American invasion of Canada would spark decades-long insurgency, expert predicts

[GardenGnome]

HALIFAX — If U.S. President Donald Trump fails in his stated goal of annexing Canada through economic force, what would happen if he ordered the world’s most powerful military to invade?

Some experts and academics say it’s a notion too preposterous to even contemplate. But Aisha Ahmad isn’t one of them.

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“But a conventional military victory is not the end of this story. It’s just the beginning.”

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“Canada is a gigantic country with 40 million people who really don’t want to be Americans,” Cohen said in an interview. “(An invasion) would be a monumental enterprise. The opposition to it would be across the board in the United States. And who the hell wants 40 million progressives in the United States? It makes no sense.”

https://rdnewsnow.com/2025/03/30/american-invasion-of-canada-would-spark-decades-long-insurgency-expert-predicts/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=other

The article says if only 1% of Canadians resisted, that would be 400,000 insurgents. Given the huge economic resistance, I suspect the numbers would be much higher.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Also it would split the US.

So 40 million would swell to north of 140 million.

[GiqueCee]

2. There are many...

... on this side of the border that will not hesitate to join our Canadian brethren in defending their sovereignty. I'm old, but I can still snap-shoot the seeds out of a grape off-hand. Okay, hyperbole for effect, but I am an expert marksman.

[DonCoquixote]

3. the only way it would work

is if he made the Quebecois an offer to be separate
hell bring old Marie le pan to vouich for it,offer he tocomethereand rule so that the more rigth wing French can get nostaligic

[Irish_Dem]

4. Trump would not make that offer without strings attached.

Not sure the people of Quebec would go along with kissing Trump's ass 24/7.

[DonCoquixote]

5. they might if they got to say

va te faire foutre Toronto!

i.e. Effyou toronto

[Irish_Dem]

6. But then just replace it with kissing the ass of Trump and Washington DC?

I am not sure about that.

And let Trump take a wrecking ball to Quebec's very proud history and ancestors?

[BlueWavePsych]

7. Insurgency following US invasion of Canada now in mainstream news (see Toronto Star)

Ahmad, who has studied insurgencies for more than 20 years, says that if the United States were “reckless” enough to invade its northern neighbour, a violent repression of the Canadian population would herald the beginning of a decades-long resistance.

“It’s impossible to annex Canada without violence,” said Ahmad, who has advised generals at the Pentagon about counter-insurgency strategies. “No one is born an insurgent or resistance fighter. This is something that happens to people when their mom is killed, or when their kids are unable to get to a hospital. People fight back because they have to.”

Ahmad said otherwise ordinary citizens would start engaging in mild civil disobedience — cutting wires, diverting funds, thwarting the occupiers in small ways. Others would escalate to sabotage, ambushes and raids, sowing disorder and slowly draining the invading army of its energy and resources. Neighbours would provide the insurgents with safe havens, allowing them to fade back into the population.

“This approach treats waging war as a secret, part-time job that an ordinary person can do .... Trump is delusional if he believes that 40 million Canadians will passively accept conquest.”

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/american-invasion-of-canada-would-spark-decades-long-insurgency-expert-predicts/article_e7674c01-4ca9-5fa5-9274-41589bade509.html