Comment by incomingpain

The idea that China is going to ship 300 million troops to Canada seems absurd on its face. There is just no geopolitical scenario where that happens.

This is more about Canada having enough troops to contribute if NATO decides to intervene in a China-Taiwan war.

>China is strong, their standing army is probably 300 million and if they invaded canada. Our <100,000 CAF will be goners. Since they havent done it, they either dont want to or there's something external to canada protecting it. Either case, an unfounded threat.

China has zero modern real world combat experience though. they would get steam rolled in any peer to peer or near peer conflict imo.

> China is strong, their standing army is probably 300 million

Maybe 1% of that. Also, numbers are important, but so are equipment, training, and leadership.

> China is strong, their standing army is probably 300 million

You may want to check your facts:) The PLA is estimated to be about 3M poeple at the high end of estimates and probably closer to 2.5M people.

Which puts you at 100x too large:)

> China is strong, their standing army is probably 300 million and if they invaded canada. Our <100,000 CAF will be goners.

Having 300 million people and being able to move them across the Pacific Ocean are two very different things.

Yeah, China's building a lot of landing craft. Are those landing craft capable of a 10,000 mile voyage? I doubt it. Does China have a way of loading and launching those ships 100 miles from Canada? I doubt it.

TBH I think taking land is stupid, at least taking a lot of land is stupid because you are left with a huge cost and people who hate you. The US has already gone past that point and I doubt China wants to go back this route. Taiwan for sure, but the rest of the world? meh.

I wouldn't call Russia weak. They have their strengths, one of which is insensitivity to losses. They can grind 20000 soldiers to get a small town, and nobody cares. Also, total control over population, brainwashing the youth, military-oriented economy.

Also, Russia knows how to operate in Arctic, and has real combat experience that none of NATO countries have.

> To think they'd have a shadow of a chance against NATO is a joke.

Which NATO with what army? Do you think Bundeswehr is combat-ready? Is society in any NATO country (except Poland and Finland) ready to fight?

Russians will easily take Baltic countries, for example, is it NATO? Will NATO commit into full scale war with Russia over Estonia? They don't even have guts to block shadow fleet tankers and shoot russian drones over their own territory. Or forget doing something, they can't even stop buying russian oil and gas, because their population will pay more and be upset.

Ukraine stopped them like a bag of teeth would grind teeth of someone who decided to eat them. West is not Ukrainians, even after all these wake-up calls.