• Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    The rest of NATO needs to step up and make a military exercise off the coast of Canada as a show of force that it shouldn’t be messed around with even among allies.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      5 hours ago

      Canada itself should start a military exercise where it practises laying landmines. No need to practise picking them up though, there’s plenty of time for that later.

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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        5 hours ago

        That would be a violation of the Ottawa treaty.

        And landmines don’t actually stop an army, they just slow it down and inhibit maneuver.

        The supplementary reserve of 300,000 citizen soldiers that’s being planned is a better idea. There would be no stopping a US invasion, but 300,000 resistance fighters ensures the US would lose the occupation, as it usually does.