Canada

I'm more concerned about the neighbor that has verbally expressed a desire to use economic means to pressure Canada into agreeing to be annexed only to become a territory with no representation while they've also enacted a decades long propaganda campaign to destabilize one of our most resource rich regions with pro-separatist messaging? If Canada is the Ukraine, then Alberta is Crimea in 2014 and Russia is the United States, bro.

The US has viewed Canada as America's rightful property since 1775. Russia of course interested in on the Arctic seaways that are going to open up in the coming decades, but Canada 's greatest threat always has, and will continue to be, its Southern neighbor. Russia won't need anything from the Northwest Territory or Nunavut for the same reason that the UK isn't horribly concerned with shipping lanes off the coast of Norway.

I don’t think the US would allow that to happen, not because they are our allies, but because when push comes to shove, they think of Canada as within their area of influence.

This is supported by the fact that they have Alaska there, which is very, very close to Russia.

Letting Russia chew through Europe would mean EU has less influence in global politics, that’s not really a factor with Canada.

What I mean is that we should be on guard but imo US will always be a greater threat to our sovereignty than Russia, as the latter already has undisputed partial access to the arctic but the US does not.

Yeah sure. Russia will decide to attack us before the former URSS entities. This article is just propaganda. I guess to push us to the 5% of GDP Trumo want for us instead of assessing the right percentage for our situation

Don't even need to read one paragraph down before being able to correctly guess this is another propaganda piece pushed by Scotty Sockpuppet.

No and this is propaganda bullshit

Just today, Russia's state-controlled propaganda agency TASS cited Alexander Moiseev, the head of the Russian Navy, who said that, according to him, NATO countries have significantly stepped up their spying activities in the Arctic.

Moiseev was quoted as saying that anti-submarine aircraft based in Iceland had become much more active, a reference TASS said to U.S., British and Canadian surveillance planes.

Moiseev, who also spoke of NATO plans to deploy strategic surveillance drones in Finland, was cited as saying that NATO’s aim was to contain Russian activities in the Arctic.

So the U.S. may be a threat, but so is Russia. And don't forget China which is seeking access to the Arctic as well.

The new Trump Doctrine national security strategy document (the same one that attacks Europe for being too woke) is all about how the Western Hemisphere is theirs and does not identify Russia as a US adversary. Corollary: we already have a pimp.

No, they won't. Russia won't risk going to war with NATO (mentioned in the article). Now if they try the "grey-zone" tactics, who's to say they're not already doing that with Canada and many other countries..

Russia is far down the list of countries most likely to invade Canada.

if FNV has taught me anything, the supply lines through the arctic will basically make this impossible.

I'm not worries about Russia because they are digging a huge hole in Ukraine. Who are they going to use to attack Canada? They're even scraping North Korea for bodies in Ukraine.

They can barely keep supply lines open for an attack on a country next door to them. How are they going to feed a supply line on the other side of the planet?

They could nuke us, but to what end?

Maybe 10 years ago I might have thought they could have done damage, but seeing them in Ukraine just shows they don't have the talent or the infrastructure for an attack of that size. Canada is a huge country.

I'm not worried about the US because Trump is pushing out all the intelligent people and bringing in minions who study cocksuckery. In a year all the talent will have left the military. Even a few months ago they couldn't even manage to bomb known positions of reactors in Iran. They don't understand what would be involved in a land war with a neighbour who looks and sounds just like them. Not to mention probably more than half the US wouldn't support an invasion of Canada. Most of the would wouldn't support it.

Yeah, it would be a huge mess but it's a mess that would tear their country apart and result in crippling sanctions from the world.

Trump's administration is incredibly stupid, but I think enough of them realize this.