I prefer the days when they called them dill. and then the ukrainians just own the name dill, and call themselves ukrop sarcasticallly.

(side note ukrainians put dill on fucking everything, my buddy tried to put it on french fries once)

RF is a Cult of personality, pretending to be a Mafia, pretending to be an empire. pretending to be a gas station masquerading as a state.

Im still learning Lemmy, but for once it finally sent me to a place thats cool.

hello fellow vatnik tankie red-nazi z-gonk dunkers.

Canada sucked major ass at the world juniors this year. USA has won back to back.

South Africa is already against America, they're in bed with China and Russia, they're the S of "BRICS"

occupation of people who are virtually indistinguishable at a glance. Just ask the Russians how that worked out in Eastern Ukraine, the only way they could ever secure the place was by killing pretty much everyone.

Germany, Austria and Switzerland speak German, and are still different countries. US, UK, Canada, NZ and Australia speak English, and are different countries France and Belgium speak French, are different countries. The entire Arabic speaking world is spread across like 20 countries. Russia and Ukraine both speak Russian*, and one tried to merge with the other, violently, and are now bitter enemies probably forever..

Is "Fuck off and leave people alone" an option in peoples brains?

Much like with Russia and Putin, the fascist extremism in america isn't going to die with one man.

I guess I never looked into the Imran Zakhayev charachter very much, he just looked like a wrinkly old angry one armed russian dude to me.

I was speaing from the point of view as someone in north america having to deal with american aggression, Yeah the US would lose its bases across the world in short order, but No one is going to be able to come to the aid of Canada or Mexico if they were invaded. Not as long as the US still has the USN,

(and the next two largest Navies, are also states Canada would never accept help from, Russia and China.... China is a hard sell, if America was hostile, and China extended a hand, yeah there'd be strings attached, If it were my choice, I'd take it if it meant it was Only Chinese assistance. Russian on the other hand, The Russian ideology is incompatible with life as we know it, I'd rather go down fighting than ever shake hands with Z-Nazis who I personally believe are the ringmasters of this entire world crisis with America turning the way it is.)

and America inherits an insurgency of people that effortlessly blends in to its own population, and pikachu faces as "terroist" attacks from Canadian sympathisers and Enraged Moderates and Democrat leaning types decide that its time for a civil war against the Tyrannic regime.

It'd be the US kicking everyone elses shit in, until the British and French let the nukes fly, I hate to break it to you but the US is multitudes more powerful than the rest of NATO, NATO can still burn the US, but they'll burn with it. Same goes for Russia.

conventionally, the US is the world hegemon as far as naval and air power goes, they are unbeatable.

what the US doesn't have the stomach for , is occupation. they were defeated by mountain men with 70 year old Kalashnikovs on the other side of the world, who were so culturally different from them they might as well have been aliens, Just imagine what it'd be like against an enemy on your doorstep that looks and talks just like you. that you cant tell from your own. Wait, you dont' even need to imagine, because it already happened, Look at how Russia's occupation was torn apart by the Ukrainian resistance. The only way they ever secure land is by bombing it to dust and moving in.

and unlike Russia, America has a formidable faction within its own borders who would revolt and start a civil war if the Trump/MAGA administration became hostile to America's friends and allies.

in my heart I know the intent of the morons speaking about it serious, while the feasability of it actually being attempted, is not.
(Drop the world into chaos with a few nuclear blasts and escalation of state wars, that might change and the Americans will probably try it)

that being said, Canadians are open to using violence to protect their sovereingty. We've been killing fascists and imperialists since 1914, we are quite good at it. We thought we were going to be killing Russian fascists next, but have no qualms about doing it to American Fascists if forced to.

A Polish proverb, referring to Russia, that came back into relevance during the invasion of Ukraine.

"The Rubble is preferable to your dominion"

it's transferable here, too

the world in 2025 is multitudes more dangerous and volatile than the world the last time he was here. thats the issue.

We've seen an outbreak of inter-state war unlike anything since the 40s and 50s. With Russia and Ukraine And the rest of Europe, its the biggest state vs state conflict since Iran-Iraq in the 80s. and there are conflicts flaring up all over the world. Israel is going on a spree of settling every grudge they ever had, Syria as fallen, China is making final preparations for Taiwan, Azerbaijan looks like its going to invade Armenia, War is the hot topic of the 2020s.

Trump is an isolationist, if the world is going down in flames, he thinks it's not unreasonable to suggest consolidating control over North America, just cuz.

internet and tv rotted peoples brains, been that way for about 10-15 years now. people cant help themselves

In that scenario, the CIA controlled Quisling CSIS says hello

You dont train to fight in a war against america, you train to fight in an insurgency.

Americans have no stomach for occupation, they pissed and moaned and ultimately surrendered to the Taliban, and that was on the other side of the world. and the cultures and appearances were so different they might as well have been Aliens.

They'd cry "terrorism" every day of the week, but the Americans would be torn to shreds by Insurgent activity on both sides of the border if they betrayed us. Much like how the Russians marched into the land of their "brothers" with assault rifles, and then wondered why people speaking their language who looked like them, were suddenly killing them all over Russia.

minor ancedote, high treason is a term reserved for people already within the government or positions of authority. *

Thousands of idiots who would sell out their family for a red hat. all because they're mad about bathroom signs.

if push came to shove, those people would be taken care of pretty violently.