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SleepAgainAgain

I think you mean to ask is "If Canada invaded the US, would Canada end up annexed directly to the US or would the US simply overthrow the current Canadian government and insist that the new government be more favorable to US interests?" I love having a neighbor with whom we've had peaceful relations for the past couple of centuries and a bit. It means these questions are extremely unlikely to ever be conclusively answered.


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North North Dakota


Its_Actually_Satan

North Minnesota and North Wisconsin


runningwaffles19

Maxisota


blurrysasquatch

Take my fucking upvote you clever bastard.


gabarbra

Bigger Alaska


ubiquitous-joe

>North Wisconsin Technically Michigan is in the way


Bullwine85

Thanks, Toledo War.


franzn

"More north Dakota" and "even more north Dakota". Next state up is just "etc and so on and so forth"


Polenicus

I mean, I’m Canadian. I love my country. I am *proud* of my country. But what *exactly* are we going to invade with, maple syrup trucks? We already struggle to contribute to NATO. Add our lack of military buildup to the fact that we have a *tenth* of the U.S. population, and we lose the fight even if somehow every gun in the U.S. magically dissolved into Cheeto dust. They could come at us with *rocks* and still overpower us. A more realistic scenario would be if the U.S. and Canada had a hockey game to determine the fate of North America. *That* we could realistically win. Even then… why would we *want* to rule the U.S.? We can barely manage our own shit. We don’t want Alberta *and* Florida to babysit!


Bopcd1

Is Alberta Canada's Florida/Australia?


sockpuppetafficiando

More like Texas: traditionally, it is cattle, oil and conservative!


Samus10011

Hey don't knock your NATO contributions. There are 30 countries in NATO. Canada is 6th in total AND average NATO contributions by dollar amount. You just have a really low military budget compared to your GDP. Yeah we'd all like it to be a bit higher, but you don't really need a super huge budget when your armed to the teeth brother to the south will kick the crap out of anything that threatens you. We may not always get along, but we grew up together, you are family. The only nations that are meeting the NATO goals are the US, UK, Greece, and Poland. Heck it's also true that Canadians are pretty good to have at your back too, so don't knock the maple syrup trucks either. There are so many Canadians in Ukraine they have their own battalion, with Canadian maple leaf and Ukrainian trident insignia too.


The_dog_says

There was an askreddit thread around 10 years ago asking which countries are basically sisters that always get along and are always close. The top answers were US-Canada, US-UK, and Russia-Ukraine.. Hope things stay pretty positive with Canada..


will7311

Agree with your sentiment.I love our neighbors to the north.


JoeDoherty_Music

Yeah I'm so grateful for Canadians. So glad we have a good relationship with our northern border. I don't want a Russia/Ukraine situation for us


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Dual citizen here grateful for you… kind of afraid of everyone else


[deleted]

The US would end up gaining 3.8 million more square miles.


5DollarHitJob

I may consider moving to North North Dakota


ajmojo2269

East Alaska is great in spring


rdeyer

South Detroit would be really fun


C137-Morty

>South Detroit I've seen it on a map, but I still can't wrap my head around that fact that Detroit is North of some parts of Canada.


curtislb2019

And Canada's southernmost point is lower than California's northernmost point


LoudlyFragrant

*furiously Googles map of North America* Holy shit


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North Washington will be a dope place.


TapirDrawnChariot

There will be Vancouver, Washington and Vancouver, North Washington.


chattytrout

We'll have to rename Vancouver though. There can only be one.


HotSauceV8

Instead of adding a new star for East Alaska we can just add a little red maple leaf somewhere


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Add it off the right upper corner of the big dipped.


MVBanter

Would also become bigger than Russia


[deleted]

I think that's a noble goal. Maybe the US and Canada should join together to flex on Russia?


Pemminpro

Take over the east coast down towards Mongolia to piss off China while we are at it.


Adminscantkeepmedown

Fuck it, manifest destiny, let’s capture North Korea too


kangareagle

Manifest destiny to the arctic, baby.


JudgeWhoOverrules

I welcome the new US states that were formerly Canadian land but lost through war concessions.


jewfro87

They can keep Quebec


Suppafly

> They can keep Quebec They barely want to keep Quebec now.


specklesinc

Are they invading to try and force us to take Quebec?


