• MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
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    Canadians would teach the United States the meaning of insurgency.

    Given how impotent the US was in the face of resistance in Iraq and Afghanistan, how would they be able to cope with an insurgency where all the enemy combatants can blend in and walk among them?

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      11 hours ago

      Oh yes, the local Timmy’s Hoverround Brigade is exactly like the Mujahideen who trained in asymmetrical warfare since they were children.

      Canadians are completely delusional about what we’re actually capable of.

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      American: “Hello there!”

      Other “American”: “Hi! How are you?”

      American: “Great, and yourself?”

      Other “American”: “Good! Great weather we’re having, eh?”

      American: “What?”

      Other “American”: “What?”

      American: *eyes the other “American” suspiciously*

      Other “American”: “Aw shit, my cover is blown.” *Stabs American*

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      And, best of all, walk among them in the continental United States. A vast, sprawling country of crumbling infrastructure just waiting for a saboteur’s gentle nudge, awash in easily-accessible guns, and demonstrably populated by sheep who can be panicked into decades of self-destruction by a couple of buildings getting knocked down. Who haven’t experienced war anywhere except as entertainment on their TV screens in centuries.

      Here’s hoping that even Trump’s idiocy has a limit before it comes to that.

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      The Canadians would also find no shortage of Americans willing to help them, as well.