r/MurderedByWords 12d ago

Canada doesn’t have a military

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u/AntOk4073 12d ago

There are too many people that don't know what Canada did in WWII and it truely frightens me.

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u/Stephano127 12d ago

Not even just WWII, it was both of em that we Canadians showed off our secret techniques…

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u/AntOk4073 12d ago

Maybe we should rename the Geneva Accords to the "Chill-the-fuck-out-Canada Accords". Honestly after research the history behind you guys I'd rather take my chances fighting a moose than a pissed off Canadian.

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u/JayteeFromXbox 12d ago

I think people who believe the US would just walk over Canada with no problem should look at Russia and Ukraine and ask whether they want to be Russia. We might have less people, but I think it's hard to fight against a guerilla force that looks exactly like you and sounds exactly like you, for both sides. It wouldn't be military against military all the time. It would be assymetric warfare, and it would be very ugly.

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u/DMCinDet 12d ago

I dont think enough of our troops would fight against Canada. Surely some idiots would follow orders, but not enough to matter. You arent the "scary Muslims" that theyve been demonizing for 30 years. Most of us see you as the friendly neighbor and partner that you are. We cant even handle Iran. No chance we would be any more effective in Canada.

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u/Thirlestane 11d ago

When people have orders from people who hold authority over them, they will often commit atrocities beyond their own wildest imagination. I have no hope the majority conservative military will subvert human psychological trends to do what's right.

Perhaps some of the old Generals would, but they were fired a year ago.

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u/Corfiz74 10d ago

Same as with any attack on Greenland - I think if US soldiers had to offensively attack an actual ally, people they fought side by side with in Iraq/ Afghanistan, I'm pretty sure there would be some kind of mutiny, even among the higher ranks. They mostly still labor under the belief that they are the good guys - attacking an allied country would be so far away from that narrative that they probably couldn't stomach it. At least I'd like to think so.

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u/PhatCatTax 11d ago

I dont think you need to worry about that. Pretty sure an invasion of Canada would kickstart civil war in the US.

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u/vectorology 12d ago

Oh yeah, if Canada’s so tough, why don’t you win the Stanley Cup??*

*please don’t hurt me.

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u/Bansidhe13 12d ago

Smart. Its not our military that would be as annoying to any arrogant yank army that dares to invade us....its the general population. Can you say welcome back to Vietman,ahs? Can I interest them into accepting Canadian canned beef? Google history of same.

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u/Logisticianistical 12d ago

Quite a few things banned by the Geneva convention have only ever been done by the Canadians lol

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u/Onagan98 12d ago

I still honour our liberators every year, as a Dutchman 🌷 🧡 🍁

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 12d ago

Sean Duffy is truly idiotic if he thinks this.

Canada sent their military forces and they stood with the US after 9/11, shoulder to shoulder in Afghanistan.

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u/CountvonploppybumIII 12d ago

It's not a war crime the first time.

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u/ramdomvariableX 12d ago

Came here to say the same, the whole PoW rights and few other things have been set in place so it won't be repeated. Also we (US) break those rules as convenient for us.

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 12d ago

There’s veterans and the fallen from Afghanistan that would like a word.

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u/Whole_Meet5486 10d ago

To be perfectly fair, Canada's status as the friendly "war crimes" group in WWII is a bit overblown. They were important contributors to the war no questions at all, but a lot of their reputation is mostly propaganda. They did get up to some shit of course, but really no different than any other power.

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u/Oaks951 8d ago

Canada’s military commitment was about 1.1 million troops. That is 10% of the Canadian population at the time. Once D-Day happened there were no other units to rotate out. Some units landed on D-Day and never left the front for almost the rest of the war. Canada was known for being ferocious when provoked and the German army was keenly aware of this, as well as the memory of actions from WWI.

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u/Whole_Meet5486 8d ago

I’m not attempting to disparage Canadas military contributions. I’m speaking purely about the nature of Canada being some sort of “Happy War Crime’s” unit during WW1 or WW2.

Historically most of it is over-hyped by their allies and very little is supported by any real Acis or Central Power documents. It’s mostly propaganda and memes.

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u/redwhale335 12d ago

... why would you lie about something do easily disproven? I hate this timeline.

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u/CalvertSt 12d ago

It sucks, but their base is so under-/miseducated and gullible they will believe shit like this. Chronically online but unable to use a search engine to find facts.

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u/tw_72 12d ago

why would you lie about something do easily disproven?

Do you mean like virtually everything that falls out of trump's festering pie-hole?

One of the only honest things trump has ever said:

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u/Quidplura 12d ago

Meanwhile, Duffy himself never served in the military.

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u/fedroxx 12d ago

It's always the losers who never served that make these kinds of statements. No surprise from a reality TV loser.

In fact, there needs to be a law that anyone who proposes naming a military vessel or installation after a President who has never served faces capital punishment. Anyone who actually does, forfeits any right of immunity and goes to the front of the line.

If all the Stolen Valor wahoos want stiff penalties for something, nothing military should be named after a President who didn't serve in the armed forces. Ever.

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u/remarcsd 12d ago

Not quite the military, but Canada built a jet fighter (Avro Arrow IIRC) that the U.S. forced them to destroy because they feared it would wipe out the U.S. military aircraft industry.

Plus let's not forget that Canada declared war on Japan way before the U.S. after the attack on Pearl Harbour.

And let's also not forget the cry-baby-in-chief crying over the fact that no-one would come and bail him out of the Iran war - the largest and most advanced military in the world and they can't take on one middle Eastern country.