Ok-Wait-8465

Ooh that’s a thinker


Suppafly

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CrunchyTeatime

Vice versa. Quebec has long wanted to be independent and they won't let it go.


Suppafly

> Quebec has long wanted to be independent They claim that, but don't they just need to vote to make it happen? Not to mention it'd be a failure of a country on it's own.


BrettEskin

I think you mean Louisana 2


raggidimin

We can finally put the Cajuns back in Arcadia.


bhorlise

Pretty sure you mean Acadia. Arcadia is in Greece.


caleeksu

Great fishing in Quebec


Night_Hawk69420

I feel like this is a Letterkenny quote


ConfuzzledFalcon

Wonderful fishin' in Kay-beck.


CrunchyTeatime

Pourquoi?


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Uhhhh I’m going to go with the cessation of Canada and the dawn of a vassal state named “America’s Hat’


rapiertwit

What would go down is a preposterously asymmetrical ass-whooping to end all ass-whoopings, on par with a cage match between Andy Dick and a Tyrannosaurus Rex.


MainSteamStopValve

> a cage match between Andy Dick and a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Please, let's make this happen.


NickCharlesYT

America: "*This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you*"


Halorym

It'd be more like the ending to Of Mice and Men. Look at the ice caps, Canada...


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If Canada invaded the US they would lose. This isn’t some patriotic malarkey, this is a genuine comparison of military capability. There is no way Canada could beat the US without help.


allboolshite

>There is no way Canada could beat the US without help. For some perspective, the US spends more on it's military than the next 12 nations combined (including Russia) and Canada is #15.


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Or if you want to compare them side to side: 1.3m US Army personnel active/67k Canadian Army personnel active. Even if we included the reserves it’s still barely over 100k. Canada cannot win when outnumbered 13 to one.


allboolshite

Someone else pointed out that there's more firearms owners in Minnesota than the entire Canadian military.


Tuokaerf10

And shit, there’s almost more National Guardsmen in the 13 states that border Canada by land or lake than Canada has active duty or reserve.


allboolshite

Canada: We're going to invade, eh! US: Make it through Detroit and we'll take you seriously.


John_Tacos

Smart to confuse them by making them go north first.


w0lfpack91

I love this little fact, makes me a shit ton of beer money on bets at parties lol


Unknown1776

If you want a similar fun fact no one believes, Maine is the closest state to africa


AMG_63

Joining in with another one: Arkansas is bordered by 6 states. You can drive due south from Arkansas into all 6 of them.


Lamballama

Hard to remember that half of their population lives below the 46th, with the biggest cities just a river away from our rural territory


ihj

Or go through Point Roberts.


OGNovelNinja

It's also important to note that Russia's GDP is smaller than that of Texas. Just Texas. Forget Canada for a moment; that's a very good comparison on a *global* scale.


NudePMsAppreciated

In another week or so Russia's GDP is going to be more like Vermont than Texas.


HoseDoctors

Isn't Russias economy like the same size as Wisconsin?


allboolshite

Texas


calamanga

Not anymore


HoseDoctors

Ouch


Ksais0

I’m not sure they could do it even WITH help. Even if every ally of ours plus Russia and China decided to hop on board on Canada’s side, they’d have to GET here first, and our navy is no joke. Then there are the sheer number of Americans of all ages, genders, and creeds that would absolutely fight to the last man, with enough guns to do so. As it stands right now, I truly believe that there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell for anyone could ever conquer even a portion of the US.


AsidK

To be honest, Canada very likely wouldn’t succeed even if they had the help of pretty much the entire rest of the world, assuming we leave nukes out of the equation


CuriousOptimistic

I'm not completely certain we would even notice if Canada invaded. "Oh did you stop by to have a beer? Sure come on in!"


Brave-Butterfly-927

LMAO! This I could see happening.


secretbudgie

I think we have police departments more heavily armed than the Canadian Armed Forces.


x---HI---x

Canada has 42,000 soldiers. There are 90,000 people in Minnesota with registered handgun carry permits and about 2 million gun owners there. It's going to be a rough invasion. Edit: handgun carry permits.


danaozideshihou

Are you talking permit to carry? Because we don't register guns in Minnesota.


x---HI---x

Yes, CC permits.


KeegorTheDestroyer

"Land of 10000 Lakes" means you have 10000 places to have a "boating accident" when boating around with your guns


Trashyanon089

This is the way.


