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Swede

(37,352 posts)
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 11:20 AM Friday

Canada is like Austria in 1938, watching the huge country on their border circle the drain.

If anyone ever asks me why I care, it's because history repeats itself. Anschluss anyone?

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enid602

(9,534 posts)
2. Austrians
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 11:27 AM
Friday

Austria a had many cultural ties with the Germans, and welcomed them with open arms.

Swede

(37,352 posts)
3. We have our share of rightwing nuts up here (We call them Maplemaga) but their numbers are around 15%
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 11:35 AM
Friday

People are stupid everywhere.

Bernardo de La Paz

(58,642 posts)
4. It is more likely that some US states would secede or join Canada rather than any part of Canada joining US. . . . nt
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 11:39 AM
Friday

Fiendish Thingy

(20,825 posts)
5. Any Anschluss across the 49th parallel will result in a whole lot of dead American troops
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 11:44 AM
Friday

Canada may not be able to defeat an American invasion militarily, but Canadians can and will kill American occupiers until the last one leaves Canadian soil.

We would make the troubles in Ireland look like a tea party.

That’s why it’s not going to happen - Trump knows he would be impeached and removed when thousands of Red State troops start coming home in body bags,

ananda

(33,238 posts)
6. Well, Trump has been trying to annex Canada...
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 11:47 AM
Friday

but Canada seems to have the upper hand there.

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