Update: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/politics/trump-fires-top-us-general-cq-brown/index.html

The loyalty purge has begun; I wonder if our military leadership is smart enough to see where this is going?

I was thinking like this a few weeks ago but with more thought I think we are geographically too difficult to invade by force.

It’s unfortunately much the opposite; our geography makes us easy to divide and conquer through a combination of the Canadian Shield being difficult to develop on, and the Trans Canada highway being a single point of failure.

https://youtu.be/550EdfxN868

I know the video is about invading the US, but it covers the general strategy the US could easily use to prevent troop movements between the western and eastern parts of Canada.

The rest of the world would also have boots on the ground here to help us out.

The US Navy could easily blockade or destroy the entirety of Europe’s combined naval forces in a matter of days. Large-scale troop and equipment transport to bring reinforcement would be extremely unlikely to work, and Europe’s militaries know this.

Also I think the vast majority of Americans would just refuse the order to do it.

20 years ago, Ukrainians would never have entertained the idea that Russia would invade and annex them. Many families lived, and continue to live, across both countries. Pernicious propaganda combined with authoritarian rule eventually removed the risk of sufficiently organized opposition.

Will it take 20 years for the US oligarchy to do the same? It’s only been two months and we’ve gone from mutual cooperation to booing each other’s anthems in sports games and AI-generated pictures of geese smashing eagles.

Increased trade with China at the US’ expense will be the grain of truth buried in Trump’s lies about Canada being owned and run by China (it doesn’t need to be true, he just needs a fact he can grossly misinterpret, and often, not even that).

I wouldn’t underestimate just how thoroughly ignorant and upset many Americans are. A little push in the right direction and the promise of wealth, even if ill-gotten, might be all they need.

I wish I shared in the optimism, but I could easily see them invading, and treating this land as an exploitable frontier. Incentivizing millions of their own citizens to move to their new colony to develop it for their own personal enrichment would mean we could quickly find ourselves outnumbered and displaced.

Haven’t been able to read the article, even archive services are paywalled.

Good thing Trudeau banned most semi-automatic “assault style” firearms just in time for us to get annexed!

You’d think he’d put a pin in that shit given what we’re facing.

It’s actually the opposite; US shale oil is very high quality in terms of purity. The problem is that their refineries are built around the idea of processing lower quality crude because the by-product is used in manufacturing other goods.

Canada’s oil sands produces the crude they need to make money off that by-product.

https://youtu.be/_l1cj_AyR1E

Which is great for us, because it means export tariffs would have an outsized impact on their secondary petrochem product prices.

Good to see more of this out here. Harsh criticism of everyone that makes mistakes only serves to ensure that no one will ever change or take responsibility.

I want to like this person’s reporting, but I just can’t get over the urge to reach through the screen and push her out of the way so I can actually see what the fuck she’s talking about.

Seriously, I get that there’s tons of pressure to standout in visual platforms by highlighting yourself in your work, but I’d still like her content even if her face wasn’t constantly in it.

These fucking business children just can’t wait to stop being told “no” by developers, even if “no” is usually more of a statement of fact driven by the nature of the problem or its lack of feasibility.

So let’s get AI to shit on them as proof that we know they’re just wasting our time and money!

And people wonder why CEOs are getting shot. It’s the same problem in every industry; the genuine few who actually get it are being followed by waves of fakers that think the numbers are all that matters and that everyone is a replaceable cog, and shit like Muhu.ai is just another pile of stolen homework, badly reinterpreted and used to ill effect so that this guy can call himself a CEO.

Sucks that you had to deal with this during the holidays, but it’s good to know people like you won’t just let this slide.