined.
US military proceeds to shred Canada's, as they outnumber them 20-1. Please recall Canadian troop imports are cut off.
US smirks, as 2/3 Canadians live within 100km of the boarder.
Branding doesn't decide conventional wars, spending 100x more on blowing tan people up instead of funding hospitals and education does.
Thinking Canada could try or would even contemplate initiating national suicide is clown shit there bud. Reality sadly doesn't care about wishful thinking.
To paraphrase Lincoln, 'Shall we expect some transatlantic giant to crush us with a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa with all the treasure of the earth could not take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must be the author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we shall live forever, or die by suicide.'
The Canadian government is working on making a 300,000 civilian army as we speak. Also, since the USA has no more rule of law who's to say Canada has to follow the Geneva Convention anymore. Turnabout is fair play, no?
-sigh-
How’s Russia doing right now?
Thanks for playing.
Ah, remind me, how did Russia's attempt to capture Zelenskyy go?