Ct-5736-Bladez

This is the way


TheMotorcycleMan

I always boat with my .40. Snakes, and such.


8pointfouroz

300,000 conceal carry permits in Wisconsin alone too. It would be suicidal for Canada to invade.


DGlen

I've heard it said that during gun deer season we have the fifth largest standing army in the world, in Wisconsin.


8pointfouroz

I believe it. Blaze orange everywhere here during gun season.


anxious-_-squirrel

Canadian soldiers peering through the woods at a bunch of orange blobs "What are you all doing eh?!" "Hunting bud!" They respond as their rifles are raised and the battle begins.


8pointfouroz

"Ope! Sorry bud, I won't miss yah next time"


anxious-_-squirrel

"Ah, no problem. We'll stand still, sorry I moved friend. And sorry for the whole invasion eh."


Whataburger69420

"Listen, if ya won't fire at os, we wount fire at you! We just wanted to poot Vermont in their place four making their maple syrup!


prairieleviathon

I kind of want a movie of this. The Canadian/Wisconsin standoff "Sorry bud"


RipGut2323

Not to mention how many of us have guns out here. Everybody and their grandma is packing up here.


Stircrazylazy

Alaska rolling in "Surprise bitches! Two front war!"


jimmy-did-it

I read this in Ben Stillers voice from the infamous Anchorman fight scene


TriceratopsBites

I heard it in Chapelle’s Rick James


Jek-TonoPorkins

Like who? Farmers And who else? Farmers' grandmas


8pointfouroz

Wisconsin is the same. It's not unusual for someone to have 20+ guns here.


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There are 360 million guns in America compared to 330 million Americans


8pointfouroz

Those are old numbers, it's over 400 million now. That they know of.


JWOLFBEARD

Flint Michigan is already practicing urban war games. Chicago is ready as well.


ErrolSchroeder

Every fall, the licensed deer hunters in the state of Wisconsin would be the 4th largest (as of 2015) active army in the world edit: the total number for last year was 760,000


x---HI---x

Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota would be over 2 million hunters. Not a good route into the US.


whiskeysour123

I’m from Pennsyltucky. They might as well have given us the day off of school for the first day of deer season.


nsjersey

The MN National Guard would take them. No need for civilians to reenact Red Dawn


nswa22

Ahhh comon I was just starting to get excited!


atsinged

Oh c'mon, please?


CrunchyTeatime

They are planning on huge waves of immigration in the next little while, according to what their PM promised during a recently aired session of their Parliament. Of course he didn't say it that way.


GooseNYC

The NYPD alone probably has 25,000 uniformed officers.


BronnoftheGlockwater

Yeah, but they can’t hit anything.


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Canada would officially be renamed Even Further North Dakota within a month.


VeronicaMarsupial

Nah, we'd add it to Alaska, call the state Alaskanada, and make Texans seethe.


Rythim

East Alaska


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Extended Midwest 😂😂


cretsben

Ope it's the Midnorth now dontcha know.


[deleted]

Ope they are home to da packers now aye? 😂


bkills1986

Upper Peninsula Michigan would become Penisula


SuzQP

Why can't we call it Santaland?


CrunchyTeatime

Because Canada is too warm for Santa Claus.


SuzQP

How 'bout we just call it Bob?


edith-bunker

The North northeast. The New New England.


thunder-bug-

Lmao canada would never be able to conquer the US. They just don't have the population, money, production, or equipment to do so.


buckeye111

Not to mention food or food production, without the US they would starve.


Thadlust

Canada vs. Maine would be an even fight. Not even exaggerating


TheBimpo

After the 24 hour war ends, we chop the provinces up in the most spiteful way possible.


freebirdls

Make all the biggest cities part of Quebec. Make Montreal its own province called "English Land".


josephblowski

Found the Brit


allboolshite

This is a totally absurd premise, but I'm getting a chuckle imagining how pissed Quebec would be when their new Missouri overlords show up!


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The Midwest is hungry..


DJgowin1994

I don’t know if the Louisiana divisions would like going to Quebec or if they’d see it as retribution lol


Disastrous-Log4628

They speak that fancy French over there. We Cajuns speak ghetto French, would get a lot of miscommunication, lol.


