International Canada’s armed forces are planning to enhance defense programs to deter American threats on sovereignty

[TUFNewb]

General Carignan says she is regularly besieged after public appearances by Canadians ready to serve. Before Christmas a senior citizen implored her to deploy him, despite his age. “He said, ‘Listen, I can’t carry a rifle and go to war, but I’m out there scanning the internet. I can help. Let me know how I can help you’.

LOL!

Canadian boomers really are something else. Has there ever been a group of people so triggered by something Trump said? They must take the cake.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

LOL!

Canadian boomers really are something else. Has there ever been a group of people so triggered by something Trump said? They must take the cake.

To be fair the other places he said should be part of America he's actually trying to make last of America and everyone said he was trolling.

 

[lsa]

Trump's playing it all backwards.

What Trump should be doing is pulling all American activity from the Arctic region, tempt Russia/China to assert Arctic control, and then have Canada/Denmark beg the USA for protection.

Carney can pull a double political win by announcing he's pulling money from Indigenous affairs to pay for increased military spending.

There is no real American protection, US has 120 soldiers in Greenland..
US needs to own Greenland because national security yet has no presence there.
Denmark / Canada / Greenland are members of NATO, so if China /Russia made a move that would probably trigger article 5.

 

[TUFNewb]

To be fair the other places he said should be part of America he's actually trying to make last of America and everyone said he was trolling.

It's funny these delusional boomers think young people would pick up rifles to defend this dumpster-fire of a nation, or the queen or whatever, while they keep an eye out on facebook. lol. Sorry gramps your on your own. Elbows up.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

It's funny these delusional boomers think young people would pick up rifles to defend this dumpster-fire of a nation, or the queen or whatever, while they keep an eye out on facebook. lol. Sorry gramps your on your own. Elbows up.

I'm English and he hasn't mentioned annexing us thankfully.

 

[Witchhunt]

Sounds like a tax increase…

 

[Unknown Pleasures]

It's funny these delusional boomers think young people would pick up rifles to defend this dumpster-fire of a nation, or the queen or whatever, while they keep an eye out on facebook. lol. Sorry gramps your on your own. Elbows up.

Canada probably has more people willing to fight for India at this point.

But in all seriousness, as western nations continue to shift to ultra low trust economic zones, the amount of people willing to pick up arms for their country rightfully diminishes. Makes sense that contractor security companies and mercenaries become greater forces.

 

[RemyR]

Good. Actually, all countries in the Western Hemisphere, especially those in the Americas, should form a military alliance to contain the Fourth Reich (USA).

I rarely comment on stuff like this, but you take the cake on people that have become completely unhinged online.

Weren't you just carded for advocating for the murder and torture of Americans overseas?

 

[Aegon Spengler]

Mr Carney wants to change that. He is promising to spend C$82bn ($59bn) over the next five years so that Canada is on a path to devoting 5% of its GDP to defence by 2035. Much of that money will be spent in Canada’s north. Russian submarines and Chinese “research” ships are making increasing forays into Canada’s Arctic waters. “There is a threat coming from the north and we can’t just be a liability,” says General Carignan.
Canada’s Armed Forces have 67,000 full-time personnel and 27,000 reserves. All of them joined voluntarily. In addition to defending the second-largest country on earth, they are stretched to the limit with far-flung operations. In Latvia they bolster the defence of the Baltic states, while a naval mission works to keep the Taiwan Strait open to international shipping.
Those armed forces are spread thin over Canada’s almost 10m square kilometres. Climate change may have dropped down the list of the country’s priorities, but the damage caused by increasingly dangerous weather has not gone away. Troops are regularly called on to help people affected by floods and forest fires. When covid-19 swept through miserably understaffed old-people’s homes in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec in 2020, the army was dispatched to care for them. The new civilian-defence force could help with these kinds of emergencies, freeing the army to concentrate on actually defending the homeland.
It may also rouse Canadians from the reverie they have enjoyed since defence spending first drifted below 2% of GDP more than three decades ago. That this meant Canada depended on the United States for much of its territorial defence did not seem to bother anyone. Philippe Lagassé, who studies defence at Carleton University in Ottawa, notes that Canada has never faced threats like those it does today. He says it is “hard for the Canadian mind to wrap itself around” the new reality.

Uncle Sam’s jab​

Canadians seem to be waking up. That is almost certainly due to Mr Trump’s hemispheric ambitions, now demonstrated with force. General Carignan says she is regularly besieged after public appearances by Canadians ready to serve. Before Christmas a senior citizen implored her to deploy him, despite his age. “He said, ‘Listen, I can’t carry a rifle and go to war, but I’m out there scanning the internet. I can help. Let me know how I can help you’.”

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2026/01/07/canadas-armed-forces-are-planning-for-threats-from-america

Canada has all the technology it needs for nuclear bombs.

Nukes are the only deterrent the Trump fascist regime understands.

 

[Natural Order]

Lol

 

[Natural Order]

Canada has all the technology it needs for nuclear bombs.

Nukes are the only deterrent the Trump fascist regime understands.

We can barely build an ice breaker ship. Better idea is just to rent them from somebody….

 

[TUFNewb]

Canada probably has more people willing to fight for India at this point.

Canada probably has more people willing to fight for an independent state IN India, aka Khalistan. With Khalistani terrorists being elected to government and shit. lol what a stupid country filled with absolute retards.

 

[Hdfi]

I rarely comment on stuff like this, but you take the cake on people that have become completely unhinged online.

Weren't you just carded for advocating for the murder and torture of Americans overseas?

No, tourists, civilians, etc. no. Only foreign invaders who are bombing, killing and stealing other countrie's oil and resources, like the US military personnel who are infecting a Venezuela and Iraq.

 

[Hdfi]

Weren't you just carded for advocating for the murder and torture of Americans overseas?

I was carded for supporting the assassination of the next US puppet dictator in Venezuela.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

 

[RemyR]

I was carded for supporting the assassination of the next US puppet dictator in Venezuela.

And you don't think that's unhinged? Calling for the assassination of someone you don't like?

Maduro was by any metric not a good guy. He was sanctioned by half the world, not just the US. The EU, Canada... over 50 countries agreed he was a bad person. Should he have been assassinated instead of arrested?

 

[Koro_11]

Canada is lost, just come and annex us already, this place is embarrassing.

 

[Hdfi]

And you don't think that's unhinged? Calling for the assassination of someone you don't like?

Maduro was by any metric not a good guy. He was sanctioned by half the world, not just the US. The EU, Canada... over 50 countries agreed he was a bad person. Should he have been assassinated instead of arrested?

I'm in favor in killing puppet dictators, you are not? And the US invasion is 100% to steal oil.

 

[RemyR]

I'm in favor in killing puppet dictators, you are not? And the US invasion is 100% to steal oil.

I'm not in favor of killing anyone cold blooded, people deserve a trial. And if that trial determines the death penalty is warranted then so be it.

And it's not exactly about securing oil for the US as it is about cutting the oil off from China/Russia/Iran/Cuba etc. This has more to with geopolitical influence than oil. Oil is currently pretty damn cheap per barrel.

 

[Hdfi]

I'm not in favor of killing anyone cold blooded, people deserve a trial. And if that trial determines the death penalty is warranted then so be it.

And it's not exactly about securing oil for the US as it is about cutting the oil off from China/Russia/Iran/Cuba etc. This has more to with geopolitical influence than oil. Oil is currently pretty damn cheap per barrel.

Stop making excuses to steal oil from a third-world country.