And at the risk of being a jerk — you should feel scared.

No, no jerk alert there. I agree and have been scared of what might/is come/coming. If it ever does happen, there will be no winners in it, really. Just a lot of bloodshed for no reason but a few people deciding it should be.

I guess I hold out some hope that the people and military to our south will in some way stop it. Though, hope is fading.

This all feels very bizarre and scary. What if we do cut them off? You wrote it yourself:

they need our minerals, water, trees, and our energy. We don’t need them for anything.

What will happen when they are choked? After all, they are a superpower with a military that can run us over. I know there’s talk about NATO and article 5. But, are we sure our allies want to go toe to toe with a superpower? Is Canada worth it for them?

There is great uneasiness in me about all of this because it just seems like negotiations are there to just string us along until they decide enough is enough.

I mean, I don’t think the French were here to do a show of force against the U.S. I think they were here to show us the sub because Canada is ready to buy some. Call it advertising. The French aren’t here to protect Canada. We’re alone in this. The sooner we realize this, the better.

Our best course of action is to put up front the failures of our past decisions and then move on to rectify those gaps. It’ll take time and a lot of effort and willingness of Canadians to join in on the new adventure of defending our nation, but it can be done. In that instance, and only that instance, can we then look to our history of our once great military and work to beat it.

ehhh, I’m all in favour of defending Canada and would die doing so, but let’s maybe stop with the “come at us” stuff.

The U.S Military would absolutely, without a doubt, completely destroy us in our current state. There is no defending. There’s only retreat, right now. They may not be able to hold all of Canada, but they don’t want to, probably. They’ll settle with Alberta and Ontario.

Let’s face it. Canada fucked up by neglecting its military. We could argue the reasons why, but the reality is we’re learning a very valuable lesson right now - and it may be too late, too. It’ll take decades to build our defense. Let’s start now.

We are not the 1.1 million strong of WW2 anymore. We should stop riding the coattails of history and move on.