• Snowstorm@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      Yes but No

      No country will put themselves in a strategically loosing situation willfully. The UK is militarily very intertwined with the US : An abrupt divorce with the US isn’t possible. Just like Ukraine’s European allies are still buying Russian gaz, many NATO allies will try to play both side and the smaller Canada essentially being abandoned to itself. Easier to organize a blockade with the Atlantic Ocean as a boarder after Canada is attacked and mostly lost. I say this painfully as a Canadian. Hopefully we have time to make it too expensive to attack us.

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        15 hours ago

        That’s BS. You could have said the same thing during WWII. Countries stood up against fascism then, going against what was “better” for them. Countries will do it again if they have to. Canada sent troops over the ocean to fight on the front lines in WWII as cannon fodder before members of other armies - but we were tough as shit and savage. If we ever need to call in a favour - we will.