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Sending Canadian troops to Ukraine ‘on the table’ under possible peace deal: Trudeau
(www.ctvnews.ca)
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2025
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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.