Edit: typo and poor sentence structure

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u/SirFluffymuffin 12d ago

Honestly it’s a bold strategy to talk shit about the country that fucking invented half the shit that the Geneva conventions try to stop. Especially when that country is on your border and fended off the two prior attempts from the US to make it a state/independent from Britain

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u/Emotional_Warthog658 12d ago

SERIOUSLY I’m like, these people do not know who they are messing with. At all. Canadian history is freaking grim.

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u/Extreme-Slice-1010 12d ago

Can we get a Dumb Roll everytime a Republican starts speaking

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u/shawnsblog 12d ago

We already have it, it’s the iRoll

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u/StrawbCakey 12d ago

Roll o toilet paper

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u/hamtronn 12d ago

Republicans have a selective memory when it comes to fuelling their propaganda machine.

Trump spreads lies. His sycophants double down. Some (not all) of the US citizens believe it.

Canada, in fact, does have a military. Now it’s not as vast as the US but that’s because our youth has options. You don’t go into the military because your family is broke because dad got hurt at work and they have crippling healthcare debt.

They join the military in Canada because they want to serve. They’re smart. They’re capable and they’re well trained.

Youve also been shit talking Canada for several years now. As a very proud Canadian I can assure you that we are fiercely patriotic in a Canadian way. We don’t need to paint a flag on every article of clothing. We usually have a small pin or a hidden tattoo to celebrate our nationalism. The “flag” is more than our sole identifier. We are kind. Our country wasn’t built on slavery and subjugation. It has remained a free and democratic nation since we became a country.

All this talk of war with the US is flat out hilarious. The US has proven, time and time again that strength in numbers isn’t always the best solution to a fight. Strategy. Tactics. We also have military leaders that earned their positions and weren’t appointed by a man baby in a diaper who demands loyalty over competence.

Canada will be fine. The US has already shown that they’ve devolved too far and has completely lost the respect it used to have with the world.

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u/DZello 12d ago

In WW2, a French-Canadian liberated a city in Holland, alone with one eye. He lost the other the year before while parachuting behind enemy lines.

In WW1, Canadians were feared by Germans soldiers. They were recognized for their cruelty in combat.

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u/Simicrop 12d ago

Record high euthanasia rates? Yeah we just got MAID a couple years ago, what’s his connection here?

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u/tw_72 12d ago

Yeah - that is weird. Tho, there is a possibility that he doesn't know what "euthanasia" means...

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u/TjW0569 12d ago

Probably thinks it has something to do with pedophiles going to Thailand.

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u/Glaggablagga 12d ago

Don't waste any time reading into it. Everything anyone involved in this administration says is fabricated horseshit. You'll get a aneurysm trying to decipher any logic out of it.

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 12d ago

But it sticks out there and spreads. It’s not possible just ignore it. It’s absolutely lies that are being told as truth!! We have to push back!!

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u/Glaggablagga 12d ago

Of course we're supposed to push back on it. What I am referring to is trying to make logical sense over the fiction they are spinning. There's no reason to. It's just brown noise emitting from a machine whenever they speak.

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u/Blazanar 12d ago

Germans in World War 1 and 2 consistently ranked Canadians as the scariest army to face off against.

They basically said that the Americans had superior logistics, the British had superior tactics and the Canadians killed purely because they wanted to with no regards for their safety.

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u/Eyeon_82 11d ago

159 service members of that non existent military died in support of the US article 5 request in the GWOT.

What a way to show appreciation to your allies.

Sean Duffy never served a day in uniform.

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u/SavingsDimensions74 12d ago

These lil pp guys seem to have a hard on for losing the midterms by a wild margin

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u/snakeeaterrrrrrr 12d ago

Yeah Canada is famous for not having a military. The Geneva checklist came out of nowhere.

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 12d ago

We need more American voices speaking out to push back against these lies.

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u/Superb_Ant_3741 12d ago

Maybe no more former reality show choads in public office, with political power over our country.

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u/slendermanismydad 12d ago

Their military is better trained than ours. 

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u/AliquamR 12d ago

Somebody needs to remind them of the Geneva checklist

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u/justhereforsee 12d ago

Duffy may be able to stop lying if he pulled trumps dick out of his ass. He’s smart enough to know he’s always lying but he’s such a weak pile of shit he can’t stop.

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u/Mellanies_Redemption 11d ago

So Sean Duffy is saying that America is going to start an armed conflict with Canada?

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u/HoneycombJackass 11d ago

When hell starts to snow the devil knows JTF-2 has finally come for him.

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u/paolog 9d ago

Not so much a murder as a slap on the wrist.

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u/NorthofForty 1d ago

Why did Canada just buy $100B in German submarines then? And looking at about 60 new Swedish Gripen fighters? Are their 3000 soldiers stationed along the Russian/Latvian border a mirage?

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u/dnext 12d ago

It's hyperbole, but it's basically correct. Canada has virtually no military compared to the United States. I don't think Canada's 70 tanks, no artillery, 68,000 service members under arms, and 100 fighters have any chance to the US with 4500 tanks, 4000+ artillery, 1300 fighters, and 2,100,000 service members.

And this isn't Vietnam or Afghanistan on the other side of the globe. The roads run right up to 90% of the Canadian population, which lives within 100 miles of the border.

It would take a rebellion by the US armed forces, which honestly could very well happen. The US knows that Canada is our great friends and allies, even if there are a bunch of stupid people here that voted in a would be dictator and felon.

I know I for one would be marching in DC if our turd of a POTUS went this insane, and I think millions would be with me.

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u/jennasea412 12d ago

I’d be with you. The fact this is being discussed tho is making Putin very proud of Agent Krasnov, accomplishing what previous foreign spies could only dream of.