“Looking at the sheer size of the American military, many people might believe that Trump would enjoy an easy victory,” Dr. Ahmad wrote in
a widely circulated article.
That analysis is dead wrong, she says, because the result would not be determined by a fight between conventional armies.
“Rather, a military invasion of Canada would trigger a decades-long violent resistance, which would ultimately destroy the United States.
“Trump is delusional if he believes that 40 million Canadians will passively accept conquest without resistance.
“That decision would set in motion an unstoppable cycle of violence. Even if we imagine a scenario in which the Canadian government unconditionally surrenders, a fight would ensue on the streets.
“Even if one per cent of all resisting Canadians engaged in armed insurrection, that would constitute a 400,000-person insurgency, nearly 10 times the size of the Taliban at the start of the Afghan war.”
She states the obvious fact that Canada’s vast territory would be impossible to cover and control, no matter how many troops the U.S. sent.
Canadian Forces loyalists would likely mobilize civilian recruits into guerrilla groups “that could strike, retreat into the wilderness and blend back into the local communities that support them.”