As I said, too many morons like to talk about manpower. The thing is, manpower means exactly nothing when they don’t have supplies or transportation. The US military is quite good at using force multipliers. Once all of the infrastructure is blown up, those million troops on the other side of the ocean are useless, as are the 40 million unarmed civilians sitting less than 100 miles from the US border.
Most on the left know nothing about warfare or anything, really. That doesn’t mean all of them are clueless, but the vast majority are. They have no idea what such a war would mean.
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Uncle Son · January 24, 2026 at 10:10 am
I am reminded of the saying that a good general studies strategy while a great general studies logistics.
Fishlaw · January 24, 2026 at 10:34 am
Woooooo, 15 F–that’s long sleeve flannel shirt weather where I live in Northern Wisconsin. We are at – 21 F actual temperature. I don’t get the significance of 40,000,000 canucks without guns. In any event, their govt is trying to take the guns of those who are armed.
As Adm Yamamoto said, if you invade the continental US, you would find a rifle behind every tree.
Steve S6 · January 24, 2026 at 11:37 am
Reporter’s probably in front of a green screen in a studio.
Earl Harding · January 24, 2026 at 11:52 am
The most terrifying thing about the military is the ability to deploy a burger king to any corner of the world in under 24 hours. If you don’t understand why that’s terrifying, you don’t understand anything about conflict.
Sardaukar · January 24, 2026 at 1:20 pm
I can throw rocks into Canada from my house. This is just anecdotal, but most Canucks I know would love it if we invaded and saved them from Labour and their Chicom masters.
What will be interesting is what will Ottawa do if Alberta votes to leave Canada later this year and declares itself an independent country.
https://edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/12/16/alberta-separatists-new-petition-referendum-vote/
Treefarmer · January 24, 2026 at 2:44 pm
Very true, but like us, you must live in a part of the US that borders either Eastern BC, Alberta, or maybe western Saskatchewan. I don’t think Canada will let Alberta go anywhere. Without Alberta’s contribution th GDP, Canada immediatley goes 3rd world economy.
Old Maine Farmer · January 24, 2026 at 1:23 pm
Hilarious! It was colder here this morning (and very windy) doing farm chores here in northern Maine, and I had a pair of wallymart sweatpants and sweatshirt and a Carhardt on.
Divemedic · January 24, 2026 at 1:34 pm
I know. We have a cabin not far from Lincoln.
Old Maine Farmer · January 24, 2026 at 3:40 pm
Oh, that’s only about 50 or 60 miles south of us.
Honk Honk · January 24, 2026 at 2:10 pm
You need trained manpower to operate the wunderwaffen.
Grumpy51 · January 24, 2026 at 3:40 pm
Just so I’m understanding — it’s colder in N TX than in Greenland?? Hmmmm, OK. (yes, I understand that Greenland will be cold later this week while N TX warms back up. still…. Can’t get over the humor)
hh475 · January 24, 2026 at 5:50 pm
Speaking of force multipliers, when I was a medical student, I worked summers as a programmer back in the last days when mainframes and punched cards dominated. You would punch your cards and submit them to the “computer operator” who wold feed them into the computer and give you the output as a printout. The folk with the big contracts and grants got their stuff run in the daytime, while us little folk would work at night and submit our cards between midnight and 5 am.
One of my fellow late night people was a guy working on his PhD in history. One night in 1979 or 1980, we were talking about politics and he said to me that the USSR would either start WWIII or collapse around 1989. I asked him why. He said that the USSR and the US were at not-quite parity in military strength, with the USSR having a slight edge. But… technology was changing things dramatically. The new armor we were putting in the Fulda Gap had a kill ratio of tens of USSR tanks to one US tank. That kill ratio was only going to get better. Eventually, the massive advantage in the number of tanks would mean nothing. Russia was losing the information war and losing it rapidly. At that time, for instance, road maps were consicered strategic sectrets in the USSR. Every mimeograph machine had to have a federal license and every copy of every document had to be recorded and accounted to the Party. And on and on. With that much suppression of information, technological advancement was difficult.
Eventually, he said, the USSR would lose its advantage. He figured it would happen at the end of the decade. At that point the USSR would have to make a choice. It would either have to start WWIII while it still had a small advantage, or it would have to undergo regime change.
Sure enough, that’s exactly what happened. Reagan’s SDI was nail in the technological ccoffiin. The USSR collapsed. The kill ratio of Abrams tanks versus the USSR T-72 was demonstrated in Desert Storm in the Battle of 73 Easting where the Iraqis lost 160 tanks, 180 personnel carriers, 12 major artillery pieces, and sundry other equipment while we lost one Bradley.
18C · February 2, 2026 at 12:25 am
Wasn’t common knowledge, but SADMs were cached for use in the Fulda Gap. Any kind of blitzkrieg would have been stopped in its tracks, with a Highway of Death to any and all support vehicles in the resulting traffic jam.
Anonymous · January 24, 2026 at 9:21 pm
> The most terrifying thing about the military is the ability to deploy a burger king to any corner of the world in under 24 hours. If you don’t understand why that’s terrifying, you don’t understand anything about conflict.
My former USMC son’s platoon would drive 100 miles across the desert in Iraq to go to the Taco Bell at the US Army base in northern Iraq.
Steve · January 25, 2026 at 6:18 am
If I were a Euro power, I think before I got too feisty, I’d make sure that my forces were immune to whatever it was that shut down Venezuela’s response. Jus’ sayin’.
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