‘The Globe & Mail uncovered that the Canadian military has been modeling what an American invasion might look like… So, what are the broad strokes of Canada stopping a southern invasion? We can’t. Within hours, American military superiority would crush any resistance.

However, occupying Canada becomes the real problem. Canada is massive. No nation has the numbers to dominate and hold it sustainably. Even if the government surrendered, military and civilian resistance could disappear into the wilderness or rural areas where hunting them down would prove difficult. The CAF model suggests Canadian forces could continue fighting using ‘unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military or armed civilians would resort to ambushes, sabotage, drone warfare or hit-and-run tactics.’ Sound familiar? Think Taliban in Afghanistan or Vietcong in the 1960s and 1970s. Hit-and-run attacks, IEDs, blending into the civilian population—tactics that proved nightmarish to counter. You can’t measure success or predict where the next ambush comes from.

With NATO countries sending troops to Greenland to counter Trump’s annexation threats, other formerly friendly nations are reconsidering what to do if America comes knocking.…’ (Séamus Bellamy via Boing Boing)

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Here’s a cool website you should check out if you love astronomy and want to see what the Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes are looking at right now (or close enough). “Space Telescope Live“ is a web application originally developed in 2016 for Hubble updates. It now includes images from both telescopes, giving us access to their past, current, and upcoming observations.…’ (Jennifer Sandlin via Boing Boing)

Interview with Henry Farrell, a professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins University, who recently wrote an op-ed for the New York Times titled “Europe Has a Bazooka. Time to Use It:” 

‘…Clearly there has been some real sense that there is a coalition which is engaging against this measure, and that coalition is sufficiently credible that the United States has something to worry about… It really does look like a climbdown disguised as a declaration of enormous victory. The fact that this is happening through Rutte and through NATO rather than, for example, through direct negotiations with Denmark, suggests that what is going to happen is that we’re going to get some kind of agreement on security in the Arctic region, which everybody is more or less on the same page on and Trump will declare this a glorious victory over Greenland and then move on.…’ (via Vox)