I think we'd only see that as a serious possibility after a conventional military invasion had turned into a quagmire, and we'd only see a conventional military invasion after a lot more provocations and failed "economic" annexation attempts.

I think Trump believes that Canada really is just some piece of real estate he can "acquire", but that very fact means that he's not going to go straight to the biggest guns because he assumes the Americans will be welcomed as liberators after just a little effort. It's only when those little efforts keep on failing that there'll be ramp-up.

This will take years. We're in for a long haul, and victory for Canada is possible at each step along the way, so I'm not too worried yet. Angry, but not worried.

Ideally, we'll help Ukraine finish off Russia in the near future and then we'll be able to purchase a ton of really spiffy gear from Ukraine that'll take an invasion off the table. Ironically, all that military hardware the Americans gave Ukraine under Biden can now be reverse-engineered to make good anti-American-forces drones if needed.

My concern is that once push comes to shove he’s gonna deploy a nuke, take out a major city, and demand surrender under the threat of more nukes.

Canada is well loved around the world. If he nuked us, the US would be severely fucked.

Canada is so close to the USA that any nuke would also blow into the USA and cause problems down there. The entire world would gang up on the USA if they nuked Canada. Not even sure if Russia, North Korea or China would side with the USA if they did that. They have too many enemies and are losing their allies so I really don’t know who would side with the USA if they did that. It would be their downfall