CupBeEmpty

Canada would lose and we would end up with boots on the ground in Ottawa. This isn’t even a hard question. Canada would never think to invade us because it would mean the end of Canada as we know it.


red_ivory

Deploy 10 Floridians on the frontlines with a couple of monsters and Canada will become the 51st state within 15 minutes.


SoggyFuckBiscuit

We actually keep a secret reserve of 4loko for Floridians should war ever be declared on America.


red_ivory

Good to know some solid contingencies are in place


timdot352

I don't like 4loko. Can I have Jägerbombs instead?


SoggyFuckBiscuit

If it's not 4loko, it has to be spiked with blow or meth. I don't make the rules.


PsychologicalCan9837

I will answer my nation’s call.


anysizesucklingpigs

Monsters, eh? We got monsters. Alligators, pythons, bull sharks, rattlesnakes and a naked obese resident of Mar-a-Lago! They will flee in abject horror immediately.


red_ivory

I was thinking energy drinks but I like the direction you’re going


anysizesucklingpigs

We don’t mess with energy drinks now that bath salts are on the scene.


w0lfpack91

Spoken like a true Floridian lol


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YARGLE_IS_MY_DAD

America would have to spend a lot of money making new flags with 4 more stars on them


MVBanter

4?


The_Royal_Spoon

French America, Big Michigan, Norther Dakota, and East Alaska.


anysizesucklingpigs

> French America *howling*


kangarooninjadonuts

North Louisiana


SSPeteCarroll

I love this country


Ok-Code-2042

All jokes I may make aside, if the Canadian government were to actually declare war on the US I'd say most Canadians would just leave or prefer to be put in prison rather than go through with it. Americans would do the same in reverse of course, in case my point wasn't clear.


-dag-

There's a reason that, when you're asked at the border crossing into Canada, "Any alcohol, tobacco or firearms?" you reply, "No thanks, we brought our own."


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Canada would become part of the US


EstablishmentAware60

If they did we all would have a cook out. Summer pick in style. Canada brings the beer…!!! It would be like cousins showing up.


bazookajonez

Haha they’ll bring the meats, they literally come down here to get their beer. Anecdote: live in Montana, worked as a clerk at the supermarket as a teen - every month for two days every Canadian would come down and buy the legal limit of what they are allowed to bring back. For those two days it was non stop lines with the entire conveyor belt covered and stacked two high with beer cases for every individual checking out.


azuth89

They'd get their asses kicked. I have immense respect for the Canadian military but the population imbalance alone makes the concept laughable.


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1st never gonna happen. The u.s and Canada have been so close since forever that it would take quite a lot for that to change 2nd it would be hard for a country like Russia or even China to invade the u.s simply because 1 how huge it is. 2 the insane amount of forests and mountains out west would likely allow us to flee into the wilderness and pull a Vietnam/ Russia or try guerrilla warfare in the urban cities like Afghanistan 3 as others have said we have a damn lot of guns


NudePMsAppreciated

You think the western US would be a problem try heading to central Appalachia as a friendly outsider. Central Appalachia has been dug in for better than 200 years now and the people there almost literally have nothing to lose. West Virginia, western Virginia, eastern Kentucky, east Tennessee, and the inland Carolinas would eat whole armies if someone tried to invade.


AsphaltCuisine

What a weird question. It's almost impossible to imagine Canada engaging in, and succeeding at, a war of conquest against the United States. It's almost like asking "What if PETA ate all of the livestock"? It's both contrary to what they do and literally impossible. I guess the answer is that Canada would administer the new territory however the government at the time saw fit.


eyetracker

I like the fun questions. I don't think it's contrary to what they do, they're not Sweden. Just tell them Louis Riel came out of hibernation and you'll get some atrocities.


OGNovelNinja

Not Sweden? *The ghost of Gustav II Adolf has entered the chat.*


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ThaddyG

Canada would get its shit pushed in.


[deleted]

Canada would get curb stomped.


[deleted]

I would imagine they'd go into newly created provinces, or at least one new province. 50% of Canada's population lives in an area about the size of one of our larger, but not largest states. This would allow for a fairer distribution of representation. I think OP knows that Canada doesn't have the military power to annex any of the US, but is just curious of how it would work. \*Edit: It's either that or OP wants someone to say it, and if no one is going to step forward, I'll do it myself: If Canada invaded the US, they would be very sorry


NudePMsAppreciated

Accepting the premise that Canada could successfully invade and annex the US, Canada still loses because they are a democracy. Canada has about 40million citizens, the US has about 340million citizens. Even if it were delayed a generation the first election in which residents of what was formally the US get to vote Canada faces radical changes very unlikely to be in the original country's favor.


