Francisca Sinn<p>“Take it from a military historian: The <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canadian</span></a> soldiers were formidable, as were the sailors who escorted convoys across the North Atlantic and the airmen who flew in the Battle of Britain and the air war over Germany. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>’s 44,000 dead represented a higher percentage of the population than America’s losses in the Second World War. Those who served were almost entirely volunteers.</p><p>Bottom line: It is not a good idea to invade Canada.”</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/us-canada-relations-trump/682046/?gift=YVn-52ho1I0oQ0frZLpB9DtEPYH_61ypxg_VT_60_7s&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/</span><span class="invisible">2025/03/us-canada-relations-trump/682046/?gift=YVn-52ho1I0oQ0frZLpB9DtEPYH_61ypxg_VT_60_7s&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/StrongAndFree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StrongAndFree</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Never51" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Never51</span></a></p>