Comment on [Serious] What is project 2025? What kind of risk is involved?
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoAnd, scarily, there’s a non-zero chance they will have the opportunity to try. Like, we may literally have a civil war on our southern border come November.
Sunsethughes@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Largest undefended border in the world with one of the largest militaries in the world. I don’t know what to think, I’m scared for my family in southern ontario
cerement@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Southern Ontario? You mean Northern New York right?
Sunsethughes@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That’s the thing! So many people live within an hour of the border. Canada has a fifth of the world’s fresh water resources. What happens if the largest dictatorship in the world decides it needs a sippy sip? We’ve got 38 million people, tf would we do?
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 months ago
If 1812 is any indicator, call the brits to take care of it for you and then take credit for it afterwards anyways.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It would be far cheaper for the US to just trade us for the water compared to invading. Invasions are expensive.
classic@fedia.io 2 months ago
There's a comic book for that: https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/we-stand-on-guard
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Actually, the areas where the millitary are based at will probably be the safest since there’s like a zero percent chance that they will be siding in significant numbers with the likely instigators of this hypothetical civil war.
It’ll less be “the trenches have come across the atlantic” and more “The troubles but instead of centuries of religious differences and legacies of imperial oppression and division, it’s clem and the boys becoming domestic terrorists because they’d rather die than go back to the world where they knew shame.”
TheUncannyObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Don’t be scared? I mean, even if there’s a full on civil war, which isn’t likely, why would it spill into Canada unless your nation picks a side?
What’s more likely is that democrats would do what they always do and back down, cementing our slide into facism while preventing a civil war.
What you should really be worried about is having a violent monarchy forming on your southern border, because you’ve got some socialist tendencies, and conservatives hate that.
cerement@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
the only time US has payed attention to borders is when it involves non-white immigrants …
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I strongly doubt a civil war would spill over but if there is massive unrest it’s likely that arms smuggling through ports of entry would sky rocket and we’d see violence from both sides in the area trying to protect and disrupt shipments.
As their neighbor we’d also probably get appeals from both sides for open support and a lot of our border faces really conservative areas in America.
Icalasari@fedia.io 2 months ago
Plus, Alberta exists and I have lived here long enough to know that the idiots here would be itching to use a US civil war as the reason to start one in Canada