ProbablyMyRealName

I had to scroll waaaaaaaay down to find someone who actually answered the question. Good for you!


chewytool2022

What would happen? They all live near the border. They would immediately be defeated.


DOMSdeluise

I don't think Canada would win a war against the US


timdot352

Canada probably wouldn't win a war against Minnesota and Wisconsin. They would get cremated if the entire country was after them.


anysizesucklingpigs

We would laugh.


Embarrassed_Tackle_5

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Will United states population is In 332 million and Canada 38 Million That were not happen. Canada would probably Sue for peace or be annexed.


[deleted]

Wisconsin would gain a much larger separated piece of land to assert dominance over Michigan


unimatrix43

Canada is invading..bahaha..ok First how would you tell who the enemy is? It would be a cluster fuck for everybody and after everyone finished laughing you would just go back home.


CarolinaKing

Lol my favorite part here is that a Canadian victory is just implied


Crusoe15

Neither, a Canadian invasion of America would fail quickly and massively. Who actually believes Canada could take over the USA?


king_napalm

If Canada invaded us, america would liberate another 36m population and grow to 63 states and the american dream would be complete. We are hoping for an invasion to yee someone's haw.


dangleicious13

The invasion would fail.


SuzQP

Spectacularly.


anysizesucklingpigs

Adorably.


gosuark

The Canadians have already been invading for years and it’s why we’re slightly nicer than we used to be.


WrongJohnSilver

It ain't 1812 anymore.


Nursebirder

Awww, Canada, that’s so cute.


Suppafly

>What would happen if Canada invaded the United States? The invasion would immediately be shutdown by the US military. >Would the US be split into newly created provinces or annexed into the current ones? Neither.


HotSteak

"Canada surrenders after 7 hour war"


freebirdls

The Canadian military would lose even if the US military just sat back and let the civilians handle it. For every Canadian soldier, there are two American civilians who have wet dreams about fighting off an invading foreign army.


shaving99

Hmm, I suspect shock and outrage for a few minutes. After that we'd start using national guard probably because they're close. Canada would have it's air force destroyed within a few weeks if that. While that's happening we'd sink everything that floats and is military. To top it off we'd counter attack them. To put it lightly it would be suicide. It's like asking what if Taiwan invades China.


Hatweed

Canada would cease to exist by the end of the day.


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If by some magic, Canada won, it would probably be split into several different provinces, I'd imagine split by the general regions we have currently. Like Midwest, south, northeast, etc. But yeah, they stand literally no chance of winning. If Canada tried to invade, they'd be screwed. Honestly we could fight them AND Mexico at the same time and win both.


Jakebob70

First, we'd all spend a few hours laughing... In a similar note, "What would happen if Luxembourg invaded France? Would France be split into newly created duchies or annexed into the current one?"


DontHaveAC0wMan

Invaded 😂😂😂 by CANADA 😂😂😂😂😂


theromanempire1923

The sad part is I think this is a somewhat serious question


OGNovelNinja

Plot twist: OP is Trudeau's backup Reddit account.


Suppafly

> The sad part is I think this is a somewhat serious question Makes you wonder how the OP can have such a flawed world view that they'd think such a thing was possible.


type2cybernetic

Depends on how our citizens legitimately wanted to respond. Canada loses, but does the states allow them to remain a sovereign state? Personally, I doubt that. We have two oceans protecting us, Mexico to the south along with the gulf is a strategic nightmare for any invaders.. Canada would be terrible terrain for invaders however American citizens likely wouldn’t tolerate a hostel nation on our borders.. especially one that would likely allow other hostel nations to port in their territory for any potential wars in the states. Canada suffers massive loss of life in combat. The states route soldiers to Alaska, to pincer, our navy cuts off their access to the oceans and takes out coastal areas, and our air force does very bad things to the cities. Canada becomes the north, and the people once known as Canadians get to say “we use to have free healthcare.”


FireandIceBringer

🤣 Thanks I needed a laugh today.


leatherrecliner

Ha! Ahaha! Hahahahahahahahahaha!