How do you know that your country won't be invaded, or cannot be invaded?

[Thief]

I can not speak for America and how things are there now. Some are happy with new president some are not as it look from outside

too bad you can't see it more closely

omg

 

[Thief]

 

[Spirit of Light]

too bad you can't see it more closely

omg

I cant say i have any plan to go there at any time soon

 

[Kooky]

The trick is for a country to be so insignificant that invading would be more trouble than just leaving things as they are.

 

[Kooky]

and as a possiblity.....you have armed yourself accordingly?

I certainly have!

 

[Thief]

I certainly have!

ooooooh.....I want one

was it pricey?

 

[Augustus]

William the Conqueror displaced the entire ruling class, and imposed his own system of government. He and his successors built chains of castles up and down the country to establish Norman authority. William of Orange did nothing like that; not even close.

But he did land a foreign army on British soil because he thought seizing the British crown would help him in the Dutch war against France. He then proceeded to use this army to forcibly replace the head of state with himself.

Wouldn't you agree it takes a pretty significant redefinition of 'invasion' to make this 'not an invasion'?

 

[metis]

I worry about Canadian invasion forces crossing over the border in a war against America. I live in Minnesota, so I'm not far from where the front line of fighting will be, when fishing rights disputes between our countries escalates into all out armed conflict.

Oh, don't worry as Tim Horton's donuts are not lethal unless you eat them.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Why worry about something that has almost no chance to happen?

That's when those type of things seem to happen. When people get over complacent and overconfident.

 

[Spirit of Light]

That's when those type of things seem to happen. When people get over complacent and overconfident.

I can not speak for Norway as a nation, but personally i have no enemies in this world, so i do not worry about what others would want from me, or those who wish to harm me.

 

[RestlessSoul]

and YES.....the invasion of America's southern border......

IS AN INVASION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wake up

people

It's not though, is it? It's desperate people fleeing poverty and hopelessness. The same as the refugees washing up every day in Mediterranean Europe. Thinking of these people as invaders isn't really very helpful.

They're not going to stop coming no matter how high you build that wall btw. The problem is real enough, and it's world wide. It's probably time the international community came up with some coherent solutions; not sure what those might be, but demonising the desperate is a dead end imo.

 

[Valjean]

South Vietnam?

No, just Vietnam. Despite more than a decade of effort, and the military might of both France and the US, a unified, independent Vietnam emerged, in the end.

 

[Valjean]

Why worry about something that has almost no chance to happen?

Excellent point!
Why spend more on a military than any dozen other nations on Earth, when the only existential threat to the US is from "enemies domestic?"

 

[Spirit of Light]

Excellent point!
Why spend more on a military than any dozen other nations on Earth, when the only existential threat to the US is from "enemies domestic?"

I am not from America so i can not speak for what your government should or should not do.

 

[RestlessSoul]

But he did land a foreign army on British soil because he thought seizing the British crown would help him in the Dutch war against France. He then proceeded to use this army to forcibly replace the head of state with himself.

Wouldn't you agree it takes a pretty significant redefinition of 'invasion' to make this 'not an invasion'?

I’m gonna concede defeat here mate. You sound better informed on the subject of the Glorious Revolution than I am.

 

[Bouan Philippe]

Most countries in Europe are part of the NATO alliance, so if one country is invaded, all will (theoretically) declare war on the invading nation.

All will declare war on Turkey if Turkey invaded Greece, although they are still a part of NATO?

 

[RestlessSoul]

All will declare war on Turkey if Turkey invaded Greece, although they are still a part of NATO?

Turkey isn’t going to invade Greece

 

[Bouan Philippe]

and YES.....the invasion of America's southern border......

IS AN INVASION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wake up

people

Could the idea of an invasion be null and void by forming a political union between Mexico and the US?

 

[Bouan Philippe]

Turkey isn’t going to invade Greece

I'm just saying hypothetically, would the rest of NATO attack Turkey if Turkey were to attack Greece?

Does the Charter of NATO itself afford a collective response by the organisation against another member?

 

[Stevicus]

All will declare war on Turkey if Turkey invaded Greece, although they are still a part of NATO?

If that ever happened, they'd probably have to have a conference among all the NATO members. If Turkey invades Greece, they would be engaging in aggressive warfare.